Ahram Online Bilateral cooperation and regional challenges were discussed on Monday at a meeting between Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Djiboutian counterpart Ismail Omar Guelleh in Cairo. “We agreed on the vitality of boosting cooperation in various priority fields, which include trade, investments, industry, health, tourism, security and culture. In …
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Egypt Independent “The State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Egypt of C-130J-30 Super Hercules aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2.2 Billion”, the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement on Tuesday. The statement said that Egypt requested …
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Egypt’s dilemma in Libya lies between needing to stop Turkish interference while minimising political and geographical divisions in the interest of to the conflict’s resolution. Ziad Akl Libya has been witnessing a very rapid pace of political and military transformation recently. No doubt Libya is an integral element of Egypt’s …
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Hadi Fathallah* The Gulf’s changing security could have serious economic implications as the U.S. continues to disengage from the region. In July, the Islamic Republic of Iran took into custody a British flagged tanker. In June, Iran also shot down a $200 million American Global Hawk High Altitude surveillance drone, …
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Egypt Independent Sudan Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok survived an assassination attempt early on Monday, targeting his convoy in the capital Khartoum, state television and a cabinet source reported. Images broadcast on regional TV channels and social media showed a convoy of several damaged white SUVs and a badly damaged …
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Egypt Independent Two militants on a motorbike blew themselves up outside the US embassy in Tunisia on Friday, killing a policeman and injuring several others in the country’s most serious attack in months. The explosion took place near the embassy’s main entrance. A Reuters journalist saw a scorched, damaged …
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Egypt Today Egypt is hosting a meeting of the G5 Sahel countries and representatives of donor states between 9 and 11 February 2020. The meeting agenda includes “cooperation mechanism between the five countries in counterterrorism, exchanging support and experiences in the fields of security and defence”. Egypt proposed to …
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Mehrdad Khonsari* The year ahead; with parliamentary elections only months away, is likely to echo widespread public disillusionment. It promises to be another difficult and excruciating period for the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). Despite ongoing efforts behind the scenes, without any ground-breaking diplomatic breakthroughs; either at the regional level …
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Egypt Today Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit asserted that “restoring the collective Arab security is essential in dealing with the state of uncertainty that is prevailing in the world”. In a lecture at the UAE Center for Strategic Studies and Researches, Abul Gheit noted that “establishing a collective …
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Egypt Today Egyptian Foreign Ministry condemned, in a statement issued on Wednesday, a knife attack which took place in the Jordanian city Jerash; which is known for its Roman antiquities. The attack resulted in injuring eight people of different nationalities. The ministry affirmed Egypt’s solidarity with the Jordanian people and …
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