Egypt faces an economic crisis that risks fuelling unrest. The International Monetary Fund demands reforms in return for loans, while the authorities seek to broaden their base through a much-criticised national dialogue. Foreign partners should [ More … ]
Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah Sisi agreed to reappoint ambassadors to revive Turkish-Egyptian ties following a phone call on Monday. Sisi called Erdogan to congratulate him on his election victory, according to the [ More … ]
‘The only winner is Türkiye,’ President Erdogan said in his election victory speech, as the veteran leader’s new tenure ushers in a new era in Turkey, after a presidential race watched by the world A [ More … ]
In the first round of the Turkish presidential elections held on May 14, neither candidate crossed the 50-percent mark for an outright win, triggering an unprecedented run-off vote. On Sunday, 28 May, at 8:00 am. [ More … ]
The Egyptian government has so far failed to show commitment to adopting and carrying out structural reform, a situation that warns of a lasting crisis looming. The IMF is yet to agree a date with [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities have widely deployed a videoconference system since 2022 to remotely conduct pretrial detention hearings and permanently avoid bringing detainees to court in person, Human Rights Watch said in a report. HRW stresss [ More … ]
Egypt has postponed payments for its large wheat purchases, in some cases by months, reported Reuters, citing a government official and traders. Egypt, which grapples with a shortage of hard currency, is one of the [ More … ]
An Egyptian human rights group says that during more than nine months, Egyptian authorities renewed the pre-trial detention of over 20,000 people. The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) has announced that it recorded that [ More … ]
An Egyptian court on Monday referred the case papers to the Mufti to state his legal opinion, albeit non-bounding, where the court can issue its final verdict without his consent. The Cairo Criminal Court on [ More … ]
The country’s industries are struggling to fund imports and lure investors amid foreign currency crisis that is stifling business. Egyptian entrepreneurs have warned that uncertainty over the exchange rate is suffocating business and impeding their [ More … ]
About 500,000 million Turkish nationals abroad have cast their votes in the country’s foreign missions and customs gates in the second round of the country’s presidential election scheduled for May 28 at home, reported Anadolu [ More … ]
The Iranian judiciary on Friday stated that three men were executed after being convicted of participating in the most recent protests. It added that Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaqoubi were executed in the [ More … ]
The official sessions of the national dialogue kicked off on May 14 under a cloud of mistrust amid ongoing persecution of regime critics Former Karama (Dignity) Party head Ahmed Tantawi left Egypt last year after [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have arbitrarily detained women and girls related to suspected members of the ISIS affiliate in North Sinai, some for months or years, Human Rights Watch and the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights said. [ More … ]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday oversaw, via video-link, the signing of a deal to finance and build an Iranian railway line as part of an embryonic international North-South [ More … ]
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