The presidential election to be held on 26-28 March and all but certainly resulting in a second term for Abdel Fattah el Sisi will be the major event of 2018...
Attijariwafa Bank head Mohammed el Kettani revealed at the African Investment Forum in Sharm El Sheikh on 11 December which was hosted by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi that in the previous seven years Casablanca's biggest bank had invested over $1 billion in Africa...
Vol 58 No 23 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Piloting strategy for Libya he keeps in close touch with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi...
The approach of Egypt's presidential elections which are scheduled for April 2018 revealed a split among supporters of President Abdel Fattah el Sisi in the House of Representatives a chamber often described as the 'president's parliament'...
Da'ish fighters are a potent force in Libya in areas such as the Islamist fief of Dirna and in Egypt's Western Desert despite a wave of attacks from General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army and President Abdul Fattah el Sisi's air force (AC Vol 58 No 12 States of failure)...
Vol 58 No 12 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
A new gas production project due to start by the end of the year might relieve some of the gloom and President Abdel Fatah el Sisi's relentless glad-handing with regional leaders and his United States counterpart Donald Trump has helped to secure billions of aid dollars unavailable to any other African economy...
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el Sisi confirmed the attack which came just days after Da'ish in its latest massacre in Egypt killed nearly 30 Coptic Christians in Minya Province on 26 May...
President Abdel Fatah el Sisi an early supporter chaired unsuccessful talks in February between GNA representatives and Haftar's supporters in Tripoli...
This has been a welcome development for the government of President Abdel Fatah el Sisi as it offers some hope that the painful adjustment will eventually prove to have been worthwhile...
However there is little chance that such discontent will be translated into any meaningful challenge to President Abdel Fatah el Sisi's campaign for re-election for a second term in mid-2018...
Haftar already enjoys strong support from two other presidents Egypt's Abdel Fatah el Sisi and Russia's Vladimir Putin both of whom are close to Trump...