Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in Kampala on Friday to discuss expanding economic collaboration and coordinating strategic approaches to pressing security challenges across Africa. The high-level bilateral meeting took place on the sidelines of the second extraordinary summit of troop-contributing countries to the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM).
Opening the discussions, Abdelatty formally conveyed warm greetings from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, reaffirming Cairo’s steadfast commitment to its historic partnership with Kampala. The Foreign Minister pointed to a growing momentum in Egyptian-Ugandan relations, characterized by an increasing frequency of high-level diplomatic exchanges, most notably marked by President Al-Sisi’s official visit to the Ugandan capital in May.
In response, President Museveni asked Abdelatty to convey his personal greetings to President Al-Sisi. Museveni praised the Egyptian leader’s persistent efforts to foster peace, security, and stability throughout both Africa and the Middle East, while explicitly reaffirming Uganda’s determination to broaden the scope of cooperation between the two nations across multiple key sectors.
During their dialogue, Abdelatty emphasized the critical necessity of scaling up bilateral trade, mutual investments, and joint economic initiatives. He highlighted several key domain areas ripe for accelerated development, including transportation infrastructure, renewable and traditional energy, mining, industrial agriculture, water resource management, and pharmaceuticals. Demonstrating concrete progress on the ground, Abdelatty pointed to active efforts to expand the footprint of the Egyptian Medical Centre in Jinja, which serves as a cornerstone of Egyptian medical diplomacy and development assistance in Uganda.
Furthermore, Abdelatty extended a renewed, formal invitation from President Al-Sisi to President Museveni to participate in the upcoming African Union Coordination Summit, scheduled to be hosted by Egypt on October 4, 2026. The high-level gathering will feature an accompanying African Business Forum aimed at driving intra-African investment and commercial integration.
Water security and shared hydrologic resources formed a central pillar of the consultation. Foreign Minister Abdelatty underscored the strategic necessity of equitable, consensus-driven cooperation among all Nile Basin states to ensure mutual developmental benefit. In doing so, he reiterated Cairo’s clear rejection of any unilateral measures taken in the Eastern Nile Basin that bypass consensus and international norms.
Abdelatty commended Uganda for its constructive leadership while chairing the consultative process of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI). He welcomed ongoing efforts aimed at restoring unified consensus within the framework and advancing shared water development projects in strict accordance with established international water law.
The two leaders exchanged detailed views on regional security crisis points, specifically focusing on the ongoing conflicts and instability in Sudan, Somalia, and the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Both sides agreed to intensify bilateral and multilateral diplomatic coordination to support peace, promote regional security, and accelerate sustainable development initiatives throughout the continent.
