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Bruno Finel

Bruno Finel

Bruno Finel is the editor-in-chief of Mena Today. He has extensive experience in the Middle East and North Africa, with several decades of reporting on current affairs in the region.

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Sisi welcomes Trump’s Gaza plan, says it opens path to lasting peace

Egypt

Sisi welcomes Trump’s Gaza plan, says it opens path to lasting peace

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, as Israeli and Hamas representatives prepared to begin indirect negotiations in Egypt aimed at securing a hostage-prisoner exchange and achieving a ceasefire.

Why Gaza peace talks are now happening in Cairo

Egypt

Why Gaza peace talks are now happening in Cairo

This Sunday’s meeting in Cairo between Israeli and Hamas delegations - facilitated by Trump-era figures Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner - isn’t just another round of Middle East peace talks. mediation.

Inside Qatar’s double game: Mediator or enabler?

Qatar

Inside Qatar’s double game: Mediator or enabler?

Qatar said it has begun coordination with mediator Egypt and the United States to continue talks on U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza plan to reach an end to the war, the Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson said on X.

Egypt: Hamas has “No role” in Gaza’s future

Egypt

Egypt: Hamas has “No role” in Gaza’s future

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty declared on Thursday that Hamas has “no role” in Gaza’s future, underscoring Cairo’s pivotal position as mediator in the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement.

France wants credit for a plan it didn’t write or negotiate

Gaza

France wants credit for a plan it didn’t write or negotiate

In a statement that raised more than a few eyebrows, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot declared on X that President Donald Trump’s new Gaza peace plan “explicitly draws inspiration” from ideas pushed by France and its partners at the UN just last week.

Egypt warns Middle East at ‘Point of implosion’ at UN Assembly

Egypt

Egypt warns Middle East at ‘Point of implosion’ at UN Assembly

Egypt’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Badr Ahmed Mohamed Abdelatty “categorically” rejected "any scenarios to forcibly displace the Palestinian people", stressing “this would be a crime of ethnic cleansing,” and Egypt “will never, never be a partner in a new Nakba.”

Egypt’s Sisi rejects accusations of blockading Gaza

Egypt

Egypt’s Sisi rejects accusations of blockading Gaza

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has rejected accusations that Cairo is complicit in the blockade of Gaza, stressing that Israel controls the Rafah crossing and must approve any entry of aid.

Bourita secures backing for Moroccan Sahara during UN meetings

Morocco

Bourita secures backing for Moroccan Sahara during UN meetings

On the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita held a series of high-level meetings with his international counterparts, focusing on two key issues: the ongoing conflict in Gaza and the question of the Moroccan Sahara.

Sánchez escalates anti-Israel rhetoric amid domestic unpopularity

Gaza

Sánchez escalates anti-Israel rhetoric amid domestic unpopularity

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has increasingly come to resemble a Spanish version of Emmanuel Macron: unpopular at home, politically weakened, and desperate to seize on causes that might rally public opinion. In Sánchez’s case, that cause has become the Palestinian questio

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