Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab met Sunday with his Djiboutian counterpart Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed on the sidelines of the African Union summit in the South African capital.

Mahlab conveyed President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's greetings to President Ismail Omar Guelleh and invited him to the inauguration of the new Suez Canal project.

The meeting took up means of boosting bilateral relations and issues on the summit agenda.