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 human rights crisis has persisted and even worsened over the last three years, according to a recent human rights report submitted to the United Nations The human rights crisis in Egypt has persisted and [ More … ]
After months of punishing inflation and a plummeting currency, Egyptians are growing louder about the crisis. In exchange for a bailout, the I.M.F. is imposing stern conditions on the government. “Around the time Egypt’s currency [ More … ]
‘Ultimately, poor Egyptian households faced substantial difficulties in 2022 that will set many back from graduating from poverty,’ a report by IFPRI states. A recent research paper by the International Food Policy Research Institute has [ More … ]
In a recent report, EIPR has documented the unfair trial and lack of evidence in last year’s convictions of Strong Egypt Party President Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh, his deputy Mohamed al-Qassas, and former student leader Moaz [ More … ]
An Egyptian military court has acquitted the officer at the army’s Air Force, who had been accused of assaulting the medical staff at Quesna Central Hospital in Menoufia Governorate, according to Ahmed Hamad, the family’s [ More … ]
An Egyptian terrorism court has handed life sentences to Egyptian actor and contractor Mohamed Ali and 37 others in connection with 2019 protests The protests then called for the resignation of Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [ More … ]
Sisi needs to shrink the role of the state and military-owned companies, suggests an opinion by the Financial Times’ editorial board. “For almost a decade, Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has promised his people that he [ More … ]
‘Without early presidential elections, and a major and fundamental reset in the regime’s brutal approach, Egypt will continue hurtling towards catastrophe’, says Egypt’s former investment minister. Yehia Hamed, the former investment minister who served in [ More … ]
Egypt hails $925 million of foreign-exchange inflows as a sign that the local currency devaluation is working In its statement, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said that “the amounts of trading in the interbank [ More … ]
Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hokings University says Egypt’s inflation is estimated at a stunning 85% a year, unlike much lower official inflation rates. Acoording to a press release on January 10th. by the [ More … ]
The Egyptian national dialogue sessions will begin in the “next few days,” according to Al Ahram newspaper, citing the dialogue’s coordinator, Diaa Rashwan. Egypt’s National Dialogue coordinator Diaa Rashwan announced on Thursday that the dialogue [ More … ]
Debt-ridden Jordan is following Egypt’s lead by planning a new administrative capital in the desert near Amman while Jordanians are struggling in the kingdom’s wheezing economy. Jordan’s King Abdullah has recently told Jordanian ministers to [ 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 … ]
Kuwaiti foreign ministry has called on Egypt to investigate an “assault” on a number of Kuwaiti students by security personnel at a mall in Alexandria. Kuwait’s ministry of foreign affairs called on Sunday for the [ More … ]
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