Washington has only withheld US$85 million of the US$1.3 billion annual allocation for Cairo.
The US has long provided Egypt with military and other aid after Cairo signed a peace deal with neighbouring Israel in 1979.
The law allows a further US$235 million to be withheld as that portion is also conditioned on Egypt meeting democracy and human rights requirements but US secretary of state Antony Blinken used his right to waive these conditions, US officials said. But rights groups who have long accused Egypt of widespread abuses under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government, including torture and enforced disappearances, said the US decision sends the wrong message.
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