[1] The same month, Yemane Ghebremeskel, a senior adviser to Isaias, commented that Eritrea hoped the January 2011 referendum would lead to the unity of Sudan.

[7] In 2012, the Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, and his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir, held talks in Asmara on a number of bilateral issues of mutual concern to the two East African countries.

Sudan and Eritrea agreed to abolish entry visa requirements, opening their common borders for free movement of both nationals.

It was also reported that the Sudanese Electricity Company planned to supply a 45-kilometre (28 mi) power line from Kassala to the Eritrean town of Teseney.

In conversation with Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council, he raised regional issues and the long-time dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.