In late April, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would seek to have the State Department designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). How Designating It Would Undermine the United States. By: [ More … ]
Egypt’s youth should find a way to put aside their differences in favour of becoming a unified front in the face of oppression, writes Karsen Breanne. In the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, the shabab [ More … ]
Letter from parents of Italian student murdered in 2016 urges Egyptian president to extradite suspects The parents of Giulio Regeni, the Italian student murdered in Cairo three years ago, have written to the Egyptian president [ More … ]
Egypt’s Court of Cassation, the highest appeals court, has upheld the death sentence handed down to 13 defendants on a charge of murder and committing acts of violence, raising the number of final death sentences [ More … ]
Egypt has demanded from the transitional military council in Sudan to hand over Muslim Brotherhood leaders, end border dispute on Halaa’ib and Shalatin triangle, and suspend Suakin agreement with Turkey. Egypt demanded that the transitional [ More … ]
The constitutional change paving the way for coup-plotter Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who took hostage his own country and people with armed forces, to physically preside over the Egyptian people until 2030 has been completed with no [ More … ]
Egypt’s latest referendum results reveal as much as they conceal. Egypt has just passed constitutional amendments in a hastily-arranged referendum that ended on April 22. They are important mostly because they will advance President Abdel-Fattah [ More … ]
Banners line streets of Cairo telling citizens to vote to extend presidency of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi Polling stations across Cairo filled with people as Egyptians voted in a snap referendum expected to allow President Abdel [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi blocked access to opposition websites, introduced draconian penalties and vowed to punish journalists ahead of vote As the world watches the peaceful revolution that is changing Sudan in awe and amazement, it [ More … ]
The Egyptian Parliament is expected to adopt earlier this week a constitutional reform that will eradicate the latest achievements of the 2011 revolution and allow Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to remain in power until. . . [ More … ]
A new scandal by the Egyptian regime Internet providers in Egypt are blocking access to an estimated 34,000 internet domains in an apparent bid to stamp out an opposition campaign launched last week under the [ More … ]
Warlord also understood to have private support of Saudi Arabia and the UAE Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan warlord bombarding Tripoli in an attempt to oust the country’s UN-recognized government, has won unequivocal support from the [ More … ]
In the space of little more than a week, two long-ruling autocrats in the Arab world succumbed to people power. First, it was Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the wheelchair-bound figurehead of an entrenched regime who [ More … ]
Egypt has reportedly decided to pull out of a U.S.-led effort to create an initiative with key Arab allies, Reuters reported Wednesday. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that Egypt had announced its decision [ More … ]
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