As the country marks the anniversary of the Tahrir Square protests, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is jailing dissidents, expanding censorship and perhaps looking to remain in power indefinitely. Eight years ago this week, protests erupted in [ More … ]
A trading unit of top Russian oil producer Rosneft has signed a deal to supply 10 liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes to the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company this year. Rosneft said that the first delivery by [ More … ]
Egypt has signed a $1 billion contract with three international companies to import 45 shipments of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to be delivered by the start of March, Al-Ahram Daily reported on Sunday, citing the [ More … ]
Egypt’s former Vice-President for Foreign Affairs Mohamed ElBaradei condemned the release of wiretapped private phone conversations on an Egyptian pro-regime TV channel and stressed that they were “distorted” ElBaradei said on his Twitter account that Wiretapping [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Carnegie said in a paper titled: “Egypt’s Regime Faces an Authoritarian Catch 22”. The paper stated that Egypt’s economic crisis which is the harshest in [ More … ]
Three weeks after the military coup against the first democratically President Mohamed Morsi, Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi asked the Egyptians in 2013 to give the army the mandate to fight terrorism. Al-Sisi addressed the Egyptian public [ More … ]
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