The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed the organisation’s readiness to play a role in the ongoing negotiations over the controversial giant Ethiopian dam.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the President of the Sudanese Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Saturday discussed the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the border crisis between Sudan and Ethiopia, in addition to matters of bilateral cooperation.

Aly Hussin Mahdy ignored his father’s text messages for quite some time. As a politically outspoken Egyptian asylum seeker living in Chicago, he was concerned about leaving an electronic trail that the feared intelligence services back home could read.

Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman said that his country seeks to restore relations with Egypt to their “natural warmth” and “normal state”.

In March 2015, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi told an international investment conference that Egypt needed $200-300bn to “develop”. At the time, it seemed to be extreme hyperbole, considering that the size of the Egyptian economy in 2015 was $332bn.

Hasiba Mahsoob, a 50-year-old Egyptian businesswoman, was at a public place in Alexandria, Egypt, in November 2019 when security forces arrested her. They took her to an undisclosed location, probably one of the National Security Agency’s illegal detention sites where they routinely “disappear” dissidents.

Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry said on Tuesday that negotiations with Ethiopia and Sudan over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) have come to a crossroads.

Russia officially announced on Feb. 25 that Egypt had received five Sukhoi Su-35 advanced combat aircraft. The Russian Khabarovsk Krai region’s official media agency stated that the most important achievement of the military factory in the region was delivering the five Su-35 fighter jets to Egypt, out of the 24 …

Turkey and Egypt could negotiate a maritime demarcation agreement in the eastern Mediterranean if ties warm between the two countries, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.

An Austrian academic’s account of being interrogated at gunpoint over alleged “terrorist” sympathies and opposing the Egyptian government has provoked outrage, raising fears about rising Islamophobia in the country.