WB boss Malpass pledges more support for Egypt’s infrastructure projects: The World Bank is looking to push on with “its growing cooperation with Egypt” in sectors including infrastructure, private sector and SME development, transportation, energy, education, healthcare, wastewater treatment, and vocational training, World Bank President David Malpass told President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, according to an Ittihadiya statement. The two, who met yesterday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, also discussed boosting cooperation on infrastructure projects in Africa.

El Sisi also met yesterday with UN Secretary General António Guterres for talks that focused largely on counterterrorism efforts. The president had similar discussions with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and talked about bilateral relations and the situation in Syria, Libya, and Yemen with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The president separately delivered a speech at the UN Sustainable Development Summit, in which he presented Egypt’s plans for sustainable growth laid out in his administration’s Vision 2030, including the economic reform program and plans to create more jobs, empower women, and improve health and education services. El Sisi called on the international community and institutions to increase their funding to developing nations to allow them to meet the Sustainable Development Goals laid out by the UN. You can watch his full speech here or read the full Arabic transcript here.