Egyptian authorities have put the country in a state of high security alert after circulation of an online petition calling on Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to step down. According to the London-based The New Arab, ‘Egypt’s [ More … ]
Bahraini opposition groups have said they reject a decision by the Gulf state to normalize relations with Israel, with a leading Shi’ite cleric on Sunday calling on the region’s people to resist, Reuters reports. Cleric [ More … ]
Egyptian opposition prominent figures issued on Saturday, August 8, 2020, a statement addressed to the Egyptian people rejecting what they called “the crime of demarcating the maritime borders with Greece”, according to the statement. A [ 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 … ]
Egyptian opposition figures at home have announced their complete rejection of the new loan that Cairo intends to obtain from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to face the economic repercussions resulting from the outbreak of [ More … ]
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly renewed the mandate for a UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees for another three years amid misconduct allegations and a cash shortfall triggered by a halt in US [ More … ]
President Donald Trump shocked onlookers at the G7 meeting when he praised the president of Egypt as a dictator. “Inside a room of the ornately decorated Hotel du Palais during last month’s Group of Seven [ More … ]
The opposition and military council met at a ceremony on the Nile to sign ‘constitutional declaration’ Sudan’s main opposition coalition and the ruling military council on Saturday signed a landmark “constitutional declaration” paving the way [ More … ]
An Egyptian court has extended the pretrial detention of prominent opposition member and former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh for another 45 days on charges of communicating with entities opposed to the Egyptian state [ More … ]
The two sides initialled a document called the ‘Political Declaration’ after intense talks through the night Sudan’s opposition coalition and ruling generals signed an agreement on Wednesday intended to pave the pay to a power-sharing [ More … ]
Members of Al-Sisi’s own regime have joined Egypt’s opposition and the president is afraid, Director of the Egypt-based Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Bahey eldin Hassan has told an audience in London. This has [ More … ]
“Egyptian authorities rounded up at least five left-wing and liberal activists on Tuesday in the latest crackdown against dissent led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, ” said the Middle East Eye. According to human rights lawyers and the [ 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 … ]
In pursuit ond persecution of Egyptian opponents and their families both inside and outside Egypt, a pro-regime lawyer, Tariq Mahmoud, has filed a complaint to the Egyptian Prosecutor-General’s office, accusing TV anchor Moataz Matar and [ More … ]
A coalition of opposition parties on Wednesday urged Egyptians to vote against constitutional amendments that would potentially allow Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to remain in power until 2034. Egypt’s Parliament, which is packed with al-Sisi supporters, overwhelmingly [ More … ]
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