President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's government hopes this year to build on the stabilisation of Egypt's macro-economy over the past three years to deliver tangible improvements to living standards through stepped up investment in social sectors and infrastructure...
The meeting follows Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's request to President Donald Trump to mediate in the dispute but Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry insists the talks cannot be called 'mediation' because Ethiopia will merely be reasserting its earlier position...
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This policy is being pushed by officers who admire Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's approach to promoting his army's extensive economic interests as well as his authoritarianism...
Trump's 15 April phone-call to the general instigated by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi and his own former National Security Adviser John Bolton was widely suspected as ushering in a switch in US support from the internationally recognised GNA led by Serraj and based in Tripoli to Haftar especially as it came less than a fortnight after the general had spurned international plans for an all-Libya peace conference and launched his attack on Tripoli...
Egyptians have been glued to a series of sensational videos which claim to detail high-level corruption by President Abdel Fattah el Sisi and the Egyptian armed forces...
Interim President Abdelkader Bensalah represented Algeria at the Afcon final in Cairo – where President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's model of authoritarian rule is favoured by some but not all of the officer corps that have survived recent culls in Algiers...
Nile alliesHaving overthrown the late MB President Mohammed Morsi Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el Sisi is a committed MBZ ally...
Vol 60 No 15 |
- FRANCE
- SAHEL
Development in the Sahel will be a major theme of the G7 summit in Biarritz on 24-26 August to which Macron has invited Burkina's President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré as current chair of the G5 and other African presidents: Senegal's Macky Sall Rwanda's Paul Kagame South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa the current African Union chair Abdel Fattah el Sisi and the AU commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat...
President Abdel Fattah el Sisi has repeatedly promised to deal with Islamic State's affiliate in the Sinai peninsula Wilayat Sina (WS-Sinai province) but without any decisive blows...