CAIRO (AA) – Egypt said Sunday that it will not allow any threats to Somalia’s security amid tension with Ethiopia over a recent maritime deal between Addis Ababa and Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland. “No external actor will be permitted to threaten the Somali people or jeopardize their safety,” Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ...
Beijing,- AFP China’s top diplomat Wang Yi will this week visit Egypt and Tunisia, Beijing has said, as part of a four-country Africa tour before he heads to Brazil and Jamaica. Wang’s first trip of the new year comes as China increasingly focuses on ties in the Global South, seeking to bolster its influence in […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel bombarded the southern Gaza Strip overnight, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to travel to Egypt on Thursday for more talks aimed at containing Israel’s war on Gaza. Hamas’s press office said early Thursday that 62 people had been killed in strikes overnight, including arou...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – The leaders of Jordan, Egypt, and Palestine will hold summit talks in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba on Wednesday to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip. A statement by Jordan’s Royal Court said King Abdullah II will meet with Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “to discuss [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egypt is refusing to cooperate with Israel regarding greater surveillance of the Philadelphia Corridor, a narrow buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza, an Egyptian news outlet has reported. Al-Qahera News quoted an Egyptian official who said such reports were “completely false.” Last week, Israeli reports claimed that Israel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is weighing the opening of the Erez (Beit Hanoun) crossing to allow humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave amid US pressure, according to the Israeli media. The move comes ahead of a planned visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Israel next week, Haaretz newspaper reported. Israel has shut [&hell...
CAIRO (AA) – Egypt on Wednesday called on its citizens to leave Sudan quickly and refrain from traveling to it “under any circumstances.” In a statement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced the evacuation of several Egyptian students stranded in the city of Wad Madani in Al-Jazirah state in Sudan which is experiencing military conflicts. I...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A delegation from the Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad will visit Egypt for talks on a possible prisoner swap deal with Israel, according to a group official. “The delegation will discuss ways to stop the [Israeli] war on Gaza and a prisoner exchange deal,” Ziad al-Nakhala, Secretary-General of Islamic Jih...
ISTANBUL (AA) — It is crucial that Muslim nations continue their united efforts for a lasting cease-fire in Gaza, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Egyptian counterpart on Wednesday. In a phone call, Erdogan and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi discussed Israel’s aggression against Palestinian territories, as well as efforts to deliver...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The leader of Hamas travelled to Egypt on Wednesday as hopes grew that Israel and the Palestinian group may be inching toward another truce and prisoner swap deal. The Qatar-based Hamas chief, Ismail Haniyeh, arrived in Cairo for discussions on the “aggression in the Gaza Strip and other matters”...
