Month: November 2020

A trial in Rome for 5 Egyptian policemen who participated in Regeni’s murder

The momentum of the kidnapping and murder of the Italian researcher Giulio Regeni at the hands of Egyptian officers has returned, after a long silence, to reveal the gap between Cairo’s investigations and the one in Rome. According to Western…

Al-Sisi’s aggression amounts to Trump’s in the last days

General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime arrested, this week, three senior members of one of the country’s most prominent and few remaining human rights groups, days before Donald Trump’s expected leave from power. Arresting the members of the Egyptian Initiative for…

Egypt’s position complicated with Sudan’s withdrawal from Renaissance Dam negotiations

The Sudanese government’s announcement that it will withdraw from the Renaissance Dam negotiations and not participate in the six-party meeting under the auspices of the African Union raised astonishment and anger among experts and specialists in Egypt. For his part,…

The army angers the people of Alexandria because of the corniche

Residents of the city of Alexandria in northern Egypt are suffering from a major crisis after the army placed its hand on distinct areas on the corniche there and decided to convert them into investment places under the name of…

All chest unit doctors at Ain Shams University infected with coronavirus

The former Egyptian Minister of Health, the Adviser to the President of the Republic for Health and Prevention Affairs, Muhammad Awad Taj al-Din, revealed that all doctors of the chest unit at Ain Shams University have been infected with coronavirus….

Egypt puts Aboul Fotouh and other political detainees on terror list

On Monday, the Cairo Criminal Court listed the former presidential candidate, the head of the Strong Egypt Party, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, the Egyptian activist Alaa Abdelfattah, the human rights defender and lawyer Mohamed al-Baqer, and 25 other opposition members…

13 Egyptian governorates witness run-offs in the disreputable parliamentary elections

Thirteen Egyptian governorates are witnessing voting in the run-off of the first stage of the country’s parliamentary elections at home. The National Election Authority (NEA), the state’s authority in charge of supervising elections, said the voting process went smoothly. “Judges…

Egypt’s doctors: Hundreds of martyrs and dozens of detainees

November has witnessed an increase in the number of the doctors who died from infection with the new coronavirus (COVID-19) to more than 200 martyrs amid appalling economic conditions and government negligence of preventive measures. This, however, is not the…

Al-Sisi’s dog houses are sparking widespread anger: What’s the story?

A storm of anger swept through social media in Egypt after leaked videos were circulated from inside one of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s palaces that are being constructed showing the construction of large dog houses. The leaked clips came from…

Four years after the currency floating: The poor still pay the price

The decision to float the Egyptian pound four years ago consumed more than half of the Egyptians’ savings on the one hand and led to a massive and unprecedented wave in price increases, making the second half of their wealth…