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Vol 63 No 23 |
- EGYPT
- COP27
The arrival of thousands of political leaders diplomats journalists and a few carefully screened activists in Sharm el Sheikh for the UN COP27 Climate Summit on 6-18 November could boost Egypt's international standing but will shine a spotlight on the country's deep inequalities and repression under President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's government (AC Vol 63 No 1 Sisi seeks security)...
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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's hopes of resolving what he called the 'divergences and disagreements' at the Arab summit in Algiers on1-2 November were disappointed but he secured a strong turn out of North African presidents including Egypt's Abdel Fattah el Sisi and Tunisia's Kaïs Saïed...
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As the second biggest recipient of United States' military aid after Israel Egypt remains a strategic priority for Washington despite growing calls from human rights campaigners for a tougher against President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's hard line regime...
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When Hassan Sheikh visited Cairo on 25 July President Abdel Fattah el Sisi tried to yoke him to Egypt's side of the dispute about the GERD...
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France's President Emmanuel Macron got a head start by inviting his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el Sisi to the Elysée Palace in Paris for an unpublicised tête à tête on 22 July...
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi has become hostile too...
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi sent his condolences for the Sudanese deaths on 27 June and Saudi Arabia criticised Ethiopia's stance...
In the case of Egypt's President Abdel Fatteh el Sisi who received a Commission delegation in Cairo last week led by enlargement commissioner Olivér Várhelyi that could include demands for EU support for his country's position on the 'existential issue' of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on which talks with Ethiopia and Sudan have been deadlocked for years...
Only in Cairo did he find sympathy from his counterpart President Abdel Fattah el Sisi...
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In Egypt President Abdel Fattah el Sisi is also stepping up energy cooperation with Europe...
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This is despite the Fund noting that President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's government has failed to restructure the economy in which the military and state sector continue to constrain private companies...