Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received Dangote Group founder and president Aliko Dangote in New Alamein on 3 October 2026. The Egyptian Presidency said the meeting took place on the sidelines of the Alamein Africa Business Forum and was attended by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty. Their discussion included the possibility of group investment in Egypt and areas where the company could cooperate with the government. The Presidency described the sectors as potential areas, not agreed projects. The Presidency identified Dangote as founder and president of West Africa’s largest conglomerate and chairman of the Africa Business Leaders Initiative.

The statement cited the group’s expansion across cement, fertiliser, energy and food processing in African markets, saying those activities have supported productive and industrial capacity in several countries. Dangote’s own corporate profile describes a broader industrial portfolio that includes cement, energy, fertiliser, petrochemicals and food-related businesses. That background helps explain why the discussion touched more than one manufacturing field, but the group’s existing operations elsewhere do not establish an investment decision in Egypt. The Presidency release named no specific project or investment amount for the meeting.

According to the Presidency, potential areas of cooperation between the group and Egypt were energy, fertiliser, chemicals and cement. El-Sisi pointed to Egypt’s economic assets and modern infrastructure as factors that could support a regional energy and industrial hub. Dangote said he looked forward to state support for the group’s investments in Egypt; El-Sisi welcomed the possibility of investment and said the state was ready to provide facilitation. The release gave no separate project proposals, location, production target, financing structure or schedule for any of the four sectors. They should therefore be reported as topics for exploration, not signed projects.

The meeting came alongside forum discussions about private companies’ role in African industrialisation and economic cooperation. El-Sisi described the private sector as a principal partner in sustainable development and referred to the African Union’s Agenda 2063. The Presidency account did not report a signed memorandum, a firm investment commitment or a monetary value. Its concrete development was an exploratory conversation between the Egyptian government and Dangote Group about possible investment and cooperation in four industrial areas. The statement set out no next project step or approval timetable.