Sisi and Merkel talk trade + transport on the agenda for UK ME Minister visit

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi talked trade, tourism, and GERD in a phone call yesterday with outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Ittihadiya said in a statement. The two leaders also touched on cooperation in education and renewable energy, as well as discussed several ongoing regional issues including Libya’s political transition and reconstruction in Gaza.

Cooperation on infrastructure projects was on the agenda for Transport Minister Kamel El Wazir and UK Minister for the Middle East James Cleverly, who met in Cairo yesterday, according to a ministry statement. The two ministers discussed, among other things, a bid from British Steel to provide 100k tons of railway tracks to the Egyptian National Railways.