Despite its pro-business talk, the army grabs whatever it wants. In fact, part of the blame is on the IMF for allowing this situation to fester Under Egypt’s military rulers Juhayna, the giant Egyptian dairy [ More … ]
Egypt has detained two prominent activists who played key roles in the 2011 revolution, activists and a rights group said, the latest in a wave of arrests in recent weeks. Blogger and journalist Esraa Abdel [ More … ]
Protests were staged overnight in Cairo and other Egyptian cities calling for the removal of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, but authorities quickly dispersed them and arrested dozens, a security source said. Hundreds of citizens took to [ More … ]
The hashtag #كفايه_بقى_ياسيسى (That’s enough Sisi) has gone viral after Egyptian actor and property tycoon Mohamed Ali released a video calling on Egyptians to flood social media with it and pressure Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to step [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on allegations of corruption within the army and government were “lies and slander”, in his first public response to graft accusations that have gone viral online. “I swear to God, [ More … ]
The owner of Amlak Contracting, Mohammed Ali, has been accused of ‘high treason’ for a video he posted on Facebook detailing corruption in Sisi’s regime An Egyptian lawyer on Wednesday demanded a military contractor should [ More … ]
Based on new official figures released in Egypt, 32 percent of Egyptians live in poverty. This phenomenon of rising poverty amid high growth is reminiscent of the situation just before the uprising in 2011, when [ More … ]
Egypt’s Al-Sisi has issued a resolution allocating 47 state-owned islands in the Red Sea to the army, stating that the land is of strategic military importance. Most of the islands are currently used for tourism [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned authorities in Kuwait for “unlawfully” returning eight Egyptians to Cairo over claims they were part of a “terrorist cell” linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. The New York-based rights group [ More … ]
Although al-Sisi’s claim that is Egypt is going on the right path, however, to many observers, Al-Sisi is making the situation even worse than during Mubarak’s era. This week in Foreign Policy,an American news publication, [ More … ]
As critics call the new capital a vanity project for al-Sisi, they say the money could have been used to help the economy and to rebuild Cairo, however, other analysts believe the new capital will [ More … ]
A new package of austerity measures was announced by the Egyptian government on November 7, in response to ballooning public debt. The measures included liberalizing the price of bread flour as of January 1, 2019, [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s unsurprising 97 percent win, announced Monday after a widely-derided sham election, asserts the recession of civil environment in Egypt and thus, reaffirms the exponential power of the military’s influence in nearly every facet [ More … ]
As Egypt approaches its presidential election this month, its allies and critics have largely reconciled themselves to the inevitable reelection of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. The regime has aggressively culled the field of potential competitors through intimidation, [ More … ]
Egyptian presidential elections expected to be dominated by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi next month will be “neither free nor fair”, more than a dozen human rights groups said Tuesday. “The Egyptian government has trampled over even [ More … ]
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