{"id":232938,"date":"2026-05-11T15:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-macron-boosts-egypt-ties-during-alexandria-visit-ahead-of-africa-france-summit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:54:23","slug":"egypt-macron-boosts-egypt-ties-during-alexandria-visit-ahead-of-africa-france-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-macron-boosts-egypt-ties-during-alexandria-visit-ahead-of-africa-france-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Macron Boosts Egypt Ties During Alexandria Visit Ahead of Africa-France Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em> President Emmanuel Macron visited Egypt&#8217;s Mediterranean city of Alexandria on Saturday, reaffirming France&#8217;s commitment to deepening economic and strategic ties with Cairo, despite persistent criticism over human rights. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Macron held talks with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi before inaugurating the new campus of Senghor University, a French-speaking institution focused on development in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Both leaders praised the strength of bilateral relations, elevated to a strategic partnership in 2025&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605110051.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Emmanuel Macron visited Egypt&#8217;s Mediterranean city of Alexandria on Saturday, reaffirming France&#8217;s commitment to deepening economic and strategic ties with Cairo, despite persistent criticism over human rights. Macron held talks with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi before inaugurating the new campus of Senghor University, a French-speaking institution focused on development in Africa. Both leaders praised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":232939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681396:3c15810427f6051db21574924cd11eed:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,31369,7019,2102,9156,4697,415,10577,257,254,5757,7051,6250],"class_list":["post-232938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africafrance","tag-ahead","tag-alexandria","tag-boosts","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-macron","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit","tag-ties","tag-visit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681396:3c15810427f6051db21574924cd11eed:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}