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Egypt’s Sissi to meet Trump on sidelines of Davos, Cairo says

By Reuters 20 January 2026, 11:00 am
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Left: US President Donald Trump at Trump National Doral Miami, January 27, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP); Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League joint extraordinary leaders summit in Riyadh, November 11, 2024. (SPA / AFP)
Left: US President Donald Trump at Trump National Doral Miami, January 27, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP); Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League joint extraordinary leaders summit in Riyadh, November 11, 2024. (SPA / AFP)

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi will meet US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Egypt’s presidency says.

This will be the first meeting between the two leaders since the US announced it was launching the second phase of its Gaza plan.

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