Tag: Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

• Wednesday, September 30th 2015 - 09:21 UTC

  French Mistral helicopter carriers, originally for Russia, sold to Egypt

  

  France has agreed to sell two Mistral helicopter carriers to Egypt for 950 million Euros after their sale to Russia was canceled in August, French officials said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, July 30th 2015 - 08:07 UTC

  First cargo ships sail along Egypt's new expanded Suez Canal; official opening in August

  

  The first cargo ships passed through Egypt's New Suez Canal last weekend in a test-run before it opens next month, state media reported, eleven months after the army began constructing the $8 billion canal alongside the existing 145-year-old Suez Canal.