Abdel Fattah Khalil el Sisi

Egypt's President Abdel Fatah el Sisi Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Sudan's President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir signed a declaration of principles in Khartoum on 23 March ostensibly resolving all conflict...

This has generally been interpreted as part of a wider campaign based on the desire of Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el Sisi and Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahayan to destroy the Muslim Brotherhood as a political force (AC Vol 54 No 17 High stakes in the Sinai fight)...

On 30 January President Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi cut short his visit to the African Union summit in Ethiopia after jihadists killed 32 police and others in Sinai...

President Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi will appoint a further 27 members...

While official Algeria and its friends still talk of a commitment to pluralist politics and civilian presidents some officers are impressed by the career of officer-turned-President Abdel Fatah el Sisi in Egypt...

While President Abdel Fatah el Sisi and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces handle substantial foreign affairs matters Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is usually left with little to do but present an amiable public face to fend off rising criticism of human rights abuses...

However Egypt's official photograph of Omer's encounter with President Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi showed the pair beneath a large map depicting the disputed enclave of Halaib as belonging to Egypt...

However by the time his successor Field Marshal Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi received United States Secretary of State John Kerry on 13 October top of the agenda was US President Barack Obama's effort to build a coalition against Islamic State in Iraq and Shams/Levant (ISIS/ISIL also known as Da'ish or IS)...

In an address to the annual Euromoney Egypt conference in Cairo on 16 September President Abdel Fatah el Sisi set out his stall for foreign investors highlighting his government's moves to cut the national deficit and bring in a new investment law to protect deals between government and the private sector from third-party legal challenges...