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 … ]
Two protagonists of Egypt’s recent history faced each other in court on Wednesday, with toppled strongman Hosni Mubarak testifying for the first time against Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi. Overthrown during the 2011 [ More … ]
Egypt was listed in the third position after Congo and Afghanistan among countries most likely to experience a new mass killing in 2018 or 2019, according to a new forecast by The Early Warning Project’s [ More … ]
Egyptians have been cracking jokes on social media after Abdel Fattah al-Sisi went on a 20-minute televised rant complaining about the country’s obesity crisis. In televised comments earlier this month, the general-turned-president railed about the [ More … ]
Although al-Sisi’s claim that is Egypt is going on the right path, however, to many observers, Al-Sisi is making the situation even worse than during Mubarak’s era. This week in Foreign Policy,an American news publication, [ More … ]
Egyptian security forces are preparing to launch an extensive campaign of arrests ahead of the eighth anniversary of the 25 January revolution. According to Egyptian security sources, the campaign will target members of the Muslim [ More … ]
Egypt’s leader silences the West by claiming to fight terrorism while at home his economy collapses, civil society grows atomised and violence is starting to spread Egypt’s decision to host its first international weapons fair, which [ More … ]
News has been circulating about constitutional amendments that would extend the term of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in order to prepare the citizens for such prospects. In fact, it was an expected move after al-Sisi had [ More … ]
General Abdelfattah El-Sisi, the autocratic dictator of Egypt and good friend of Donald Trump, has more in common with the president of the U.S. than his autocratic methods. Like Trump, he has been putting his [ More … ]
Talks between Egypt and Chinese builder CFLD for a $20 billion development in the new administrative capital have fallen through over disagreements on how to share revenue from the project, Egyptian officials said, according to [ More … ]
Three times more journalists were jailed this year on “false news” charges than in 2016 — and Egypt led the way, reported Poynter. According to a new report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists on [ More … ]
The EU’s lawmaking body has condemned Egyptian authorities for human rights abuses and is urging them to lift restrictions on free speech and assembly, halt mass trials and stop sentencing minors to death, and release [ More … ]
An Egyptian prosecutor ordered on Tuesday that a lawyer to be detained for 15 days after the publication of a picture of him wearing a yellow vest similar to those worn by protesters in France, a [ More … ]
An Egyptian court has agreed to hear a challenge to the two-term limit for the presidency, a potential first step towards changing the constitution to allow Abdel Fattah el-Sisi a third term as president. [ More … ]
Egypt must ensure no one is subjected to reprisal in relation to Special Procedures missions. Resettlement and compensation of those evicted must comply with international human rights law, says a report by UN Special Rapporteur on the [ More … ]
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