CAIRO — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received on March 26 his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, in a visit that Egyptian officials and observers believe is an important step toward repositioning Cairo in the Nile Basin region and which constitutes another factor of pressure on Ethiopia amid the ongoing crisis over the latter’s controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
The two leaders had a private discussion followed by talks between delegations from the two countries. Sisi and Kagame then attended the signing of memoranda of understanding between their countries in the fields of diplomatic training, youth and sports, museums and information technology.
