UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi visited an Egyptian air detachment revealing that Egypt has deployed a Rafale fighter jets squadron in the UAE.

Opposition candidate Mohamed Abdel Ghani’s victory in Egypt’s Engineers Syndicate elections reflects growing resistance to state influence within professional bodies.

Geopolitical tensions, reliance on short-term capital, and conditional IMF financing, combined with seasonal demand and structural economic vulnerabilities, are driving volatility in the Egyptian pound despite high reserves and remittance inflows.

Egypt has ramped up military support for the Sudanese army against the RSF, emboldened in large part by Saudi Arabia’s confrontation with what it calls the “Abu Dhabi government militia,” and despite Cairo’s long-standing ties with MBZ.

A Saudi-Turkish-Egyptian alignment is taking shape as an emerging axis, seeking to translate coordination into concrete action on the ground.