Egyptian President to Meet With Trump Next Month

According to a leading, state-owned Egyptian newspaper, the Egyptian president, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, is set to meet with newly elected US president, Donald Trump next month.

The Al-Ahram newspaper in Egypt ran a frontpage story on Sunday on al-Sisi’s impending meeting with Trump. The newspaper said that the president will travel to Washington to meet with President Trump.

The newspaper further reported that the meeting between the two heads of state will take place in the first week of April.

This will be al-Sisi’s first trip to the United States as president of Egypt, after he took office in in June of 2014.

The relationship between Egypt and the United States looks set to become stronger now that Trump has been elected president.

Tensions between the US and Egypt were at an all-time high during the last few years of the Obama-administration. Under former president Obama, the US placed a lot of emphasis on human rights, especially in Egypt, that did not sit well with the government.

During this time, the Egyptian government also believed that the US supported the Muslim Brotherhood – and Islamic religious, social and political movement that had differences with the Egyptian government.

The movement has since been outlawed in Egypt.

This will not be the first time that al-Sisi and trump will meet. The two met already at the UN General Assembly in September 2016, when Trump was still only the US’ Republican nominee.

Of their meeting, Trump said that there was ‘good chemistry’ between the two leaders, and al-Sisi was just as impressed with Trump, saying that he would ‘make a great leader.’