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أكتوبر 17, 2026

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends a joint statements and agreements during the EU and Egypt summit in Brussels, on Oct. 22, 2025.

السيسي يقول إن مصر لا تملك "طموحات إقليمية" بعد تهديد سموتريتش الإسرائيلي لسيناء

وتأتي تصريحات الرئيس المصري في أعقاب تحذير من وزير المالية الإسرائيلي بتسلئيل سموتريتش بأن إسرائيل ستستولي على شبه جزيرة سيناء إذا هاجمت مصر.

China's President Xi Jinping (center L) walks along with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi followed by their wives Peng Liyuan and Entissar Amer (R) upon their arrival at the Cairo International Airport on September 1, 2026. President Xi Jinping arrived in Egypt on September 1, making a rare trip to the Middle East as both countries face the threat of US sanctions over financial links to Iran. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Analysis

لماذا تُشكّل التوترات المتجددة بين مصر وإثيوبيا مشكلة بالنسبة للصين؟

بالنسبة لبكين، يمثل تجدد المواجهة بين مصر وإثيوبيا مأزقاً ذا محصلة صفرية يهدد المصالح الاستراتيجية الحيوية على جانبي نهر النيل.

Joyce Karam

بواسطة Joyce Karam

A quadrilateral summit was held on Oct. 4, 2026, attended by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al‑Sisi, Eritrea President Isaias Afwerki, President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, and Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council of Sudan Gen. Abdel Fattah al‑Burhan, in New El Alamein City, Egypt.

تعقد مصر وإريتريا والصومال والسودان قمة وسط التوترات مع إثيوبيا

تشهد العلاقات بين الدول الأربع وإثيوبيا توتراً متزايداً، مدفوعاً بالخلافات حول النيل، والوصول إلى البحر الأحمر، والأمن.

This general view shows the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Guba, Ethiopia, on February 19, 2022. - Ethiopia's massive hydro-electric dam project on a tributary of the Nile has raised regional tensions notably with Egypt, which depends on the huge river for 97 percent of its water supply. Government officials said the dam would begin producing electricity on Sunday, more than a decade since work first started. (Photo by Amanuel SILESHI / AFP) (Photo by AMANUEL SILESHI/AFP via Getty Ima

Explainer

لماذا تتصادم مصر وإثيوبيا بشأن تيغراي والصومال ونهر النيل؟

طردت مصر مسؤولاً من السفارة الإثيوبية في القاهرة يوم الخميس، في أعقاب خطوة مماثلة قامت بها إثيوبيا في نفس اليوم، في أحدث مؤشر على التوترات بين الدول الأفريقية المجاورة.

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Ronen Bar, former chief of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency

خلال زيارة سرية إلى الإمارات، طلب نتنياهو من محمد بن زايد نفي التحذيرات التي صدرت قبل 7 أكتوبر.

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20 إسرائيليًا عالقين في إثيوبيا يطلبون الإجلاء مع استئناف القتال: ما يجب معرفته

A general view of the damaged building housing Tigray TV, the state broadcaster of the Tigray region, following a drone strike in Mekelle, Ethiopia, Sept. 27, 2026.

مصر تستضيف وزراء دفاع اليونان وقبرص: ما يجب معرفته

Cypriot Defense Minister Vasilis Palmas, Egyptian Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Ashraf Salem Zaher, and Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias meet in Cairo, Sept. 22, 2026.

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Palestinian workers clear the rubble of a school that witnesses said was destroyed by Israeli shelling during the most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the east of Gaza City December 3, 2014. According to housing minister Mufeed al-Hasayna, Gaza needs 8,000 tonnes of cement a day to meet demand. A new system set up with the United Nations to comply with Israeli requirements lets through at most 2,000, he said. At that rate, reconstruction would take more than 30 years, said Hasayna, one of four

قطر تثير مخاوف السلطة إزاء غزّة

A delegate looks at a model of a planned new capital for Egypt during the final day of Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) in Sharm el-Sheikh, in the South Sinai governorate, south of Cairo, March 15, 2015. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was so confident after Egypt signed billions of dollars of deals at an investment summit that he publicly joked on Sunday about haggling with the world's top chief executives. Yet the real challenge has only just begun. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: BU

مخاوف حول جدوى مشاريع مؤتمر "مصر المستقبل" الإقتصاديّ

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (C) shakes hands with his Egypian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn after signing an Agreement on the Declaration of Principles on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project in Khartoum March 23, 2015. The leaders of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan signed a cooperation deal on Monday over a giant Ethiopian hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the river Nile, in a bid to ease tensions over regional water supplies. The leaders

بعد التوقيع على "وثيقة المبادئ"... القاهرة تبدأ معركة الاحتفاظ بحصّتها التاريخيّة من مياه النيل

A souvenirs vendor waits for tourists in front of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo, December 9, 2014. Egypt's tourism revenues jumped 112 percent to about $2 billion in the third quarter of 2014, a tourism ministry official said, suggesting the key industry was showing signs of recovery, albeit from a particularly bad third quarter last year. Tourism, an important source of foreign currency, has been hammered since the popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011. REUTERS

قيود على السّياحة في مصر لأسباب أمنيّة

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal gestures during his interview with Reuters in Doha November 29, 2012. Meshaal said the de facto recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state won by his rival Mahmoud Abbas should be seen alongside Gaza's latest conflict with Israel as a single, bold strategy that could empower all Palestinians. Meshaal said the short war which claimed 162 Palestinian lives and five Israelis was concluded on terms set by the Palestinian Islamist movement and ended its isolation, creating a new moo

حماس والحراك الإقليمي..الفرص والمخاطر

Workers clear debris outside a Vodafone branch following a blast, in Cairo February 26, 2015. One person was killed and five others wounded when five bombs exploded in different locations around Cairo on Thursday, security sources said. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS TELECOMS) - RTR4R9L2

محاولات لإرهاب المستثمرين في مصر بعد المؤتمر الاقتصاديّ

A member of the special forces police stands guard in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo, March 1, 2015, during a court session to determine if the House of Representatives parliamentary election law is constitutional. Egypt's Supreme Election Committee said on Sunday it was working on a "new timetable" for holding a parliamentary election. Earlier the Supreme Constitutional Court had ruled that an article related to a law defining electoral districts was unconstitutional, opening the way fo

الحكومة المصريّة: "حماس" ليست إرهابيّة

A police officer stands guard in front of the Bardo Museum in Tunis March 24, 2015. The national museum reopened on Tuesday, almost a week after a militant attack which killed 20 foreign visitors. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi - RTR4UMIW

"داعش" يغزو إفريقيا بعد مبايعة "بوكو حرام"

People take part in a protest against President Bashar al-Assad in the tribal province of Deir al-Zor, eastern Syria, July 22, 2011. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Syria after Friday prayers, activists and witnesses say, in widening pro-democracy protests against a violent military crackdown to crush a four month uprising. REUTERS/Handout (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLI

في ذكراها الرابعة.. سوريون يحيون ثورتهم السليمة

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C) delivers his speech next to volunteers during the closing session of Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) in Sharm el-Sheikh, in the South Sinai governorate, south of Cairo, March 15, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS) - RTR4TF1G

تطلّع رسميّ وشعبيّ مصريّ لنتائج إيجابيّة سريعة من المؤتمر الاقتصاديّ

A general view shows construction activity on the Grand Renaissance dam in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz region March 16, 2014. Egypt fears the $4.7 billion dam, that the Horn of Africa nation is building on the Nile, will reduce a water supply vital for its 84 million people, who mostly live in the Nile valley and delta. Picture taken March 16, 2014. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: ENERGY ENVIRONMENT POLITICS BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - RTR3HFPZ

الرّئيس التنفيذيّ لمبادرة حوض النيل: إجراءات لإنشاء مفوضيّة إقليميّة لحوض النيل والعودة إلى المفاوضات تتطلّب توافقاً وإرداة سياسيّة

A cotton worker is pictured along a street in old Cairo November 27, 2010. Egyptians wondering whether to vote in Sunday's parliamentary election must factor in the risk of brawls involving thugs hired by rival candidates. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTXV4R6

القاهرة: مؤامرة عالميّة وراء اختفاء القطن المصريّ