Al Jazeera has announced it will close its Mubasher Misr TV station in Egypt, following the Qatari-Egyptian rapprochement, in a setback for the Muslim Brotherhood.
On Dec. 20, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with the special envoy of the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, the special envoy of Saudi King Abdullah, Khaled bin Abdul Aziz Al-Tuwaijir and the president of the Saudi Royal Court, Khaled al-Tuwaijri, as an inauguration of the rapprochement between Egyptian-Qatari relations.