The joint drills come “within the framework of the Armed Forces General Command’s plan to upgrade the level of training of Egyptian forces, and exchange experiences with the armed forces of brotherly and friendly countries,” according to the Egyptian Armed Forces.
Egypt has announced a series of new measures to try and slow the rise of infection rates across the country as the third wave of the pandemic engulfs the country.
A security source has denied claims circulated on social media that a number of prisoners have gone on a hunger strike in Torah prison.
As Ankara and Cairo concluded a second day of talks on Thursday, Turkey said it is ready to hold tripartite meetings with Egypt and Libya to agree on disputed issues, including the presence of foreign mercenaries, Egyptian intelligence sources said.
Egypt and Turkey hold talks on bilateral and regional issues in a push to rebuild their fractured relations. Egypt and Turkey said they had held “frank” discussions during the first official diplomatic talks between the regional rivals for eight years, a joint statement said.
The US envoy for the Horn of Africa on Wednesday met with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as part of a new push to find a resolution to a regional decade-long dispute over Ethiopia’s massive dam on the Nile River’s main tributary.
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