European leaders are off to Sharm el Sheikh, where they will continue to endorse the worst dictator Egypt has seen in modern times Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has been busy on the international circuit. [ 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 … ]
We finished our last column by asking, “I wonder what Macron, whose democracy is on its deathbed thanks to the protests of the yellow vests, hopes to gain from Sisi who turned a democratic protest [ More … ]
As deadly anti-government protests enter their sixth week in Sudan, Egypt has announced its full support for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in what could indicate improved relations between the countries. However, some sources say this [ More … ]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) unveils portraits of Egyptian journalists jailed by the Sisi regime in Cairo While French President Emmanuel Macron prepares was to go on a state visit to Cairo on 27 January, Reporters [ More … ]
On the eighth anniversary of the 25 January revolution, a group of Egyptian opposition in exile voices concern about the state of the nation today The Middle East Eye published today (25 January) an article [ More … ]
Egypt’s coup leader Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi is going to preside over the African Union for a year. Sisi was elected as term president last year after Rwanda’s president left his post. African Union term presidencies are [ More … ]
Eight years have passed since the outbreak of Egypt’s January Revolution in 2011, but the situation in Egypt has even become much worse than ever before. Thousands of Egyptians, young and old, marched on the [ More … ]
An Egyptian police officer shot and killed two Coptic Christian men – a father and son – in the province of Minya on December 12. But the murder was barely covered by the Egyptian media. [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi seized control of Egypt in the wake of an uprising against Mohamed Morsi’s regime. Since then, Sisi’s regime has imprisoned opponents and killed protesters American taxpayers send more foreign aid to Egypt [ More … ]
Rights group calls Egypt an ‘open-air prison’ for critics and calls on the Egyptian government to release people held for peacefully expressing opinions. In a new campaign launched by Amnesty International on Thursday, titled Egypt, [ More … ]
House Democrats sharply rebuked Egypt over its human rights record last Thursday, putting Cairo on a path to lose $300 million in military assistance this year. As part of a spending package for the rest [ More … ]
To the many Egyptians who took to the streets in January 2011 to bring down former President Hosni Mubarak, Cairo is full of reminders of the country’s post-revolution failures. Tahrir Square is once again a [ More … ]
Egypt’s leader silences the West by claiming to fight terrorism while at home his economy collapses, civil society grows atomised and violence is starting to spread Egypt’s decision to host its first international weapons fair, which [ More … ]
General Abdelfattah El-Sisi, the autocratic dictator of Egypt and good friend of Donald Trump, has more in common with the president of the U.S. than his autocratic methods. Like Trump, he has been putting his [ More … ]
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