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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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
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	     Of these  Egypt's vote showed the weight of US military aid to President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's government and warmer relations with France  trumped its coordination with Moscow over Libya policy and grain imports...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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            Vol 63 No 6 | 
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	     President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's government in Egypt appears the most vulnerable in the first wave of economic shocks  closely followed by its ally  Gen Abdel Fattah al Burhan's junta in Sudan (AC Vol 63 No 5  Alliances come under heavy fire  How Putin revived Moscow's reach & Moscow invasion strains bilateral ties)...
	 
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