Three business delegations from Poland will visit Egypt in April, Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Ahmed Antar says, Al Mal reports. Representatives from state-owned companies producing railway cars will visit end of this week, followed by a Polish Agriculture Ministry delegation and company representatives who will visit 22-24 April to discuss investing in the 1.5 mn feddans project. Execs from renewable energy companies will visit 27-29 April, Antar adds. In mid-May, a delegation from Polish Special Economic Zones will visit to discuss establishing a Polish Industrial Zone in the Suez Canal Economic Zone. This comes ahead of the planned visit by the Polish President Andrzej Duda in 2H17, with 250 company representatives.

Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi met with a US Congressional delegation in Cairo yesterday, during which the congressmen reaffirmed the US administration’s support for Egypt in its fight against terrorism, Ahram Gate reports. Members of the delegation have been nudging Egypt to increase its transparency in order to obtain more military aid and assistance from the US, as we noted yesterday.

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met with Germany’s Food and Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt in Cairo yesterday, according to a statement from Ittihadiya.

Egypt signed an EUR 10 mn grant agreement with the EU to support women’s rights and empowerment, according to an Investment and International Cooperation Ministry statement. The grant will be directed towards the National Council for Women to fund the national plan to stop female genital mutilation and empower families, Minister Sahar Nasr says.

Sudan’s decision to impose a visa requirement on Egyptian men aged 18-50 to visit is “to prevent terrorists from entering the country,” the Sudanese foreign ministry said, according to Ahram Online. Sudan imposed restriction last weekend, a few days before a planned visit by Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to Khartoum that was postponed afterwards. An Egyptian Foreign Affairs Ministry source called the timing of the decision “odd.” Egypt has had an entry visa requirement for all Sudanese men aged 18-50 for some time now, and its visa, unlike the Sudanese one, is not for free.

(Want more on Egypt-Sudan relations? Al Monitor has a very detailed timeline of the escalating beef between Egypt and Sudan over Halayeb and Shalatin.)