Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s four-day trip to Africa this week, with stops in Nigeria, Angola and Togo, barely registered in the Turkish news.

The electrical linkage agreement concluded between Egypt and Greece to establish an undersea cable, the first infrastructure of its kind in the Mediterranean, is critical to energy security in Europe, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Wednesday.

Convened in the Greek capital Athens, leaders of Greece, Egypt and the Greek Cypriot administration reiterated their commitment to a tripartite alliance.

The Egyptian Naval Forces conducted a transient naval training drill with the Greek Naval Forces with the participation of the Egyptian frigate Alexandria and the Greek frigate HS Kanaris, in the range of the Northern Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea.

Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drones, touted as a game-changer for Ankara’s allies in the Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts, appear bound for further showing in African skies, but not without the risk of complicating Turkey’s foreign ties, primarily its fledgling bid at fence-mending with Egypt.

The connection would happen through an underwater cable that carries electricity across the Mediterranean sea.

A UK-based Palestinian director and filmmaker was detained in Cairo airport on Saturday while on his way to the El Gouna Film Festival, before being ordered to be escorted back to London.

Egyptian authorities are interested in strengthening trade relations with Israel by increasing the volume of trade exchange through the Nitzana crossing; the main commercial land border between the two sides, Israeli Broadcasting Corporation Kan has reported.

Egypt’s and Turkey’s economic ties have survived the two countries’ political rift because a cutoff in relations would have harmed too many people on both sides.

Athens is scheduled to host a tripartite summit between the leaders of Greece, Egypt and Cyprus on Tuesday.