New members added to the bloc from Africa are linked by their opposition to a Western-dominated financial system, states Nosmot Gbadamosi of the Foreign Policy. Last week’s announcement that the BRICS grouping will expand—adding Argentina, [ More … ]
Sudanese military ruler General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met his Egyptian counterpart on Tuesday in his first trip abroad since the April outbreak of war in Sudan, a day after rejecting calls for fresh negotiations. The [ More … ]
Egypt did not see material change in Ethiopia’s stance on GERD during Cairo talks, says Egyptian Irrigation Ministry. According to a statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources on Monda, Egypt did [ More … ]
The private plane found with more than $5m (£4m) in cash, fake gold, guns and ammunition on board is at the center of a deepening investigation in the Zambian capital, Lusaka. A report by BBC [ More … ]
Egypt’s stock exchange plans to launch an Islamic index by November, states Egyptian Financial Regulatory Authority. Egypt has permitted local companies to issue multiple sukuk (Islamic bonds) issuances with just single regulatory approval and without [ More … ]
Although Cairo hopes its entry to the BRICS block will lure foreign cash, however, analysts counsel patience The Egyptian government hopes its imminent inclusion in the BRICS bloc of developing nations will help ease its [ More … ]
A number of human rights groups and individuals have released a joint statement “In Solidarity with Egyptian Fact-Checking and Independent Media Platform Matsadaash”. In their statement, the signatories stressed that independent journalism, open-source investigative work, [ More … ]
Egyptian journalist Ahmed Gamal Ziada announced on Wednesday that his father has been detained, after he had disappeared for nearly 24 hours. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty demand Cairo to release Ahmed Gamal Ziada’s father, [ More … ]
Egyptian government critic Hisham Qassem was detained after he tweeted ‘I am cleaner than Sisi’, refusing to pay bail for a defamation case. Egypt’s public prosecution on Monday charged the publisher and government critic Hisham Qassem [ More … ]
Alaa Eladly’s daughter ‘Fagr’ chanted against Sisi during a press conference with Merkel eight years ago. She believes the arrest is linked to her opposition to Egyptian leader The father of a German woman who [ More … ]
Knight Frank suggests that sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East could infuse up to $120 billion into Egypt over the next few years. Knight Frank, one of the world’s leading independent real estate consultancies, [ More … ]
Egyptian security forces arrested journalist Karim Assaad after reporting on the identity of several officials allegedly aboard plane seized in Zambia carrying millions of dollars in cash, gold, and weapons Egyptian security forces detained a [ More … ]
Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure in 2011 uprising, has been granted a presidential pardon, lawyers say. Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned a number of prisoners, including prominent Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, the [ More … ]
Family of Dr. Salah Soltan, the academic detained in Egypt, accuse US of breaking pledge to help release him. Dr. Soltan, a US green card holder and critic of Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi, says he faces death [ More … ]
Frequent outages helped turn opinion against Egypt’s first democratically elected leader, President Mohamed Morsi, before Sisi led his ouster in July 2013. Now, echoes of that time, according to critics, are prominent in the power [ More … ]
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