Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and his family spent two weeks in quarantine after he was in contact with a senior soldier whose death from Covid-19 was reported on Monday, Middle East Eye has learned.

Egypt‘s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said his government is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic with “full transparency” and denied allegations the infection rate is being suppressed.

Every country has struggled to come to terms with the reality of a deadly pandemic. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei’s first reaction was to call coronavirus a “ridiculous disease” used as a pretext by Iran’s enemies to discourage people from voting in parliamentary elections.

Vice President of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, on Saturday arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo to discuss “bilateral security and economic relations”.

According to its constitution, Egypt is a republic governed by an elected president and unicameral legislature. Presidential elections were held in March 2018. Challengers to the incumbent President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pulled out ahead of the election, citing personal decisions, political pressure, legal troubles, and unfair competition; in some cases …

The legal team representing the family of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has expressed grave concern regarding the safety of his imprisoned son, warning he’s at risk of being “poisoned”.

Ever since reports emerged about the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the implications of such a project on Egypt’s water share, there has been a parliamentary tendency supported by the state to enact laws aimed at rationalizing water consumption with the aim of confronting the water shortage …

“We buy weapons to kill each other, we buy death with our money,” Shaykh al-Azhar, Ahmad al-Tayyib, said, as he came to the end of his intervention during a very public conference in Cairo, entitled “Al-Azhar International Conference on the Rejuvenation of Islamic Thought”.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday issued a decree appointing four new members to the country’s Al-Azhar Council of Senior Scholars, which provides theological and legal opinion on Muslim issues around the world.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday met with French Defense Minister Florence Parly to discuss military and security cooperation and continue bilateral consultation on shared issues.