Year: 2020

Mahmoud Hegazy returns to supervise Libya policy

In the context of the developments currently taking place in Libya and the entry of Turkish military forces into Tripoli, informed sources have said that the former chief of staff of the armed forces, General Mahmoud Hegazy, had returned to…

Egypt supports a ceasefire in Libya

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has announced that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin to a ceasefire in Libya starting from Sunday, January 12. They have invited all conflicting parties to support a peaceful…

Price of electricity rises for seventh time

The Ministry of Electricity has confirmed its commitment to implement the annual increase in electricity bills next July, as part of the final stage of the IMF programme to permanently liberalise electricity prices by the fiscal year 2020-2021. The Ministry…

New detainee dies of cold in Egypt

Political detainee Alaa Saad has died in Burj al-Arab prison in Alexandria due to the inhuman conditions of detention and the deliberate medical negligence of the prison administration, according to the Al-Shehab Centre for Human Rights. Alaa suffered three days…

Foreigners in Egypt are the regime’s hostages

Recently, Russia declared its failure to resolve the crisis of five Russian citizens arrested and detained in Egypt for over a year. They have been subjected to a secret trial on suspicion of joining ISIS. Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign…

Detention renewed for 6 youths in "media hub" case

The Egyptian Supreme State Security Prosecution has renewed the detention of six young detainees for a period of 15 days in the 2018 case known to the media as the “media hub.” The list of the detained includes Yasser Hassan,…

Egypt court prevents extradition of former Gaddafi officials

The Supreme Administrative Court has upheld a ruling to cancel the Egyptian government’s decision to extradite six former Libyan officials from the regime of former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi in a final ruling. In the controversial ruling the court considered…

Egypt’s National Council for Women demands banning controversial song "Salmonella"

The National Council for Women filed a complaint to Google to stop broadcasting the song currently circulating on social media sites entitled “Salmonella” by singer Tameem Youness. The council pointed out that it carries a message that insults women and…

Crisis hit the sugar industry in Egypt

With the sugar cane harvest approaching, the annual crisis between farmers and the Egyptian government to determine the price of the crop has been renewed. Officials set a price for the supply of the crop that is not commensurate with…

The church and Turkey: Al-Sisi's Christmas messages

As he has for the past several years, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appeared at the Christmas Mass for Orthodox Christians in Egypt and used this occasion to deliver a speech through which he sent a number of messages. Among those…