USAID wants to help us with food inflation + Egypt condemns Israeli actions at Al Aqsa

USAID’s Samantha Power, Al Mashat discuss food security, COP27: USAID wants to help Egypt mitigate the impact of rising food prices amid war in Ukraine, agency administrator Samantha Power told International Cooperation Minister Rania Al Mashat during talks on Monday, USAID said in an official statement. The two sides also discussed Egypt's preparations to host the COP27 climate summit and human rights.

“Egypt condemned the incursion of the Israeli occupying forces into Al Aqsa Mosque and called for respecting the status quo in East Jerusalem” in a UN Security Council meeting yesterday, Egypt's Permanent Representative to the UN Osama Abdel Khalek said in a tweet. Tensions have been running high in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent weeks amid a spate of clashes at Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque.