Today, after years of political chaos since the Arab Spring and the return of the military to power, Egypt’s internal politics have stabilised”. Egypt, again principally in the company of the same Gulf states, has been backing the embattled Transitional Military Council in Khartoum. Some of it is no doubt about el-Sisi taking a greater genuine interest in Africa than his deposed predecessor Hosni Mubarak. He says el-Sisi is mainly supporting Sudan’s Transitional Military Council and Libya’s Haftar to protect Egypt’s borders from Islamic terrorists operating from these neighbouring countries. Egypt supported the Transitional Military Council from day one by helping to prevent Sudan’s suspension during the PSC’s first meeting on the subject.

Source: Libya Today June 21, 2019 10:18 UTC