Photo: Reuters Rafah border area inhabitants are upset after the Egyptian army has been pumping large volumes of Mediterranean Sea waters into the buffer zone that it began building two years ago, along 14 kilometers of the [ More … ]
In the report “Look for another homeland” the international Human Rights organisation Human Rights Watch focus on the illegal evictions of the inhabitats of Rafah in Egypt. “Between July 2013 and August 2015, Egyptian authorities [ More … ]
The Egyptian military has begun to pump water from the Mediterranean Sea into underground smuggling tunnels that connect Gaza Strip with Egypt, security officials and eye witnesses said. The operation is a cooperation between Israel [ More … ]
The Egyptian army may have broken international law by forcibly evicting more than 3,000 families in the Rafah area, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports. The 84-page report, “Look for Another Homeland,” documents the Egyptian government’s [ More … ]
In an opinion editorial the New York Times is asking: What went wrong in Egypt? “The world got an alarming look at Egypt’s bumbling war against extremism this week after a military helicopter attacked a [ More … ]
Amid the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 a senior prince in the United Arab Emirates allegedly plotted a palace coup to overthrow the country’s leaders and transform the autocratic Gulf state into a constitutional monarchy. [ More … ]
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