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Vol 65 No 25 |
- HORN OF AFRICA
Somalia has edged closer to Egypt which has quarrelled with Ethiopia for years over Addis Ababa's construction of a vast hydro dam on the Nile River striking a military deal with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi which has resulted in military aircraft and weaponry arriving in Mogadishu...
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' Other leaders such as South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa Egypt's Abdel Fattah el Sisi and Kenya's William Ruto offered bouquets and hopes for more US engagement...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa demanded reform of the World Trade Organization and the ‘recalibration of trade rules to enable industrialisation' while his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el Sisi aimed his fire at the failings of the multilateral financial institutions...
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Egypt may need to renegotiate its US$8 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund as it faces the costs of regional instability President Abdel Fattah el Sisi has warned...
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That means Somalia has won the backing of both Cairo and Ankara two of the most powerful states in the region following the rapprochement between Presidents Abdel Fattah el Sisi and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
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They may have calculated they have more to lose by alienating Egypt: given the aid they have poured into President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's government in and their multi-billion migration pact deals with Cairo...
Europe's energy conglomerates queued up to sign a series of multi-billion euro deals with the Egyptian government on 29 and 30 June as President Abdel Fattah el Sisi continues to reap rewards from the regional shockwaves caused by the Gaza war and the international community's determination for Egypt to avoid economic crisis...
Little of the $57bn support is contingent on President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's government making progress on cutting levels of grand corruption or patronage payments to the military's special economic interests...
MBZ and MBS supported General Abdel Fattah el Sisi in Egypt and funded his coup against President Mohamed Morsi (a Muslim Brother) in 2013...
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Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi buffeted by his country's deepening economic travails and the regional shockwaves of Israel's war in Gaza is recalibrating policy on Sudan's war...