Egypt: Egypt gives top priority to boosting cooperation with fellow African countries, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli said Tuesday. The premier’s remarks came in his speech at a roundtable meeting of African housing ministers, which was held on the sidelines of the 12th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF12), currently hosted by Cairo.

According to State Information Service Egypt, Egypt spares no effort to support African countries in all domains to strengthen mutual interests for all parties, he said during the meeting, which was also attended by Anacláudia Rossbach, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), Kamel El Wazir, Industry and Transport Minister, Badr Abdelatty, Foreign Minister, Sherif El Sherbiny, Housing Minister, Amani Abo Zeid, Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy of the African Union Commission, and a host of African ministers.

Madbouli said Egypt is keen to share its great experience with African countries and prov
ide them with all forms of support in different domains under the directives of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi. The premier also highlighted Egypt’s support for African countries to achieve sustainable development and overcome different challenges related to security, stability, infrastructure, digitization, and urban development, among others.