El Sisi talks policy with top fund managers: President Abdel FattahEl Sisi held talks yesterday with representatives of international and regional investment firms and funds who took part in this week’s CI Capital MENA Investor Conference, Ittihadiya said in a statement. The talks featured an “open discussion” with the president and Investment Minister Sahar Nasr, Planning Minister Hala El Said and Trade Minister Amr Nassar on long-term economic and investment prospects in Egypt and the government reform program.

El Sisi holds talks with China’s Communist Party official: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi held talks yesterday with the director of the Office of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China Yang Jiechi, who invited El Sisi to attend a summit on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in April, according to an Ittihadiya statement.

Egypt condemned Tuesday’s attack on a luxury hotel and office complex in Nairobi, in a Foreign Ministry statement. Militant Islamist group al-Shabab have claimed responsibility for the attack, which targeted one of Nairobi’s most secure areas, according to the New York Times.