US Grants Egypt $1.3 Billion in Military Aid, Overriding Rights Conditions By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration is overriding human rights conditions on military aid to ...

The US government will release the full allocation of $1.3bn in military aid to Egypt for the first time under the Biden administration, according to a State Department spokesperson. The decision ...

The US State Department said Thursday it was unconditionally releasing $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt, at a time when Cairo and Washington have been working closely on a Gaza ceasefire deal.

The Biden administration’s approval this week of a $1.3 billion military aid package for Egypt despite its failure to hit human rights benchmarks has been criticized by rights experts.

Egypt, an important US ally in the Middle East ... An estimated $95m in military aid was tied to the prisoners’ release, and a further $225m was also subject to human rights scrutiny.

The funding, first reported by Reuters, will enable USAID's partners to continue to provide humanitarian aid, including food ... Since then, Israel's military has leveled swaths of the besieged ...

Deliveries of food and aid to Gaza sank to their lowest for 11 months in September. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The statement comes on the heels of increased attention to Egypt's significant role in bolstering Somalia's stability, highlighted by the recent arrival of a cargo ship loaded with substantial ...

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