CAIRO: An Egyptian consulate in Juba, Sudan, is not the place to be, according to Mohamed Gharib, the embassy's media officer, who reported on Saturday that Counselor Ayman Kadi's home was victim to robbery. According to Gharib, Kadi's home was ransacked by a group of thieves, who stole a sum of money, a laptop and personal belongings. It was previously reported that the incident had occurred at the consulate itself, but these rumors were “untrue,” said Gharib. Gharib confirmed on Friday that the government of National Unity and the Government of South Sudan expressed their regret for the incident, indicating that the latter promised “full cooperation in this matter throughout the investigation by the security authorities in the government of the South, searching for the culprits and to uncover them as soon as possible.” It is the second robbery of its kind in two weeks, Egypt's al-Youm al-Saba'a reported. The newspaper stated that the group of thieves had broken the door down on Kadi's home, took the money, computer and personal items before leaving in a rush. It is unclear the motive for the attack or why the counselor had large amounts of American dollars lying around. Earlier, an Egyptian diplomat in Juba had his home burglared in similar fashion, the Egyptian newspaper reported a Sudanese diplomat as saying. The source pointed out that the consulate has taken legal action and has informed the Sudanese authorities in Khartoum and the government of South Sudan as well as the Federal Foreign Office, describing the incident as “unacceptable, especially after it became a phenomenon to attack some of the consulates, which became frequent in recent times during the campaign to collect arms in Juba.” Egypt has been instrumental and has taken on a key role in helping to de-arm Sudanese groups in the south in order to avoid a potential outbreak of violence as negotiations between the South Sudan government and the central government in Khartoum continue to see tensions rise. **reporting by Mohamed Abdel Salam BM
