Year: 2020

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…

Al-Sisi’s revenge on Morsi’s family goes beyond the grave

“The death of President Morsi and his son Abdullah was not natural.” Thus, the family of the late President Mohamed Morsi spoke, the first elected civilian president of Egypt, on the anniversary of the fourth massacre about the death of…

Public transport projects in Egypt: Huge spending and continuous losses

“Enormous spending and continuous losses” is the reality of transport projects in Egypt, which the government declares it has spent billions on developing and maintaining despite the fact that they continue to make the biggest economic losses. Transportation projects in…

Egypt expert: Al-Sisi cancelled the 1902 Agreement and forfeited Egypt’s right to the Nile waters

Nader Nour Eddin, Professor of Water Resources at Cairo University’s Faculty of Agriculture, has said that the Agreement of Principles signed by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in 2015 cancelled the 1902 Agreement that safeguarded Egypt’s rights to the Nile waters….

Official instructions to Egypt’s media to limit coverage of COVID-19

Egyptian journalists have informed Egypt Watch that sovereign authorities have issued supreme instructions to all official and private channels to reduce the news covering the crisis of the outbreak of the coronavirus. A journalist said that strict instructions arrived at…

Renaissance Dam negotiations resume today

Sudan reaffirmed the resumption of the negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on Tuesday, on the rules for filling and operating the Renaissance Dam of Ethiopia, after a meeting of the foreign and irrigation ministers of the three countries. The…

The Administrative Control Authority questions 1,730 officials over corruption

An Egyptian security source has said that the Administrative Control Authority (ACA) in Egypt (a civilian intelligence agency) is conducting extensive investigations with 1,730 officials in local agencies. He explained that these investigations are being carried out because they have…