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 … ]
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 … ]
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 role of human rights conditions in U.S. military assistance to Egypt has been explained by a fact sheet issued by POMED. The fact sheet, “Human Rights Conditions on U.S. Military Aid to Egypt Under [ More … ]
As Egypt slides deeper and deeper into economic crisis, Saudi officials have sent a stern message: No more blank checks, states New YorkTimes. “For much of the past decade, Saudi Arabia sent billions of dollars [ More … ]
Amid an acute economic crisis, the Egyptian population has been crushed between the low income and the rising household expenses, where inflation has inflicted additional pain on ordinary people. “The increasing costs of living helped [ More … ]
The American FY 2023 appropriations bill has been released, with more conditions placed on the military aid for Egypt, as the Congress has again strengthened the aid conditions. The U. S. Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations [ More … ]
US Senator Chris Murphy has explained to the Senate why the Biden administration should withhold aid to the Egyptian government over significant human rights abuses. “Has Egypt made significant progress on human rights? “Of those [ More … ]
Instead of decrying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Sisi phones Putin on “strategic partnership”. Meanwhile, the United States will again provide $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt—the same amount Congress has appropriated since 1987. As [ More … ]
The Biden administration has decided to deny $130 million of military aid allocated for Egypt over the country’s failure to comply with human rights conditions laid out by the State Department, according to a senior [ More … ]
USAID and the International Cooperation Ministry has announced that the United States will give Egypt seven grants worth $125 million to support education, health and other development projects. These reports come less than two months [ More … ]
The Biden administration is releasing nearly $200 million in military aid to Egypt but will hold back millions more over human rights concerns, the State Department said Tuesday in an announcement quickly criticized by rights [ More … ]
This move from the Biden administration is a compromise that may disappoint some activists but nonetheless is arguably more human-rights-friendly than in the past. The Biden administration has decided it will hold back some — [ More … ]
A growing US partisan divide over Israel-Palestine and a gap between public opinion and policymakers Most Americans and a significant majority of Democrats oppose unrestricted military aid to Israel if it continues to expand settlements in the occupied [ More … ]
About 600 families have been displaced by heavy rains and flooding in one week across Yemen, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) found that at least 596 [ More … ]
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