Saudi King's Egypt visit aims to show support for Sisi

Egypt's newly-elected President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi will meet Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah late Friday evening, the first visit by a head of state to Egypt since Sisi's inauguration, official news agency MENA reported Friday.
It said the Saudi king will stop in Cairo en route back home from Morocco, where the aging king received medical treatment, adding that the two leaders are scheduled to hold joint talks that will be followed by a private meeting.
The visit will also be Abdullah's first since the 2011 ouster of Hosni Mubarak, a close ally of both Saudi Arabia and the United States.
The Saudi royal court confirmed the visit in a statement posed on the official Saudi news agency on Friday.
The Saudi monarch has thrown his weight behind Sisi since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July over mass protests against his rule and his Muslim Brotherhood group.
Meanwhile, regional powerhouse and the world's top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia provided Egypt's interim government with aid worth billions of U.S. dollars.
King Abdullah, who is also the first world leader to congratulate Sisi shortly after winning the elections, hailed former army leader's victory as "a historical day," and called for a donor conference to help the flagging Egyptian economy revive.
Saudi Arabia has followed suit of Egypt in branding the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, as "a terrorist group."