Egypt’s El-Sisi to host 5-state Arab summit

An image released by the press office of Iraqi Prime Minister shows Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi receiving prime minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi upon landing in Egypt’s city of El-Alamein, on August 22, 2022. (AFP)

• Conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Libya, and latest Israel-Gaza round of fighting earlier this month will be discussed

CAIRO: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is to host a five-nation Arab summit on Monday with the Ukraine war-related energy and food crisis on the agenda, a government newspaper said.
El-Sisi, Emirati President Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi and the kings of Jordan and Bahrain, Abdullah II and Hamad, respectively, are to meet in El-Alamein, northwest of Cairo on the Mediterranean coast, Al-Ahram said.
Al-Ahram, which cited a diplomatic source, said the dispute pitting Egypt and Sudan against Ethiopia over its Renaissance Dam on the Nile would also be up for discussion, as well as the conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Libya, and the latest Israel-Gaza round of fighting earlier this month.
Among the mini-summit participants, Iraq is the only country not to recognize Israel.