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4bn aid package for President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's government of which around €5bn is in the form of direct budget support concessional finance and grants (AC Vol 65 No 7 Fearing a regional meltdown Brussels pays Egypt $7...
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Also in this issue ALGERIA IN 2026: Oil industry exuberancePublicly bullish about new oil and gas investment political elites are nervous about losing public opinion EGYPT IN 2026: Would-be Pharoah builds big at the pyramidsEconomic woes threaten to collapse President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's new castles built on sand MOROCCO IN 2026: Questions for the ‘builder king'Elections and Western Sahara will preoccupy minds in Rabat TUNISIA IN 2026: Saïed's reinforces personal rule and defies the IMFStand-offs with Western lenders leave the president reliant on regional banks and the Gulf ...
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Egypt is mired in geopolitical crises and financial deficits – underwritten by Gulf states that increasingly want to turn a profit for their dollars from an economy that is failing to deliver the revenues President Abdel Fattah el Sisi needs to finance his huge ambitions or to meet many of the needs of its 100-million-plus population (Dispatches 10/11/25 Doha pledges $30bn for Sisi's tourism project)...
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi have put the hard sell on Sudan Armed Forces leader Abdel Fattah al Burhan to agree to peace talks brokered by Washington and Riyadh to end the two-year civil war...
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Days after EU leaders rolled out the red carpet for Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi with whom the EU has a €7...
On 15 October Burhan had a difficult encounter Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi in Cairo as the Sudan Armed Forces' military position continued to deteriorate especially in the west...
We hear that President Abdel Fattah el Sisi had asked Haftar not to sign the MoU with Turkey and to appease Greece with some investment opportunities...
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President Abdel Fattah el Sisi is hoping to use a two-day bilateral summit with the European Union starting on 22 October to move closer to concluding a debt-swap deal with creditors before the end of 2025...
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The first is that Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi has abandoned his position that the SAF is the sole legitimate force in Sudan and generals should control its post-war transition...
President Abdel Fattah el Sisi refuses to host Gaza residents in Egypt...
Today Egypt under President Abdel Fattah el Sisi is one of the sternest opponents of Ethiopia's dam...