Trade unionists, labor rights lawyers, and workers organising strikes in Egypt are facing torture, mass firings and trials in military courts, according to a new report released today by Front Line Defenders in Paris. The [ More … ]
At the Nour Mosque in Abbasiya Square, in the heart of Cairo, the crowd were gathered waiting for detained blogger Shady Abu Zeid to attend his father’s funeral. The family of 25-year-old satirist and video [ More … ]
Egypt hosted its first ever regional gas forum on Monday, with several regional delegations attending alongside the Israeli energy minister, the first such visit by an Israeli Cabinet member since its 2011 Arab Spring uprising. [ More … ]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for regional unity against Iran in a speech in Cairo, one of several stops on his regional tour to reassure allies following President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement of [ More … ]
Egypt and Israel enjoy close military collaboration, agree on the need to block Iran and sign gas deals. But the gap between cooperation between governments and complete normalization is still large Egypt’s Urgent Matters Court [ More … ]
An Egyptian police officer shot and killed two Coptic Christian men – a father and son – in the province of Minya on December 12. But the murder was barely covered by the Egyptian media. [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi offered a rare acknowledgment of his close security cooperation with Israel in the Sinai peninsula during a U.S. television interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” news program broadcast on Sunday. The program [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi seized control of Egypt in the wake of an uprising against Mohamed Morsi’s regime. Since then, Sisi’s regime has imprisoned opponents and killed protesters American taxpayers send more foreign aid to Egypt [ More … ]
Rights group calls Egypt an ‘open-air prison’ for critics and calls on the Egyptian government to release people held for peacefully expressing opinions. In a new campaign launched by Amnesty International on Thursday, titled Egypt, [ More … ]
House Democrats sharply rebuked Egypt over its human rights record last Thursday, putting Cairo on a path to lose $300 million in military assistance this year. As part of a spending package for the rest [ More … ]
Photos have emerged showing a man shot dead in what appears to be an extrajudicial killing by Egyptian authorities, casting doubt on Egypt’s claim that it executed “terrorists” following Friday’s deadly attack. The photos – [ More … ]
Egyptian security teams reportedly made contacts in Manbij to coordinate steps taken against Turkey Things are heating up in Syria’s Manbij, located in the northeast of the Aleppo governorate, after U.S. President Donald Trump decided [ More … ]
To the many Egyptians who took to the streets in January 2011 to bring down former President Hosni Mubarak, Cairo is full of reminders of the country’s post-revolution failures. Tahrir Square is once again a [ More … ]
Ethiopia’s GERD dam is set to reshape the complex water politics of the Nile Basin – and ‘water stressed’ Egyptians will be the biggest losers There have been hold ups and reports of large cost [ More … ]
At least four people have been killed and another 10 injured after a roadside bomb exploded near a bus carrying Vietnamese tourists close to the pyramids in Giza. Three of the dead were Vietnamese and [ More … ]
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