Sisi, who regularly evokes political stability to draw foreign investment, said protesters elsewhere were "ruining" their countries.
The president fell short of naming the countries, although neighbouring Sudan has since December seen regular demonstrations against longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to
ArabizeDarfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
In Algeria, tens of thousands of people have rallied in recent weeks against ailing President Abdelaziz
Bouteflika... 10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth....
's bid for a fifth term in office.
"All this talk (of protests) comes at a price that people are required to pay," Sisi said in a televised address to a military gathering.
Egypt's president has overseen a crackdown on dissent, banning protests and jailing Islamists as well as liberal and secular activists.
A former general, Sisi came to power following mass demonstrations against the rule of his Islamist predecessor Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
The president has repeatedly criticised the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, which in Egypt ended the rule of autocrat Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
"How are tourism or factories or trade supposed to get off the ground? Should we eat or should we say that we were busy protesting?" he said Sunday.
Egyptian authorities insist curbing freedoms -- including tightening internet controls -- are necessary to maintain stability and counter terrorism in the country.
Recently, rare calls for protest emerged on social media following a train crash at Cairo's central station that killed 22 people.
"Dozens were tossed in the calaboose
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
for calling for the protests online after the crash," rights lawyer Gamal Eid told AFP on Sunday.