The global crises, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian war on Ukraine have magnified the fragility of the country’s state-driven economic model and forced it to take out new multilateral loans “When Egypt was [ More … ]
With the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war on Feb. 24, 2022, Egypt’s food security crisis now poses an existential threat to its economy, says Michael Tanchum, an American researcher and academic. Professor Michaël Tanchum, a [ More … ]
Yehia Hamed, Egypt’s former investment minister, has published an opinion article on the London-based Middle East Eye, addressing the economic situation in Egypt, where “With the economy in shambles and millions of people mired in [ More … ]
At the press conference he organized ahead of his visit to the NATO Leaders’ Summit in Brussels, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, “Turkey is the only reliable country that can prudently manage the situation in [ More … ]
Sisi’s regime has decided to sell the bulk of government procured COVID-19 vaccines, rather than provide them for free. BY; MAGED MANDOUR The two-dose Astra Zeneca inoculation will be sold for 100-200 Egyptian pounds (EGP), though [ More … ]
Cairo may be looking to score tactical gains by using Ankara to regain its own value in the eyes of its partners Last month, Egypt announced a new oil-and-gas exploration bid round in the Eastern Mediterranean. It notably [ More … ]
Ankara and Cairo never let their differences get in the way of trade. That’s now paying off. Turkey’s government is seeking a thaw in relations with the Arab world after a long cold spell. Ankara [ More … ]
The UAE’s drawdown from its Assab military base in Eritrea comes as the new Biden administration is re-evaluating America’s commitment to the War in Yemen. By: Andreas Krieg* However, as much as the UAE’s retreat from Yemen [ More … ]
Egyptian security forces raided the homes of six relatives of an outspoken Egyptian American activist, arresting and imprisoning two cousins in defiance of calls by the Biden administration for the Egyptian government to improve its [ More … ]
The hopes of a decade ago are long gone, shattered by the former army chief who was backed by western powers, says Dr. Darrag[i], a former Egyptian minister. In 2011, I, like most Egyptians at [ More … ]
Many experts and commentators have written in recent months, with the benefit of hindsight, about the errors, shortcomings, and near total failures of the unprecedented revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa that erupted [ More … ]
In the six years since Abdel Fatah al-Sisi assumed the presidency in Egypt, the country has devolved into the deepest human rights crisis it has experienced in decades. In the face of this downward spiral, it’s not [ More … ]
Ethiopia‘s Renaissance Dam could displace millions of Egyptians and Sisi should be held fully responsible for this national disaster, an article by David Hearst in the Middle East Eye states. Hearst says the disaster of [ More … ]
After five years of conflict, the crisis in Yemen has reached an unprecedented level whereby children are battling life and death. UNICEF has declared a state of emergency for Yemeni children who are facing starvation [ More … ]
Today is the day that Israel declared it will launch the final step of its plan – which it has been implementing for years as it clashes with the rest of humanity – to “annex” [ More … ]
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