El Sisi on Tanzania for first leg of African tour

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi arrived in Tanzania yesterday in the first leg of his Africa tour, which will also include stops in Rwanda, Gabon, and Chad, Al Masry Al Youm reports. The local press is hailing the trip as a grand re-engagement with Africa. El Sisi stressed the need for joint cooperation and seeing eye-to-eye on developing projects along the Nile basin in a joint press conference with Tanzania’s president John Magufuli. Trade featured heavily in their talks: El Sisi called for expanding trading relations, but nothing was mentioned on Egypt’s push to form an African Trade Zone through the merger of COMESA, EAC and SADC trade blocs. El Sisi will be in Rwanda today, according to All Africa.