The secretary-general of Sudan's Popular Conference Party, Hassan al-Turabi, arrived in Cairo yesterday after 30 years of banishment. Al-Turabi was barred entry to Egypt in 1995, when the then-Mubarak regime accused him of planning an assassination plot against Mubarak in Addis Ababa. Al-Turabi denies the assassination attempt. Al-Turabi arrived with a Sudanese delegation from the Popular Conference Party and Almahboub Abdelsalam, the official party spokesman. He will meet with presidential candidates Amr Moussa, Mohamed el-Baradei and Ayman Nour to discuss the strengthening of relations between Sudan and Egypt. Al-Turabi will meet Sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and Mohamed Badie, the general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood. He'll also meet the chairmen of other Egyptian political parties. Al-Turabi is slated to deliver a lecture at the Institute of African Research and Studies at Cairo University, followed by a conversation with the political elite at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. Arabic here.