Tunisian President Kais Saied visited Egypt between 9 and 11 April at the invitation of President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi. It was Saied's first such visit since coming to power in October 2019. Talks between the two countries' leaders focused on (...)
In a strong signal of Moscow's intention to play a greater role in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Cairo on Monday to meet with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri.
Lavrov's (...)
The seventh Alexandria Short Film Festival (ASFF, 5-10 April) showed how cultural initiatives outside Cairo can grow and gain in credibility and popularity. The centrality of the capital to cultural life is oppressive, and even events that take (...)
The increasing importance of the Red Sea as a nexus of geopolitical competition poses security problems to countries in the region. A lack of consensus on the rules of competition among international and regional powers has only intensified the (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi sent a clear warning to Ethiopia on 30 March, stating that Egypt's right to the Nile water will not be compromised and that its share in its lifeline is a "red line". He added that tensions regarding this topic will (...)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met, on Monday, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, during the latter's visit to Cairo.
The meeting addressed Egypt-Russia cooperation in different fields, and the Ethiopian Nile dam (...)
Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh and a delegation of ministers will make their first visit to Turkey on Monday since taking office last month, the Turkish presidency said on Sunday.
Libya's new unity government was sworn in on March 15 from (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has met with his Tunisian counterpart Qais Said to discuss a number of regional and international issues of common interest.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Al-Sisi said that the most important (...)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for the "worrying" developments in eastern Ukraine's Donbass region to come to an end after meeting his Ukrainian counterpart in Istanbul, adding Turkey was ready to provide any necessary (...)
Italy's prime minister on a visit Tuesday to the Libyan capital of Tripoli - his first trip abroad since taking office - lauded the North African country's efforts to curb the flow of migrants to Europe.
Following in the footsteps of other European (...)
Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary General of the Arab League, met with Tunisia's President Qais Saeed, on Monday, at the Carthage Palace in the Tunisian capital, Tunis.
The meeting witnessed an exchange of views on the various Arab issues on which (...)
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reopened Greece's embassy in Libya on Tuesday, urging a reset of relations soured by the Tripoli government's 2019 maritime boundary agreement with Greece's Mediterranean rival Turkey.
Libya's unity government took (...)
The Libyan Presidency Council announced, on Monday 5 April, the creation of a national reconciliation commission. A key step in the roadmap adopted by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) in mid-November last year, it seeks to pave the way to (...)
As the African Union-sponsored negotiations on Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam convened in Kinshasa, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke of war on "eight fronts." Most of those fronts are internal. The most serious is in the Tigray region where (...)
Addressing the world last week after the freeing of the Ever Given giant container ship that was stranded in the Suez Canal, the most strategic and cost-effective international shipping route, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi delivered a (...)
The European Union on Sunday called for the departure of all foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya, describing it as a ''precondition'' for a return to stability in the war-torn country.
At a news conference in the Libyan capital, c described (...)
More than 100,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine arrived at Tripoli's Mitiga airport on Sunday, Libya's ministry of health said, the first shipment to reach the country.
Around 1,000 new infections are announced daily by the National (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry has met with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi to discuss ongoing preparations for the upcoming trilateral summit between Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq.
The summit will be held as part of the (...)
A boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants capsized off Libya's coast, drowning two women and three children, a U.N. official said Wednesday. It was the latest shipwreck involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe.
Safa Msehli, spokesman (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed possible cooperation on vaccines with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a joint video conference on Tuesday, Macron's office and the Kremlin said.
The Kremlin said in a (...)
The European Union is set to agree to sanction several Iranian individuals on Wednesday for human rights abuses, the first such measures since 2013, three EU diplomats said.
EU envoys are expected to agree to impose travel bans and asset freezes on (...)
Foreign ministers of Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan have met to discuss joint cooperation and regional issues of mutual issues between the three countries.
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry has confirmed that there is tripartite consensus (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and France's President Emmanuel Macron held a telephone conversation, on Sunday, to discuss the latest developments of the Libyan crisis and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute.
During the call, (...)
يستمتع القليل من السائحين، الذين لا يحتاجون إلى الاصطفاف في طوابير للدخول نظرا لقلة عددهم، بالتجول في المعابد الإغريقية القديمة بمدينة قورين في ليبيا والتحديق في التماثيل اليونانية ذات ال2700 عام، لكن ثمة تهديد يلحق بتلك المدينة العريقة، وهي جرافات (...)
Libya's new presidency council visited Turkey on Friday for talks with President Tayyip Erdogan, marking the council's first official visit to Turkey since taking office.
Libya's new unity government was sworn in on March 15 from two warring (...)
