The roar of poverty pushes Egyptians to psychological illness and crime
August 20, 2019 Crimes committed by so-called psychological patients in Egypt have increased. Scientific research conducted by the National Centre for Criminal and Social Research in Cairo has revealed that 25 per cent of the Egyptian population has various psychological…
Al-Sisi sacks Mamish and appoints new Suez Canal Authority chairman
August 20, 2019 On Saturday Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decision to dismiss Lieutenant General Mohab Mamish from his post as head of the Suez Canal Authority and appointed Lieutenant General Osama Rabie as his successor. Al-Sisi appointed Mamish as…
Renewed controversy over Egypt expatriates in Kuwait
August 20, 2019 The crisis of Egyptian expatriates in Kuwait has returned to the forefront of the news again after a census indicated a rise in the number of Egyptian workers in the country. According to the newspaper Al Rai,…
Egypt torture conference ‘kafkaesque horror’, says head of revolutionary council
Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council Maha Azzam has written to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria urging her to publicly condemn the regional conference on torture which will be held in Cairo at the beginning…
Breaking up the Rabaa sit-in: Between false history and lost memory
August 16, 2019 “An army officer told me literally: ‘If you think you want to prove yourself a man you’ll end up with a bullet and be thrown in the garbage like the many people today whose lives ended with…
General Abbas Kamel: The strongman in al-Sisi’s regime
August 19, 2019 General Abbas Kamel, 62, the president’s secrets keeper and the closest person to him, is the 26th president of General Intelligence, one of the so-called sovereign agencies alongside Military Intelligence and the National Security Services. The name…
Libya denounces Egypt’s interference in its internal affairs
August 19, 2019 The High Council of State in Libya condemned on Thursday what it called the blatant interference of the Egyptian government in Libyan affairs. The High Council accused Egypt of violating Security Council resolutions by supporting Libyan…
Al-Sisi signs a €350 million loan to develop the subway
August 18, 2019 The official gazette published on Thursday Republican Decree No. 76 of 2019, with the approval of President al-Sisi, a government agreement with the European Investment Bank on a project to develop and renovate the subway under which…
Egypt’s unemployment rate hits 7.5%
August 19, 2019 The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced on Thursday the results of the labour force research for the second quarter of 2019, where the unemployment rate reached 7.5 per cent of the total labour…
Bitter legacy of Rabaa massacre continues to haunt Egyptians
The bloody events of 14 August 2013, when Egyptian security forces killed at least 900 people during the violent dispersal of mass anti-government sit-ins in Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda squares, has cast a shadow over Egyptian society that lingers to…
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