Love is banned: No food subsidies for the newly married couples
Surprisingly, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced the suspension of granting catering support cards to newly married couples, considering that the subsidy is the reason for the state’s decades-long delay in development. Al-Sisi’s statements, which came on the sidelines of the inauguration…
The middle class under attack: Unending new taxes over the middle income in Egypt
The Egyptian government is seeking to pass legal amendments aimed at imposing new taxes that essentially burden the middle class, at a time when the general population is suffering from the high prices of goods and services and high inflation,…
Refugees in Egypt: Sisi’s political trump card
The Egyptian officials have highlighted growing refugee numbers in Egypt. In 2016, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi stated at the G20 summit that Egypt hosts over five million refugees and migrants. Then in 2020, Al-Sisi put the number of Syrian refugees and…
Mohamed Hassan: A second detainee dies in Wadi El-Natron Prison within a month
Human rights organizations revealed the death of a detainee inside his prison cell in Wadi El-Natrun 430 Prison as a result of medical negligence. The detainee had suffered for a long time and underwent urgent surgery as a result of…
A former Egyptian presidential candidate fears for his life after cyberattacks
The leader of Ghad El-Thawra party and former Egyptian presidential candidate Ayman Nour fears for his life after his phone was hacked by two different groups. The exiled activist was a long-standing opponent of the late dictator Hosni Mubarak and…
The disappearance of the Emirati ambassador in Cairo, amid reports of his involvement in the case of smuggling antiquities
About 4 months after his appointment as ambassador of the United Arab Emirates in Cairo, Ambassador Hamad Al Shamsi suddenly disappeared from view, coinciding with the Egyptian authorities’ announcement of the arrest of a former parliamentarian and a prominent businessman,…
Washington “disappointed” by the sentences against human rights defenders in Egypt
The US State Department said that it is disappointed by the sentences handed down to 3 prominent activists in Egypt. Reuters quoted US State Department spokesperson Ned Price as saying that US officials raised human rights issues with their Egyptian…
The New legislation restricts freedom of the press in Egypt
The Board of Directors of the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) issued a statement confirming its approval of a legislative proposal to add a new article in Chapter Six of the Capital Market Law that includes a ban and criminalization of…
Universal’s workers start a new strike after the administration broke the previous deal
Workers of Universal Group for home appliances started a new strike protesting the administration non-adherence to the agreement signed by representatives of the administration last October with representatives from the workers and the union of workers in metal and engineering…
An Egyptian parliamentarian calls for transparency over corruption cases in the Ministry of Health
A member of the Egyptian House of Representatives from the Social Democratic Party, Freddy El-Bayadi, asked the Prime Minister, Mostafa Madbouly, about the continued absence of Minister of Health Hala Zayed from the scene, and the vacancy of her important…
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