Egypt's president will head to US in September
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi will visit the United States in September on his first trip there as the country's head of state, the country's official news agency reported Wednesday.
MENA said el-Sissi will attend a United Nations environmental summit on Sept. 25 and deliver a speech. It added that he is expected to hold meetings with other world leaders -- but it did not say if he'll meet with US President Barack Obama.
Egypt's relations with US have been strained since the downfall of one-time ally Hosni Mubarak in the country's 2011 uprising.
The US has refused to fund all of the $1.5 billion in annual military and economic aid that Washington usually sends to Cairo after the military ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last year.
