The mass trial of survivors of a massacre of pro-democracy protesters shames Egypt. Western powers should understand how autocracy is eating away at the Arab nation In its editorial, The Guardian expressed the newspaper’s view [ More … ]
Incitement on air .. Egyptian media incites to kill opposition figures in exile Pro-regime TV host and journalist Mohamed El-Baz has incited the killing of three Egyptian opposition figures abroad: Ayman Nour, leader of Ghad [ More … ]
BY: Abdel-Hafez Al-Sawi* Introduction The Egyptian parliament has recently ratified legislation to establish a sovereign fund called the “Egypt Fund”. The fund comes after government promises since 2016. Dr. Ashraf Al-Arabi, Minister of Planning, was [ More … ]
In her first speech to the UN Human Right’s Council (OHCHR), the body’s new head, Michelle Bachelet, said she was “shocked” by the death sentences handed down to 75 people in Egypt after a mass [ More … ]
An Egyptian court has sentenced 75 people to death, including senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood over a sit-in protest in Cairo that ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters. Senior Brotherhood leaders Essam el-Erian [ More … ]
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed off on the release of $US 1.2 billion in foreign military financing to Egypt as reported by Associated Press. A statement by US State Department announced that Pompeo [ More … ]
A joint venture between Spain’s Naturgy and Italy’s Eni has been awarded a $2bn settlement from Egypt over gas supplies by a World Bank arbitration body, in a move that could accelerate the resumption of [ More … ]
Dramatic water shortage hits Egyptian farmers amid the ongoing problems of the Nile Delta. Last May, the European Parliament released a report titled:” A stable Egypt for a stable region: Socio-economic challenges and prospects “about the challenges that [ More … ]
Cairo is an old hand at playing the East and West off each other – for its own profit, says a report by Foreign Policy Egypt Loves China’s Deep Pockets Gamal Abdel Nasser, former president [ More … ]
A wave of legal complaints by pro-government lawyers have been filed against Egyptian leftist leader Hamdeen Sabahi after calling for regime change. During a press conference on Monday, Sabahi condemned last week’s arrest of six [ More … ]
Holidaymakers evacuated from an Egyptian hotel where a British couple mysteriously died said today that dozens fell ill but no-one knows why – as a lawyer said the tragedy ‘smacks of a cover-up.’ British holidaymakers have [ More … ]
An Egyptian former diplomat was detained by authorities in Cairo on Thursday, just two weeks after calling for a referendum on Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government, said family members. “Security forces took my father, Maasoum Marzouk, [ More … ]
Egypt’s Al-Sisi has ratified a new draconian cybercrime law that rights groups say paves the way for censoring online media. The law, published Saturday in the country’s official gazette, empowers authorities to order the blocking [ More … ]
Egypt is considering purchasing two Meko A200 frigates from Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) as discussions with France’s Naval Group on the acquisition of further Gowind corvettes grinds to a halt over cost concerns. France’s [ More … ]
Half a decade after ‘ Rabaa massacre ‘ the deadly crackdown of supporters of the first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi, human rights activists still call for probe. Five years ago, Egypt witnessed one of the [ More … ]
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