Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has sworn that he would step down from office if he loses next year’s “presidential election” under his repressive military rule. During a question and answer session at a youth conference, [ More … ]
Health officials said that at least 435 students fell ill of suspected food poisoning in public schools across Egypt in the past two days after consuming government-issued school meals, according to Associated Press. 312 students in schools [ More … ]
Hoover institution, described as conservative think tank, has released a report titled: “US-Egypt Strategic Relations from Obama to Trump: What Went Wrong and What Might Be Possible?” which evaluates the US-Egyptian relations during Obama administration [ More … ]
On the National Mall in Washington DC, Trump has been inaugurated after being sworn as the 45th President of America. After inauguration, the White House announced an immediate policy to unite civilized world “to defeat and [ More … ]
Days after al-Arish residents threatened a civil disobedience to protest the extrajudicial Killing of youths by the Egyptian security forces, news were circulated on the social media about the disappearance of three police officers. The [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi named six new provincial governors on Wednesday, in a series of appointments that extended the influence of the military and security forces, reported Reuters. Five of the six new governors held senior [ More … ]
A security source in Giza General Directorate stated that the Egyptian security forces have increased their presence around Imbaba police station after the protest of dozens of the family of a young man whose body was [ More … ]
Amnesty International has released a new report saying that hundreds of Egyptians have been forcibly disappeared and tortured in a “sinister” campaign to wipe out peaceful dissent in the most populous country in the Arab [ More … ]
Despite the slogans that were chanted during January 25 Revolution in 2011 calling for ” bread, freedom and social justice”, however, Egypt is still living in what was called by Reuter’s Fortune as “The Economic Winter”. Egypt [ More … ]
Under Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s military regime, prominent political opposition as the Muslim Brotherhood and their grassroots activists are imprisoned, growing media is censored, and journalists and human rights activists are repressed. However, one of the [ More … ]
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry considered that Turkey’s comments on the judicial sentences handed down against President Mohamed Morsi are a setback for future bilateral positive relations. In an iftar meeting with the editors-in-chief of [ More … ]
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