The Economist suggests that donors should not keep bailing out Egypt, a state that only enriches men in khaki, the military. “To the list of spectacular ruins across Egypt, you can now add its economy. [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has vowed to reduce the military’s undue influence over the country’s economy as part of a new $3 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout, reported the Financial Times, citing a recent [ More … ]
Nurses in a hospital in Menoufia Governorate, north of Cairo, were brutally assaulted by the family of an officer in the Egyptian Air Force, before the officer later joined them, reported Arabi21. Local media circulated [ More … ]
Egyptian multi-billionaire and business tycoon Naguib Sawiris says involvement of state and army companies in business makes it unfair. Naguib Sawiris has warned that the government’s involvement in the private sector creates unfair competition and [ More … ]
Sudan’s military seized power on Monday, 24 Oct., dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the acting prime minister and other officials, according to the Associated Press. Thousands of people flooded into the streets [ More … ]
The Egyptian cabinet has approved a decision put forward by Sisi to allocate 90,000 acres of state-owned land in the Rabaa and Bir Al-Abed areas of Sinai to the Army’s National Service Projects Organization (NSPO). [ More … ]
The Egyptian Public Prosecutor must urgently investigate what appear to be extrajudicial executions by members of the military in North Sinai, said Amnesty International following an analysis of a military propaganda video. A video released [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a decree offering exceptional pensions to non-commissioned officers and former conscripts in the Armed Forces and their dependents, adding to a series of military privileges that have been expanding since [ More … ]
The Egyptian opposition “Batel” campaign sent a message to commanders and officers of the Egyptian army, calling upon them to move to face what it described as the disasters caused by the coup leader Abdel-Fattah [ More … ]
The army spokesman says casualties include an officer but did not provide details on the number of those killed or wounded. Ten soldiers have been killed or wounded in a blast targeting an armoured vehicle [ More … ]
Egypt’s GDP has risen by 5.5 percent, with inflation declining to 11.3 percent. Nevertheless, the Egyptian people have not benefited from this positive trend and have grown increasingly frustrated in recent years. It is clear [ More … ]
The controversy over the videos posted on Facebook by the Egyptian actor and contractor Mohamed Ali, who worked for 15 years with the army, turned into an electronic war between regime opponents and supporters of [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch’s two-year investigation documented crimes including mass arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial killings, and possibly unlawful air and ground attacks against civilians. Egyptian military and police forces in the Sinai Peninsula are [ More … ]
Egyptian Army says it also confiscated firearms and improvised explosive devices from fighters in the restive peninsula. Forty-seven fighters and five Egyptian soldiers were killed during Egypt’s ongoing military offensive in the restive Sinai Peninsula, [ 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 … ]
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