In devotion of Robert Springborg’s description of Egypt as “beggar state”, with respect to reliance on foreign support, South Korea announces it will lend Egypt $1bn, as soft loan South Korea has announced that it [ More … ]
Turkish president says he will visit Riyadh next month, following warming relations and the resumption of ties with the UAE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he plans to visit Saudi Arabia [ More … ]
Palestinian factions have condemned Tuesday’s meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Benny Gantz, near Tel Aviv, Anadolu Agency reported. Palestinian officials said the meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz dwelt on [ More … ]
Emirati Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology said on Wednesday that Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are entering a new era of relations, according to Anadolu News Agency. Speaking to Turkish state broadcaster, TRT, [ More … ]
Libyan renegade General Khalifa Hafter has sent his son to Israel to ask for political and military support, Israeli journalist Yossi Melman revealed yesterday in a report published by Haaretz. Last Monday, a private jet [ More … ]
Lebanon has maintained diplomatic ties with Syria since 2011, but adopted a so-called policy of dissociation from the civil war Lebanese officials visited Damascus on Saturday to discuss plans to import gas through war-torn Syria’s [ More … ]
A human rights organization said yesterday that it was denied visit to the political prisoner Mohamed Ibrahim, known as “Oxygen” after his attempted suicide The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) on August 23 [ More … ]
Instead of moving against the existential danger posed by the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the Egyptian diplomacy moves for the arrest rights defender Mohamed Sultan!! Egypt’s spy chief Abbas Kamel has claimed that Washington signed [ More … ]
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said a Turkish delegation would visit Egypt next month in the first step toward normalization of ties between the two countries. Noting that he spoke with his Egyptian counterpart in [ More … ]
Turkey and Libya have reiterated their commitment to enhancing bilateral ties and the maritime deal, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara prioritizes the country’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and political unity. In a joint news [ More … ]
During his first official visit to Cairo, Tunisian President Kais Saied expressed his support to Egypt’s “water security” concerns in the Nile dam row opposing it to Ethiopia and underlined Tunisian and Egyptian support to [ More … ]
David Schenker’s visit comes ahead of the expected opening of provisional US consulate in the contested desert region. A top United States envoy has visited contested Western Sahara after Washington recognized Morocco’s sovereignty there in [ More … ]
Erdogan in Qatar after official visit to Kuwait [ More … ]
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, arrived in Sudan Tuesday on a one-day visit aimed at strengthening relations between the two countries, the official Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) reported. SUNA said Ahmed was received at Khartoum airport by his [ More … ]
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Guler went to Libya Friday to review activities carried out under MoU signed by Turkey, Libya. Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said [ More … ]
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