Abdel Fattah Khalil el Sisi

Egypt is seeking Eritrea's help along with that of Uganda and South Sudan both of which President Abdel Fatah el Sisi visited in January to pressure Ethiopia to make concessions over the GERD which it believes could threaten Egypt's crucial irrigation and hydropower resources from the Nile (AC Vol 57 No 12 Dam provocations)...

Municipal elections are scheduled in 2017 but they are being overshadowed by preparations for the presidential election in mid-2018 in which the incumbent Abdel Fattah el Sisi is likely to seek a second term...

The financing plan dates back to July when President Abdel Fatah el Sisi launched a three-year strategy to raise US$21 billion from the IMF World Bank and bilateral donors to plug the deficit (AC Vol 57 No 8 Desperately seeking dollars)...

President Abdel Fatah el Sisi ceded the islands to Saudi Arabia during a state visit by King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al Saud in April...

The latest episode in the Red Sea islands saga has seen a judge make a ruling in open defiance of President Abdel Fatah el Sisi...

President Abdel Fatah el Sisi's guest signed economic aid agreements worth US$22 billion and Saudi business people accompanying him pledged to pour funds into Egyptian development schemes...

President Abdel Fattah el Sisi requested Prime Minister Sherif Ismail replace ten members of the cabinet on 23 March...

Cairo could provide useful support in Libya although there is discomfort – more in London and Washington than in Paris – that the authoritarian President Abdel Fatah el Sisi might make a difficult ally...

Arab donors on the other hand have been far more generous to President Abdel Fatah el Sisi's authoritarian revival in Egypt than to democratic Tunisia...

On 12 January 2015 in the run-up to Egypt's parliamentary elections President Abdel Fatah el Sisi invited the heads of 15 of the newly formed political parties to the Presidential Palace...