European leaders are off to Sharm el Sheikh, where they will continue to endorse the worst dictator Egypt has seen in modern times Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has been busy on the international circuit. [ More … ]
Australian man Hazem Hamouda has “vanished” in Egypt after failing to turn up at a police station where he was due to be released after languishing in one of Egypt’s most notorious prisons for more [ More … ]
Al-Sisi’s regime executed nine men for killing Egypt’s top prosecutor, a prison source and a lawyer said on Wednesday. The men were among a group of 28 who were sentenced to death in the case [ More … ]
David D. Kirkpatrick was Cairo bureau chief for The New York Times between 2011 and 2015, and is the author of a recent book on the country. Egyptian officials detained a New York Times correspondent [ More … ]
Yellow vests have become the symbol of an ongoing protest movement in France Rights group Amnesty International called Monday for the release of an Egyptian lawyer arrested after posing in a photo wearing a yellow [ More … ]
Mahmoud Al-Sisi, the son of Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, has been holding marathon meetings within the General Intelligence Service (GIS) while seeking to extend his father’s presidency, the New York Times has reported. The GIS [ More … ]
Egypt’s parliament voted to lift term limits from president, allowing Sisi to rule till 2034 Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, has moved one step closer to staying in power until 2034 after parliament advanced a bill that [ More … ]
US organization Freedom House has ranked Egypt 126th out of 195 countries when it comes to public freedoms. According to a new report by the organization based on 2018 data, Egypt and Sri Lanka “are [ More … ]
Desperate to reach Europe, migrants from Africa are travelling to Egypt and selling body parts to pay for their passage, according to a Guardian report. Wearing a baseball hat and smoking a shisha pipe in [ More … ]
Egypt’s annual urban consumer price inflation increased to 12.7 percent in January from 12.0 percent in December, as recorded by the CAPMAS statistics agency, though the data was unlikely to quell speculation the central bank [ More … ]
Lar month, on January 31, the Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev paid a visit to Abu Dhabi to meet with the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The two exchanged views on [ More … ]
The Egyptian government canceled a contract with a top US lobbying firm days after the American broadcaster CBS grilled Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi about his human rights record, a report has revealed. According to Al-Monitor, [ More … ]
Egyptians authorities executed 3 political prisoners today.Ahmed Elhendawy. Almoataz Alattar. Abdelhamid Metwally. Their families were supposed to visit them in prison today but the prison authorities told them they won’t see them because they are [ More … ]
Egyptian opposition parties have formed a coalition against proposed changes to the constitution that would allow Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to stay in office well beyond the end of his current term in 2022, two opposition leaders [ More … ]
At the time news spreads that Egypt will consider extending the presidential term allowing al-Sisi to stay in power beyond 2022, Open Democracy describe Egypt to be living a Horror Story. A report titled: Egypt:A [ More … ]
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