Ethiopia's foreign policy priorities in the Horn of Africa on maritime access and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam have fuelled tensions with both Somalia and Egypt.

India and Egypt are deepening engagement in the economic sphere and strengthening defence and security cooperation.

Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh’s visit to Egypt will concretise India–Africa defence cooperation through training, capacity-building, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

While Egypt has managed to contain the spread of the virus, the economic and political fallout of the pandemic poses a critical challenge to the stability of the country.

While the GCC crisis seems to be de-escalating, there is no end in sight as yet.

It is unrealistic and naïve to expect Qatar to surrender. And it is not beyond diplomacy to work out a face-saving formula