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British Muslim Brotherhood Tour

16 November 2020

Richard Moore, chief of the UK secret intelligence service (MI6), visited Cairo on 9 November 2020, where he met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
He then traveled to Ankara on 11 November for talks with President Erdoğan’s spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, at the White Palace in Ankara. (...)

Egypt threatens to intervene militarily in Libya

22 June 2020

On 21 June 2020, after reviewing his troops, President-Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sissi said in a televised statement that a military intervention in support of the only elected Libyan authorities, those of the Tobruk Parliament, would be legitimate.
He explicitly threatened the al-Sarraj (...)

France put the pressure on Egypt keep its distance from Syria

7 February 2019

The daily newspaper, Al Hayat, has cited the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shukri as saying that the French President, Emmanuel Macron, probably put pressure on his Egyptian partner, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi.
It is likely that, due to this pressure, Egypt backed away from letting (...)

Collaboration between Egypt and Israel

9 January 2019

On 6 January 2018, the US television channel, CBS, broadcast an interview with Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi as part of their programme “60 minutes”, In this interview, President al-Sissi declared “that his army is working with Israel to fight terrorists in the North of Sinai”. (...)

The Silk Route will pass through Jordan, Egypt and Israel

19 October 2018

After the Daesh attack on the city of Palmyra, China renounced the traditional “silk route” (Bagdad, Palmyra, Damas-Tiro). An alternative trail had been envisaged, no longer across Syria but Turkey. This has also been abandoned.
During antiquity there was also a secondary route through Petra (...)

Remarks by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly

New York (USA) | 25 September 2018

Madame President,
I would like to congratulate you on assuming the presidency of the 73rd session of UnitedNations General Assembly, and to express myappreciation for the efforts of Mr. Miroslav Lajcak, the president of the former session.
I also commend you onyour choice ofthe theme of this (...)

Attacks on Christians in Egypt

7 September 2018

Monseigneur Makarios, the Copte Bishop of the Egyptian city, Al-Minya, has been accused by the Egyptian authorities of not speaking out in the wake of the growing number of attacks by Islamists on Christians.
Two weeks ago, several Islamists attacked the house of a Christian in Ezbet Zoltan (...)

Jared Kushner and the Palestinians’ « right to happiness »

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 26 June 2018

We were wrong to believe that the US project for the Middle East was a peace plan for Palestine. Despite the communications from the White House, this is not what President Trump is seeking. He is approaching this question from a radically different angle than that of his predecessors – not (...)

Egypt imposes conditions on lifting the siege of Gaza

22 June 2018

The US special envoys, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, arrived in Egypt after they had been received in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. At the same time, the cabinet of President al-Sissi announced that he would support a chapter of the US Peace Plan.
Cairo would lift the siege of Gaza if two (...)

Egypt contributes part of its own territory for Plan Neom

8 March 2018

On receiving the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed ben Salmane, the Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, announced that Egypt was joining the Saudi project Neom.
In October 2017, Saudi Arabia announced its wish to build a high-tech mega city, to be called Neom, targeting luxury tourism. The (...)

The Egypt/Sudan/Eritrea/Ethiopia crisis

6 February 2018

Egypt and Sudan are entangled in a number of conflicts:
The border between the two states has not been defined. The Halayeb region, occupied by Egypt since 2000, is still claimed by Sudan. Upon Egypt’s surrender of the Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi Arabia, in 2016, the kingdom reportedly (...)

39 years later, Riyadh recognizes the Camp David Agreements

19 June 2017

Acting in accordance with promise it gave on 11 April 2016, Egypt has finally returned the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia .
This act triggers an obligation on the part of Riyadh to respect the Camp David agreements under which ownership over these two small islands must not (...)

Daesh declares its intention to exterminate the Copts

21 February 2017

On Sunday 19 February, Daesh [released] a video, declaring its intention to exterminate all Christians in Egypt.
On 11 December 2016, an attack on the Copt cathedral, Saint-Marc, had caused the death of 28 believers. The alleged kamikaze pilot, Abu Abdallah al-Masri (see photo), appeared in (...)

Saudi Arabia supports Qatar against the Copts

19 December 2016

On Sunday 11 December 2016, Cairo’s Saint-Peter and Saint Paul Church was bombed leaving 23 people dead and [another] fifty seriously injured.
Egypt has decreed three days of national mourning.
Under the presidency of the Muslim Brother Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood was at complete (...)

Egypt supports the Iraqi, Libyan and Syrian armies

26 November 2016

On November 23, 2016, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaking at the RTP Portuguese TV channel said: "There should be international support for the national armies of Libya, Iraq and Syria, to ensure the security of their countries."
President el-Sissi thus broke a hitherto well-kept (...)

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