The government of the UAE, by an order from Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan the President of UAE, gave Egypt cargo ships carrying 1,000,000 tonnes of wheat as a food gift to the people of Egypt.

[2] The UAE supported the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi in 2013, and has since become one of Egypt's closest allies in the Middle East,[3][4] alongside Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

Egypt and the UAE have both supported and supplied troops to the Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war.

[5] The two countries have also cooperated in Libya, intervening in the Second Libyan Civil War on behalf of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives.

[6] Despite usual cooperation in global affairs, Egypt and the UAE have taken opposite sides in the 2023 Sudan conflict.