Egypt, Qatar rapprochement picks up momentum Months after a reconciliation agreement was signed, relations between Egypt and Qatar remain shy amid small steps at rapprochement.
A picture taken on June 6, 2017, shows the building of the Qatari Embassy in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
April 20, 2021
CAIRO Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received a phone call April 12 from Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani. The call, at the start of the holy month of Ramadan, was the first contact between the two leaders since a reconciliation agreement was signed between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors as well as Egypt in the Saudi city of al-Ula in January, ending the diplomatic rift that emerged in 2017.