Month: May 2021

Is the Egyptian-Sudanese maneuver a prelude to strike the GERD?

There is no new solution to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam issue, which has been stalled for years. However, the Egyptian-Sudanese military maneuvers have renewed questions about the options of how to deal with the GERD and whether it can…

Biden’s US administration re-evaluates Egypt’s position in its plans

US President Joe Biden made two calls to his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi after he condemned him after his arrival at the White House over human rights in Egypt. The war that broke out between Israel and Gaza and…

Human rights organisations issue joint statement over torture of political detainees in Egypt

Human rights organisations issued a statement highlighting similar cases of torture in Egypt, coinciding with taking the initial step for the trial of four senior officials of the Egyptian National Security Agency in Rome. The trial of Egyptian officers in…

State-sponsored media production company in Egypt embroiled in corruption scandals

Rumours have circulated during the past few hours of upcoming changes within the United Company for Media Services, the Egyptian regime’s media arm, which is owned by the intelligence. The news that was circulated was about investigations taking place inside…

How did Sisi benefit from the Israel and Hamas conflict?

Political analysts have said that the Egyptian General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is the biggest winner in the recent fight between Israel and Hamas. Political analysts came to that conclusion given the success of reaching the ceasefire agreement, in which Egypt…

Egypt retracts foreign minister’s sensational statements on GERD

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned Ethiopia against continuing to fill the Renaissance Dam unilaterally during the next flood season, which is the summer of this year, affirming Cairo’s commitment to securing the interests and rights of the…

Black fungus disease appears in Egypt

The head of the scientific committee to combat the coronavirus in Egypt, Hossam Hosni, admitted that there are cases of black fungus disease that may be related to corona infection due to the excessive intake of some treatments and antibiotics….

Egypt’s secret police arrest a lawyer and torture him for defending political detainees

The Egyptian Network for Human Rights documented the arrest by security forces of the lawyer, Fathi El-Taher Ghayati, a member of the Defence for Detainees in Sharqia, and his forcible disappearance and torture at the National Security headquarters in Zagazig….

Ever Given’s lawyer: Suez Canal blockage was fault of Canal Authority

A lawyer representing the Japanese company that owns the giant container ship that impeded navigation in the Suez Canal said in March that the company had said that what happened is due to a mistake committed by the Canal Authority….

Gaza conflict revived stagnant Egyptian American relations

After four months of ignoring him, US President Joe Biden called General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. This call came after Egyptian efforts have succeeded in recent days in reaching a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the armed Palestinian factions in Gaza,…