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RSS FeedsEgypt islands deal with Saudi pits government against courts
(World News Egypt)

 
 

19 june 2017 17:10:11

 
Egypt islands deal with Saudi pits government against courts
(World News Egypt)
 


CAIRO (AP) -- The past week's tempestuous parliament approval of a deal transferring two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia is putting Egypt's government at odds with the judiciary and providing the country's battered opposition with a nationalist cause to whip up at a time of growing economic distress. The surprise 2016 deal to hand over the islands of Tiran and Sanafir aimed to strengthen ties with Saudi Arabia, which has provided distressed Egypt with billions of dollars in grants and soft loans over the past four years. It comes amid fitful efforts to establish an axis of cooperation between two powers vying for leadership of the self-styled moderate Sunni Arab camp -...


 
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