Saudi King Abdullah meets Egypt's Sissi aboard his plane to show support
by Associated Press
CAIROJun 21, 2014 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Associated Press
Jun 21, 2014 12:00 am
Saudi King Abdullah has arrived on a brief visit to Egypt, his first since the 2011 uprising, to show support for the newly elected President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
Egypt state TV showed his plane landing at Cairo International Airport late Friday, where el-Sissi received the ailing monarch upon his arrival from Morocco, where he spent time for medical rehabilitation.
The visit will be Abdullah's first since the 2011 ouster of Hosni Mubarak, a close ally of both Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations showered Egypt with billions of dollars in aid after el-Sissi, then the army's top general, overthrew President Mohammed Morsi last summer. Saudi Arabia and Egypt have both declared the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, a terrorist organization.
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