CAIRO, May 22 (Aswat Masriya) - The 2016 World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa region will be held in Egypt next May, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Friday addressing the 2015 World Economic Forum on the MENA region.

The forum is run in Jordan from May 21 - 23 under the banner of "Creating a Regional Framework for Prosperity and Peace through Public-Private Cooperation."