After failing to moderate Bashir into accepting a secular decentralized or confederate Sudan, Egypt, a key Arab player concerned about the stability of its southern border, has come to accept the inevitability of secession – so long as the new state lines up with it on the issue of the Nile’s waters.
在无法说服巴希尔接受世俗分权或联邦制苏丹后，埃及这个重要的阿拉伯国家出于对其南部边境稳定的关注，已经慢慢接受了南苏丹独立不可避免的理念——只要新独立的国家在尼罗河问题上能与埃及达成一致。