● The Halayeb Triangle is an area of disputed land located on the border between Egypt and Sudan . ● This land covers an area of 7,945 square miles. ● There is a political boundary that was set in 1899 between Egypt and Sudan. There is another administrative boundary that was set in 1902. ● The area between the difference of two boundaries is disputed. Egypt used to have control over this area in the mid-1990s. Later, there have been several attempts by Sudanese to capture the land. ● Egypt has also rejected Sudan’s requests to resort to international arbitration and insists that the land belongs to Egypt. ● The government of Sudan has formally requested the UN Security Council to keep the Halayeb Triangle dispute on the council’s agenda for this year. ● Egypt capital- Cairo ● Currency- Egyptian pound ● Sudan capital- Khartoum ● Currency- Sudanese pound