The United States will continue to encourage Egypt to take steps on human rights, including freeing more political prisoners and guaranteeing freedom of expression, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a visit to [ More … ]
The competent investigative authorities in Egypt have ordered the imprisonment of Mohamed Hossam El-Din, known as “Bissa” and Basma Hegazi, known as “Warda”, for 15 days pending investigations. The investigation authorities accused the defendants of [ More … ]
On the eve of Blinken’s Middle East tour, Israel carried out drone strikes on an Iranian factory. The attack comes amid growing tensions over Iran’s nuclear program and its continued supply of weapons to Russia, [ More … ]
The Economist suggests that donors should not keep bailing out Egypt, a state that only enriches men in khaki, the military. “To the list of spectacular ruins across Egypt, you can now add its economy. [ More … ]
Egypt’s human rights crisis has persisted and even worsened over the last three years, according to a recent human rights report submitted to the United Nations The human rights crisis in Egypt has persisted and [ More … ]
As heavily armed Israeli soldiers stormed the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, at least nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed and about 20 wounded. The Palestinian Ministry of [ More … ]
After months of punishing inflation and a plummeting currency, Egyptians are growing louder about the crisis. In exchange for a bailout, the I.M.F. is imposing stern conditions on the government. “Around the time Egypt’s currency [ More … ]
‘Ultimately, poor Egyptian households faced substantial difficulties in 2022 that will set many back from graduating from poverty,’ a report by IFPRI states. A recent research paper by the International Food Policy Research Institute has [ More … ]
In a recent report, EIPR has documented the unfair trial and lack of evidence in last year’s convictions of Strong Egypt Party President Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh, his deputy Mohamed al-Qassas, and former student leader Moaz [ More … ]
The founder and former CEO of Egypt’s Juhayna Food Industries (JUFO.CA) and his son have been released after about two years in detention, reported Reuters. Safwan Thabet and his son, Seifeldin, were released from prison [ More … ]
An Egyptian military court has acquitted the officer at the army’s Air Force, who had been accused of assaulting the medical staff at Quesna Central Hospital in Menoufia Governorate, according to Ahmed Hamad, the family’s [ More … ]
An Egyptian terrorism court has handed life sentences to Egyptian actor and contractor Mohamed Ali and 37 others in connection with 2019 protests The protests then called for the resignation of Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [ More … ]
Sisi needs to shrink the role of the state and military-owned companies, suggests an opinion by the Financial Times’ editorial board. “For almost a decade, Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has promised his people that he [ More … ]
‘Without early presidential elections, and a major and fundamental reset in the regime’s brutal approach, Egypt will continue hurtling towards catastrophe’, says Egypt’s former investment minister. Yehia Hamed, the former investment minister who served in [ More … ]
Egypt hails $925 million of foreign-exchange inflows as a sign that the local currency devaluation is working In its statement, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said that “the amounts of trading in the interbank [ More … ]
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