The State Department said Thursday that it had approved the sale of more than 20 heavy-lift helicopters to Egypt.

Egypt and Cyprus continue to coordinate and consult on the situation in Libya and the Palestinian issue and activate the East Mediterranean Gas Forum, said Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in a joint press conference with his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides on Thursday in Cairo.

Egypt is attempting to position itself as an impartial arbiter while hosting this year’s COP27 UN climate summit, as it pushes other nations to act on climate pledges while promoting the interests of the developing world, a senior Egyptian official said.

The Professor of Geology and Water Resources at Cairo University Abbas Sharaky said that Ethiopia is heading to a fourth breach in international accords over filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

The United States is secretly brokering talks between Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt over the transfer of two strategic Red Sea islands to Riyadh, Israeli news outlet Walla reported on Wednesday.

Egypt, host of the next United Nations summit on climate change, will push countries to make good on their pledges to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, facilitate “non-adversarial” talks on compensation to developing countries for global warming impacts and allow climate activists to protest, said the incoming president of COP27.

Egypt’s abysmal record of cracking down on peaceful dissent and civic space must not be allowed to undermine the success of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, due to start in under six months in Egypt, Amnesty International said today.

Increases in food prices triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine could kill “millions” of people globally, Egypt’s finance minister has cautioned, echoing warnings made by the UN and G7 countries over the worldwide wheat shortage.

The US Senate’s longest serving member has rebuked Egyptian authorities for continuing to detain activist and blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah, calling his treatment “reminiscent of the Middle Ages”.

The US has approved an arms sale, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, to Egypt despite outcry over Cairo’s continued human rights abuses and financial woes.