EgyptAir, the national carrier of Egypt, signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Ghana on Oct. 21 to create a Ghanaian national aviation company with joint Egyptian-Ghanaian investment, according to Capt. Roshdy Zakaria, chairman of the board of directors of the EgyptAir Holding Company.

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan reached an agreement on Tuesday to restart negotiations over Ethiopia’s mega-dam under the auspices of the African Union in a joint teleconference meeting between the foreign affairs and irrigation ministries of the three countries, according to an Egyptian government source familiar with the negotiations.

Former Egyptian journalist and MP, Abdul Rahim Ali, has fled Egypt and moved to Dubai after discovering he had been defeated in the parliamentary elections, Qatar’s Al-Sharq newspaper reported yesterday.

The Egyptian ministers of foreign affairs and irrigation emphasized the need to reach a binding legal agreement on the filling and operation of Ethiopia’s Renaissance dam as per resolutions adopted during the relevant meetings of the African Union Bureau.

A major supermarket chain in Egypt has taken French goods off its shelves in response to anti-Islam comments made recently by French President Emmanuel Macron, possibly setting off similar moves by other commercial outlets in the Muslim-majority country.

A former Egyptian political prisoner has filed a lawsuit at the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against consular officers at the Egyptian Consulate in Istanbul after they accused him of having a forged passport and tried to trap him in the building.

Negotiations between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will resume on Tuesday, two months after Egypt’s withdrawal from the talks, announced the President of the African Union Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday.

The United States has called on the Egyptian government not to allow Chinese companies to help establish the country’s 5G telecommunications infrastructure.

Ethiopia on Saturday summoned the US ambassador over what it called an “incitement of war” between Ethiopia and Egypt from President Donald Trump over his comment that Cairo could end up “blowing up” the Renaissance Dam.

US President Donald Trump on Friday voiced anger at Ethiopia over its construction of a huge dam on the Nile River and appeared to suggest that Egypt may destroy it.