The National Dialogue Administration revealed the 19-member board of trustees for the national dialogue, which was supposed to begin during the first week of July but now looks set to be delayed. On 8 June, [ More … ]
A well-known YouTuber and political activist said he watched the death moment of the killing of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni in Egypt. Meanwhile, Patrick Zaki, the trial of a human rights advocate that had [ More … ]
Four leaders of the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) are still behind bars as their latest hearing was again postponed, while courts extended the pretrial detentions of numerous political prisoners. After spending more [ More … ]
The Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) has decided to hold local elections in the occupied West Bank on May 13 as scheduled, while excluding Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip from taking part. During the PA’s [ More … ]
The official visit of Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel to Algeria has been postponed because President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is “temporarily unavailable” due to “acute bronchitis,” said Monday the Presidency of the Republic in a communique. [ More … ]
Egypt’s government defended its decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia at an appeals court hearing after Egypt’s Administrative court nullified the agreement. The chief government lawyer, Rafiq Omar said, “Successive [ More … ]
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