Vol 66 No 15 |
- ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
Cairo's strengthened ties with Djibouti underscored by President Abdel Fattah el Sisi visiting in April signals an alignment to control Red Sea and Gulf of Aden access...
And President Abdel Fattah el Sisi cannot afford to lose Haftar's support when regional alliances are becoming more fluid...
The fighting in the triangle of land between Libya Sudan and Egypt has become so intense with the RSF making key strategic gains that President Abdel Fattah el Sisi brought Haftar and Burhan together for a secret meeting in Cairo on the evening of 30 June the London-based Middle East Eye reported...
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In response to the MoU Somalia cosied up to Egypt's Abdel Fattah el Sisi receiving military planes and a steady flow of weapons from Cairo...
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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...