second Suez Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/second-suez/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 second Suez Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/second-suez/ 32 32 El Sisi says he wants to be like Nasser https://jjcornish.com/2015/08/el-sisi-says-he-wants-to-be-like-nasser/ Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/08/el-sisi-says-he-wants-to-be-like-nasser/ Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi says opponents of the Suez Canal mega project are working off static data that’s probably inaccurate He says opening the canal to bigger ships going in both direction is vital to meet expected growth in maritime traffic. end intro Constructing what is being called the Second Suez is being […]

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]]> Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi says opponents of the Suez Canal mega project are working off static data that’s probably inaccurate
He says opening the canal to bigger ships going in both direction is vital to meet expected growth in maritime traffic.
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Constructing what is being called the Second Suez is being likened to not so much to first building the canal 150 years ago but to President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalising the waterway in 1956.
Sisi’s engaged journalists invited for the opening of the second canal.
One of them asks if he regards himself as the new Nasser.
He replies he hopes to be as great as Nasser.
He plans to engage Africa as vigorously as Nasser did during the the period of decolonisation.
He says moving ships more quickly through the new Suez will benefit the whole continent.

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]]> John Kerry in Cairo for bilateral talks https://jjcornish.com/2015/08/john-kerry-in-cairo-for-bilateral-talks/ Sat, 01 Aug 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/08/john-kerry-in-cairo-for-bilateral-talks/ US Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Cairo today and tomorrow. The bilateral strategic dialogue with the biggest recipient of US aid on the continent comes ahead of Egypt opening the Second Suez canal that will enable two-way traffic on the country’s biggest foreign currency earner. ends intro John […]

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]]> US Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Cairo today and tomorrow.
The bilateral strategic dialogue with the biggest recipient of US aid on the continent comes ahead of Egypt opening the Second Suez canal that will enable two-way traffic on the country’s biggest foreign currency earner.
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John Kerry goes on to Qatar from Egypt and a meeting with foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council.
Kerry’s accompanied by US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour Tom Malinowski..
… who’ll be talking to representatives of civil society and political parties.
Human rights activists this week report a rise in the number of people who’ve gone missing in the hands of Egypt’s security services.

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