With 14% voting: The government-sponsored bloc dominates the Senate
The head of the National Elections Authority in Egypt announced that an entire electoral list of 100 members who support General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi won a third of the seats in the new Senate. Counselor Lasheen Ibrahim added, in a…
The Rab’a sit-in slaughter: 7 years without investigation or trial
Seven years have passed since the biggest massacre Egyptians have witnessed in their modern and contemporary history, which began with a political dispute and a power struggle and ended with a coup and carnage in the fields of Rab’a and…
Unemployment rates rises in Egypt
The rate of unemployment in Egypt has made successive jumps since the beginning of this year, as official statistics announced a recent high unemployment rate due to the corona pandemic and the resulting loss of many jobs. According to the…
Egypt’s authorities are erasing the symbols of the revolution
The Egyptian government has covered the main squares in the country, which witnessed significant protests during the period between 2011-2013, with new features, apparently to tighten control over areas that have acquired significant symbolic connotations and to prevent future demonstrations….
A new law on violating public enterprises puts everyone under the authority’s thumb
The cabinet headed by Dr. Moustafa Madbouly has approved a draft for the amendment of some of the criminal code’s articles concerning violating public enterprises and employees including, first and foremost, police officers and judges with punishments up to imprisonment…
Coronavirus raises the unemployment rate in Egypt to 9.6%
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics in Egypt said that the unemployment rate increased to 9.6% in the second quarter of 2020, compared to 7.5% a year ago. He explained that the rise came due to the repercussions…
Sultan’s defense puts Al-Beblawi’s immunity at risk
The defense team of the Egyptian activist Mohamed Sultan kept the torture case filed in the United States against the former Egyptian Prime Minister and member of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund residing in Washington, “Hazem Al-Beblawy,”…
Al-Sisi raises the consular fees for Egyptians abroad
Egyptian General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi issued a decision to increase the consular fees, which are collected from Egyptians abroad, in exchange for the services provided to them. And the Official Gazette in Egypt published, on Tuesday, Al-Sisi’s decision to amend…
Al-Jabrouni: A new political detainee died in the prisons of al-Sisi
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information in Egypt revealed the detainee’s death, Mustafa Al-Jabrouni, a week ago in Tora prison, without notifying his family to receive the body. Al-Jabrouni is the third death in Egyptian prisons during August and…
Egypt’s government reduces size of subsidised loaf of bread by 18%
The Egyptian government has reduced the weight of a subsidised loaf of bread from 110 grams to 90 grams, which is a more than 18 per cent reduction. This decision comes in light of the government’s plan to gradually liberalise…
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