Washington may also find itself a broker in the fractious relations between Ethiopia and Egypt whose leader Abdel Fatah el Sisi is a keen Trump-booster in the region...
When President Abdel Fattah el Sisi was sworn in for a second term on 2 June a 21-gun salute rang out in front of parliament to mark the occasion...
Vol 59 No 12 |
- ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
Strategically it makes more sense for President Abdel Fatah el Sisi to keep using a hostile Eritrea as a means to exert pressure on Addis Ababa over the dam (AC Vol 58 No 3 Eritrea's unsettling alliance)...
In the week after Abdel Fattah el Sisi secured a second term as President in an election without any credible rival candidates a team from the Ministry of Finance made a series of presentations to European bond investors that culminated in a heavily oversubscribed issue of €2 billion in eight- and twelve-year securities...
His talks with President Abdel Fattah el Sisi are reported to have centred on economic ties and what were described as 'regional and international topics of mutual importance'...
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Vol 59 No 2 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Many investors reckon that President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's authoritarian style will allow him to push through tough reforms even if the military's grip on the treasury through state subsidies is unlikely to slip...
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President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's office announced the departure of Khaled Fawzy as head of the General Intelligence Service (GIS) on 18 January the day before the President formally declared his intention to stand in the presidential election at the end of March...
The presidential election to be held on 26-28 March and all but certainly resulting in a second term for Abdel Fattah el Sisi will be the major event of 2018...
Attijariwafa Bank head Mohammed el Kettani revealed at the African Investment Forum in Sharm El Sheikh on 11 December which was hosted by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi that in the previous seven years Casablanca's biggest bank had invested over $1 billion in Africa...