President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s African tour comes as the Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office plans to establish the Nile Basin Commission to “enforce demands of equitable utilization of the Nile river’s resources,” according to Sudan Tribune. This commission will be established soon after Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Rwanda ratify the Nile Basin Initiative’s Cooperation Framework Agreement. While Egypt has attempted to re-engage with the Nile Basin Initiative, it has, along with Sudan, yet to completely reverse its opposition to the framework agreement. South Sudan, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda have accepted the agreement and are in the process of ratifying it.

US envoys’ planned trip to the Middle East to try and broker peace between Israel and Palestine is “welcome, as always,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, i24 News reports. “US President Donald Trump’s special Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and deputy national security adviser Dina Powell, are due to arrive in the region in the coming weeks.” The delegation is set to meet with leaders from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, Palestine, and Israel.

Guinean Foreign Minister Makali Kamara headed a delegation to Cairo yesterday for a two-day visit, Al Shorouk reports. On the agenda are meetings with Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on cooperation and counterterrorism.

Shoukry has been meeting with the head of the UN’s Libya Support Mission Ghassan Salamé,who is also in Cairo for two days. Egypt’s mediation efforts between Libyan factions and threats to Egypt’s security were on the agenda, according to a statement from the ministry.