Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo aka 'Hemeti' flew to Cairo to meet President Abdel Fattah el Sisi...
The high profile given to the negotiations reflects the close ties between Presidents Donald Trump and Egypt's Abdel Fattah el Sisi...
Meanwhile a younger leadership may eventually take over the mantle of le pouvoir but whether they understand the limitations of rule by the Deep State is questionable; many officers are said to admire Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi and other autocrats...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi has been a firm backer of Haftar and a vehement opponent of Muslim Brotherhood ideology – and thus Turkish influence – throughout the region...
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...