Egyptian journalist Shaimaa Adel has arrived in Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, where President Mohamed Morsy is attending the African Summit. She is expected to return to Cairo with him on the presidential plane.
Adel was released hours after a meeting between Morsy and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who promised on Sunday to release her.
Morsy’s Facebook page said Monday that officials from the presidential office met Adel, and announced that she would return to Egypt with the president.
The Sudanese Embassy in Cairo said on Sunday that Bashir ordered the authorities in question to release Adel and let her return back to her country upon Morsy’s request, during a meeting for the two presidents on the sidelines of the African Union Summit held in Addis Ababa.
Adel, a reporter with the privately owned Egyptian daily Al-Watan, was arrested in Khartoum while covering student protests against inflation and austerity measures.
Adel, 25, had previously worked at Al-Masry Al-Youm, where she covered the revolts of the Arab Spring. The reporter had also covered the Libyan uprising from Tripoli, and was injured while covering the Syrian uprising.
Adel is the second Egyptian reporter to be arrested while covering protests in Sudan. Last month, Sudanese authorities released Salma ElWardany, an Egyptian reporter working for Bloomberg news.
