After the African Union's Peace & Security Commission gave the junta just 15 days to hand over executive power to civilians Egypt's President Abdul Fattah el Sisi convened another meeting of African leaders in clear contravention of AU statutes which extended the handover deadline to three months...
Some saw President Abdel Fattah el Sisi's 89% 'yes' vote in the referendum on extending his presidential term to six years from four and allowing him to stand for a further term in 2024 as evidence that Egypt is unlikely to follow the insurgent path of Algeria and Sudan...
' Faki Mahamat made the statement despite direct pressure from Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi to back off...
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Haftar met President Abdel Fattah el Sisi on 14 April...
Egypt's Abdel Fattah el Sisi who is also seeking to change the limits to his own term was hailed as 'a brother and a friend' during a state visit to Guinea in early April...
It has been a week of two halves for Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi...
The only exceptions have been Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi who warned that the demonstrations posed risks and French President Emmanuel Macron who hailed Bouteflika's decision not to run again as 'a new page in the development of Algerian democracy'...
Vol 60 No 5 |
- BURUNDI
- SOMALIA
Burundi sent Foreign Minister Ezechiel Nibigira to try to dissuade the new AU President Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi from going ahead with the withdrawal...
When middle-class activists in Cairo started to organise along similar lines against new economic policies and the security forces' vested interests President Abdel Fattah el Sisi banned the wearing of yellow jackets...
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However high rates of debt and inflation will continue to be a drag on its performance and there is little sign of any let-up in the harsh repression of political and civil liberties by President Abdel Fattah el Sisi who looks to be settling in for the long haul...
