ISIS attacks Egyptian military checkpoint killing two rankers
Two Egyptian rankers were killed and another injured in an attack by Wilayet Sinai, the ISIS local branch, in Rafah, North Sinai. Military sources said that the rankers were shot dead in an attack on a checkpoint affiliated to the…
Egyptian navy shoots Palestinian fisherman near Gaza shores
The Egyptian navy shot, on Wednesday, a Palestinian fisherman near Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian sources, an Egyptian military gunboat opened fire on several Palestinian fishing boats sailing in the common zone between Gaza and…
Egyptian authorities eliminate Al-Azhar’s independence
Days after issuing a presidential decree declaring Dar Al-Ifta a “special body,” which made it exempt from legal texts that determined the mechanism used to select its senior officials and their retirement age, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a decision…
Egypt continues to depend on treasury bills to finance governmental spending
The Central Bank of Egypt declared, on Monday, the sale of $622 million worth of treasury bills, with an average interest rate of 1.396 per cent. The sale came in line with the increase of financial needs of the governmental…
ANHRI: Protests rise in Egypt in August
The Arab Network for Human Rights Information announced, on Monday, that it had recorded seven protests during the first half of August, including five social protests and two labour demonstrations. Protests varied between mass complaints, strikes and demonstrations. The most…
Hunger strike in Scorpion Prison continues protesting inhumane detention conditions
The Egyptian Network for Human Rights has said that detainees in Scorpion 1 Prison continued their hunger strike, which began on 6 August, protesting the ever-deteriorating inhumane detention conditions. The prison administration has denied some of the detainees visits for…
ISIS blows up electricity network in North Sinai cutting power supply to main cities
Tribal sources have said that Wilayet Sinai, the local ISIS branch, has blown up several electricity towers in Bir Al-Abd, Sheikh Zuweid, Arish, and Rafah. The explosions targeted the electricity network in North Sinai leaving its cities in darkness due…
WTTC: Egypt loses EGP 1 billion monthly due to lack of UK tourists
The World Travel and Tourism Council has said that Egypt loses about EGP 31 million daily and EGP 1 billion monthly, because of its insertion on the UK red list, which stops British tourism to Egypt. WTTC warned of the…
The Egyptian regime imposes a blackout on reporting violations by preventing foreign journalism
Italian journalist Gaston Zama revealed that the Egyptian authorities refused to give him permission to visit Egypt to prepare a photography report about the Egyptian-Italian researcher, Patrick George Zaki. Zaki is a researcher working for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal…
Tunisia’s democracy crisis: The Egyptian model chasing the Arab Spring
It was not surprising that a coup took place in Tunisia with the contribution of the Egyptian regime which fueled and supported it with all its might. This is the same regime that allied itself with Omar Al-Bashir, the former…
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