Bruno Finel

Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelatty, welcomed Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Wednesday in the coastal city of Alamein, about 100 kilometers west of Alexandria. 

The United Arab Emirates has been announced as the inaugural Guest Country of DIRECT EXPO, which will take place next year in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) has once again taken aim at Egypt, denouncing what it calls the abusive practice of “rotation,” in which political opponents and government critics are kept in prison beyond their legal terms by the filing of new charges.

The French daily Le Monde has once again revealed its entrenched bias with the publication of a scathing piece targeting Morocco’s King Mohammed VI. 

In a strongly worded open letter published Sunday in The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Kushner called on President Emmanuel Macron to take urgent and concrete action against the rise of antisemitism in France.

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Sunday sent a message of congratulations to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day, underscoring Abu Dhabi’s careful diplomatic balancing act between Kyiv and Moscow.

Dr. Rafea Halabi, a prominent Druze leader and human rights advocate, has issued an open letter to U.S. President Donald Trump, urging immediate international intervention to halt what he describes as a “very cruel massacre” of Druze communities in Syria.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for a United Nations–mandated mission to secure and administer Gaza has been met with skepticism from critics who view it as a calculated attempt to regain international relevance rather than a coherent geopolitical strategy.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Friday condemned Israel’s newly approved plan for a full-scale military takeover of Gaza City, warning it would lead to more “deaths and suffering” and must be halted “immediately.”

Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice President of the European Commission and a senior member of Spain's Socialist Party (PSOE), drew sharp attention for her remarks on the war in Gaza, telling Politico that the displacement and killing there “looks very much like genocide.”

It is a moment that would seem surreal—if not so predictably cynical.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slightly revised Egypt’s economic growth forecast for the fiscal year ending in June 2025, raising it to 4 percent, up from its previous estimate of 3.8 percent, according to the July 2025 update of its World Economic Outlook (WEO) report.