A misguided effort to integrate Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) into the Sudanese Armed Forces led to a tragic but predictable conflict, states Foreign Policy. “Fighting in Sudan began on April 15 after years of [ More … ]
Israeli officials are reportedly concerned that the current dispute in Sudan could end prospects of a likely peace treaty between Israel and Sudan. Israel is using its relationships with the generals leading the Sudanese military [ More … ]
Washington’s insistence on staying in Syria under the pretext of “containing ISIS” is rather weak, says Fulbright scholar Ali Demirdas. The Iranian drone strike against the American military base in northern Syria that killed one [ More … ]
“Sisi is showing few signs of dismantling the military’s business interests, despite pressure from the IMF and Persian Gulf backers,” says Wall Street Journal. Under Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, a former general, the armed [ More … ]
The Economist suggests that donors should not keep bailing out Egypt, a state that only enriches men in khaki, the military. “To the list of spectacular ruins across Egypt, you can now add its economy. [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has vowed to reduce the military’s undue influence over the country’s economy as part of a new $3 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout, reported the Financial Times, citing a recent [ More … ]
Nurses in a hospital in Menoufia Governorate, north of Cairo, were brutally assaulted by the family of an officer in the Egyptian Air Force, before the officer later joined them, reported Arabi21. Local media circulated [ More … ]
Egyptian multi-billionaire and business tycoon Naguib Sawiris says involvement of state and army companies in business makes it unfair. Naguib Sawiris has warned that the government’s involvement in the private sector creates unfair competition and [ More … ]
Sudan’s military seized power on Monday, 24 Oct., dissolving the transitional government hours after troops arrested the acting prime minister and other officials, according to the Associated Press. Thousands of people flooded into the streets [ More … ]
The Egyptian cabinet has approved a decision put forward by Sisi to allocate 90,000 acres of state-owned land in the Rabaa and Bir Al-Abed areas of Sinai to the Army’s National Service Projects Organization (NSPO). [ More … ]
The Egyptian Public Prosecutor must urgently investigate what appear to be extrajudicial executions by members of the military in North Sinai, said Amnesty International following an analysis of a military propaganda video. A video released [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a decree offering exceptional pensions to non-commissioned officers and former conscripts in the Armed Forces and their dependents, adding to a series of military privileges that have been expanding since [ More … ]
The Egyptian opposition “Batel” campaign sent a message to commanders and officers of the Egyptian army, calling upon them to move to face what it described as the disasters caused by the coup leader Abdel-Fattah [ More … ]
The army spokesman says casualties include an officer but did not provide details on the number of those killed or wounded. Ten soldiers have been killed or wounded in a blast targeting an armoured vehicle [ More … ]
Egypt’s GDP has risen by 5.5 percent, with inflation declining to 11.3 percent. Nevertheless, the Egyptian people have not benefited from this positive trend and have grown increasingly frustrated in recent years. It is clear [ More … ]
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