House Speaker Ali Abdel Aal met with Nick Ayers, a top advisor to top adviser to US Vice President Mike Pence, in Cairo yesterday to discuss Egypt’s counterterror effort and bid to slow the flow of illegal immigrants to Europe, according to Al Mal. Abdel Aal and Ayers also discussed the US listing the Ikhwan as a terrorist organization, for which Ayers allegedly expressed support, Rep. Tarek Radwan said.

El Sisi, Ethiopian foreign minister meet: Egypt neither conspires nor interferes in other countries’ domestic affairs, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi told Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Workneh Gebeyehu, Al Masry Al Youm reports. It is important to reach an agreement over the rules of filling the Renaissance Dam’s reservoir, El Sisi said during a Cairo meeting yesterday. Gebeyehu also delivered a letter from Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn to El Sisi, saying Ethiopia cares to develop relations with Egypt. Desalegn is set to visit Cairo soon to attend the joint Egyptian-Ethiopian higher committee meeting. Ethiopia will not take any decisions that would harm Egypt, and is keen to work with the Egyptian government to promote the two countries’ political and economic interests, Gebeyehu said in a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry following a meeting between the two (runtime 5:01).

Trade and Industry Minister Tarek Kabil removed imports of recyclable polyethylene wastes from a blacklist of banned hazardous substances, Al Masry Al Youm reports citing a statement from the Chemical Industries Export Council.