Bangladesh
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met with the head of the interim government of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, on the sidelines of the 11th summit of the Developing Eight Organization for Economic Cooperation (D-8) held in Cairo on Thursday.
Egypt is also hosting the D-8 Summit having Bangladesh.
Ambassador Tamim Khallaf, the official spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry, stated that during the call, Abdelatty conveyed Egypt's best wishes for the new Bangladeshi government’s success in achieving political and economic stability.
The fire swept through the camp, which hosts more than a million refugees of Rohingya who fled the military-led oppressive practices, Reuters reported on Sunday, adding that the reason behind the fire is not clear.
Egypt has offered condolences to Bangladesh over victims of floods that hit various parts of the Asian country, leaving scores of people dead and injured.
They belong to two countries.
At least 38 people were killed and dozens of others were injured on Friday after a fire swept through a three-decked ferry that was carrying more than 500 people on board near the town of Jhalakathi, BBC reported on Saturday.
A delegation from Bangladesh visited Egypt, Wednesday to receive a plot of land purchased by the government of Bangladesh to build an embassy in the New Administrative Capital.
The Kuwaiti Cabinet decided to suspend air flights from and to seven countries, including Egypt, for a week, as a preventive measure to control the spread of Coronavirus.
The death toll from monsoon storms in Bangladesh rose to 114, with flood levels still rising in many parts of the country.
On Thursday, a fast-moving fire killed at least 78 when it swept through a historic district of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina considers being called authoritarian by the western media a "badge of honour".
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday that Egypt is currently working on the biggest dates plantation that will include around 2,500 million palm trees to produce top quality dates.
The UN Human Rights Council voted Thursday to set up a panel to prepare criminal indictments over atrocities committed in Myanmar.
Bangladeshi PM met the Egyptian Amb. in Dhaka July 26, alongside her senior advisors and officials from the Foreign Ministry.
The agreement will contribute to promoting joint cooperation in several sectors topped by encouraging mutual investments and exchanging experts.
Egypt expressed deep condolences to Bangladesh over the victims of the plane crash at Kathmandu International Airport that left 50 passengers killed.
A Bangladesh airline passenger aircraft crashed while descending at Nepal’s Kathmandu airport on Monday, an airport official said.
Hundreds of desperate Rohingya Muslims are still pouring over the Myanmar border into Bangladesh every week.
Representatives from Bangladesh and Myanmar will meet on Tuesday to discuss the repatriation to Myanmar of more than 6,500 Rohingya Muslims trapped on a strip.
