Egypt claims to receive invite that White House says it hasn't sent
President Sisi has been invited to next month's US-Africa Leaders Summit despite concerns about Egypt's human rights record.
President Obama has invited Egypt's president to the first ever US-Africa Leaders Summit next month despite lingering concerns about the country's human-rights record, Al-Monitor has learned.
Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received a written invitation from the US president earlier this week, an Egyptian official said. A US source confirmed that Egypt had been invited, even as the White House continued to publicly assert that it had yet to make up its mind.
"They have invited Egypt already," the Egyptian official told Al-Monitor.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations panel on Africa and the driving force behind the summit on Capitol Hill, indicated that inviting the Egyptians would make sense.
