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Egypt: Activists Mohamed Adel and Mahmoud Hussein face state persecution

September 7, 2023 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt: No one is claiming the cash and fake gold seized onboard the Zambia plane

August 28, 2023 MEO Staff

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: Amid terrifying debts, dollars and gold are smuggled in private planes

August 16, 2023 MEO Staff

Zambia has seized a private plane coming from Egypt carrying $5.7m in cash, as well as gold, at a time when the country is facing a crucial financial crisis. Several reports have been circulated that [ More … ]

Tourists stranded in Cairo & Egyptian students stuck in Kiev – paradox of regime’s attitude

March 1, 2022 MEO Staff

At a time when all world countries are making unremitting efforts to evacuate their nationals in light of the latest developments of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis and the beginning of the intensive Russian invasion of Ukrainian [ More … ]

Sudan: the army takes power in a coup, arrests prime minister

October 25, 2021 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Tunisia’s democracy is in crisis, President accused of a coup

July 26, 2021 MEO Staff

Tunisian President Kais Saied has sacked the government and frozen the parliament in one of Tunisia’s biggest political crises since the 2011 revolution that introduced democracy. President accused of attack on Tunisian democracy after sacking [ More … ]

Israel continues its assault on Gaza for the second week in a row

May 17, 2021 MEO Staff

Death toll of civilians, including children and women is escalating in Gaza, amid the continued Israeli bombardment of buildings and infrastructure utilities in the Strip Amid mounting international calls for a ceasefire, Israel has continued [ More … ]

Egypt facing a health crisis due to decline in numbers of doctors

February 24, 2021 MEO Staff

The health sector in Egypt is facing multiple ongoing crises due to a sharp decline in the number of doctors, local and international media have reported. Financial problems have been cited as a reason for [ More … ]

Wide International Support calling for the release of the political prisoners in Egypt

January 31, 2021 MEO Staff

A number of prominent public figures, activists, Human rights advocates and journalists worldwide have joined the ‘Ifrag’ campaign for the release of the elderly and patients in Egypt’s prisons, especially amid the outbreak of the [ More … ]

Egypt’s political prisoners denied healthcare and subject to reprisals: Amnesty

January 28, 2021 MEO Staff

International community must put pressure on Egypt to prevent prison deaths, warns Amnesty International A decade after the uprising that overturned politics in Egypt, political prisoners are being targeted inside the country’s overcrowded prison system. [ More … ]

The Unfinished Business of Arab Spring: WP

January 27, 2021 MEO Staff

The forces that unleashed uprisings across the Middle East remain as potent as ever, a lengthy report about the Arab Spring in The Washington Post stated. Ten years ago, much of the Arab world erupted [ More … ]

Qatar likely to mediate between Iran, US, official says

January 26, 2021 MEO Staff

Qatar has reiterated its readiness to mediate between Iran and the United States days after newly elected President Joe Biden took office “Qatar is ready to mediate between Iran and the United States as the [ More … ]

US Giant ‘Chevron’ to Invest in Pipelines for Sending Israeli Gas to Egypt

January 21, 2021 MEO Staff

Chevron Corp. and other companies helping to develop Israel’s natural gas fields will invest around $235 million in pipelines to export the fuel to Egypt. Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation. One of the [ More … ]

Egypt confiscates assets of 89 Muslim Brotherhood members, including Morsi

January 19, 2021 MEO Staff

An Egyptian court has ruled for the seizure and confiscation of the assets of 89 Muslim Brotherhood members, including the country’s first and only democratically-elected President Mohammed Morsi. According to the state-owned daily Akhbar al-Youm, [ More … ]