Abdel Fattah Khalil el Sisi

The price increases came as no surprise as cutting energy subsidies has been one of the main topics of economic policy debate for decades and the Finance Minister Hani Kadri Dimian had announced in mid-June that he had sharply cut the allocation for these subsidies so as to comply with the instructions from President Abdel Fatah el Sisi to reduce the budget deficit for the financial year 2014/15 which started on 1 July...

Since Haftar ordered the remnants of the Libyan Air Force to strike Islamist bases in the east in May attempts have been made to characterise him as the equivalent of Egypt's President Abdul Fatah Khalil el Sisi who masterminded the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood government and has since become the standard bearer for anti-Islamist politics in North Africa and beyond...

Egypt's judges have been sentencing convicted prisoners to death on a massive scale since Field Marshal Abdel Fatah el Sisi overthrew President Mohamed Mursi last June...

Egypt's President Abdel Fatah el Sisi was due to meet Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Malabo Equatorial Guinea on 26 June to try to resolve their differences over the Nile...

With the formalities of yesterday's presidential inauguration behind him Field Marshal Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi's key new challenge is to ensure that he wins a solid majority in general elections due in September or October...

President Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi who was elected last week with 96% of the vote on a 47% turn out is trying to establish his credibility in a deeply polarised country...

Tension is still rising between Khartoum and Cairo as Egypt's new leader President Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi sets out his strategic priorities...

Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi was declaring that he had served with Haftar in the 1973 war against Israel and that the Libyan was his 'mentor'...

Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi will start his presidency knowing that a significant proportion of the public has faith in his pledge to bring security and eventual prosperity through patriotism and hard work (AC Vol 55 No 8 El Sisi's spring offensive)...

For Egypt's Defence Minister and now leading presidential candidate General Abdel Fatah Khalil el Sisi this raises the spectre of Sudan trying to destabilise Egypt a return to the antagonism of two decades ago...