Gamal Ziada, father of human rights defender Ahmed Ziada, was released from a 28-day detention for his son’s outspoken criticism of the Egyptian government The father of Belgium-based Egyptian journalist and human rights advocate Ahmed [ More … ]
Egypt will switch to sourcing almost half a million tons of wheat from France and Bulgaria, after Moscow blocked the supply of Russian grain, according to people familiar with the matter, reported Bloomberg. Moscow objected [ More … ]
Seven Egyptian soldiers were killed last Sunday night, in a mysterious explosion in an air defense base in North Sinai Governorate, east of the country, reported al-araby al-Jadeed. An Islamic State-linked insurgency has brewed for [ More … ]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has overruled congressional restrictions on U.S. military aid tied to Egypt’s dismal human rights record Prioritizing U.S. national security interests over human rights, the Biden administration has approved $235 [ More … ]
Hisham Kassem, the prominent critic of the Sisi government, was convicted of slander, defamation and verbally assaulting a police officer according to Egyptian rights group. An Egyptian court has sentenced political activist Hisham Kassem to [ More … ]
The United States will provide security assistance to Egypt despite the repression practiced by the Sisi regime against dissent, says Human Rights Watch. Doing so, the rights watchdog states, the Biden Administration is waiving human [ More … ]
Egypt is considering holding presidential elections before the end of 2023, according to people familiar with the matter, an earlier than expected date as the North African nation of 105 million people grapples with its [ More … ]
The United States plans to withhold $85 million in military aid to Egypt because of Cairo’s failure to meet the U.S. conditions on freeing political prisoners and other issues, reported Reuters, citing a congressional notification [ More … ]
A series of leaked videos from inside one of Egypt’s newly constructed prisons has raised serious concerns among rights groups and activists about the conditions of political prisoners, including lack of medical attention, solitary confinement, [ More … ]
Egypt has been dependent on bailouts from wealthy Gulf countries and the IMF in recent years, while investors have withdrawn billions of foreign reserves Egypt is the second most country at risk of a debt [ More … ]
Egyptian inflation has soared to a fresh record, with consumer costs now increasingly at the mercy of whether authorities will allow the pound to weaken again, reported Bloomberg. Price growth in urban parts of the [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have carried out a wave of arrests targeting critics ahead of a pivotal American decision on military aid. This is “seen as a key indicator of how the Biden administration will balance security [ More … ]
The Egyptian government is killing the history of a historic city of the dead, the famous grave site of Imam al-Shafi’i Cairo’s City of the Dead—a vast Islamic-era necropolis located at the foot of the Mokattam [ More … ]
The continued persecution of activists brings into question the legitimacy of claims made by Egypt’s Abdel Fatah al-Sisi that the state is trying to engage with the opposition through the so-called national dialogue initiated earlier [ More … ]
Poultry production declined by 20%, from 4 million broilers per day to only 800,000, reported Mada Masr Mada Masr also said that there is a relative decline in poultry and fodder prices due to a [ More … ]
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