Egypt’s foreign debt soars up to USD 134.8 billion
Egypt’s foreign debt doubled over the first quarter of the current year with a USD 5.64 billion increase, estimated at 4.3% in comparison to the figure at the end of 2020. The Central Bank of Egypt told that the foreign…
Ethiopia signs a military deal with Russia and Egypt seeks help in Brussels
Ethiopian director of meteorology declared, on Monday, that the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam could be finished ahead of the schedule due to the abundant rains. On the Other hand, Ethiopia signed with Russia a military deal…
Egypt: UN Security Council ignored the Egyptian demand of condemning the second filling of the Renaissance Dam
Egypt’s FM Sameh Shoukry declared that UN Security Council avoided condemning the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam due to the complicated political considerations of the council’s members. Shoukry, in his first statements after the UN Security Council’s…
The Egyptian authorities continues destruction of urban areas for construction of new highways
Dredgers started removal of the trees in a couple of streets in Maadi, South Cairo, to start construction of Algeria axis road that is to connect Autostrad road with Helwan and Tebbein, South Cairo, passing through Algeria square in Maadi….
The Egyptian authorities uses collective punishment against opponents’ families: The case of Essam Mekheimar
The Egyptian Network for Human Rights shed light on the collective punishment of the Egyptian opponents in a new report. The report recorded with names and dates how the political security used violence and force, in violation of constitution, law…
EIPR on the governmental budget: Priority goes to debts’ dues, the new capital and the high-profile officials
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights issued a report on the Egyptian governmental budget for 2021/2022, which Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified last week and came into effect from the first of July. The report showed the rise of governmental spending,…
Why the International Arms Trade Must be Controlled
War is big business. The international arms trade is worth hundreds of billions, and arms deals brokered by the rich and the powerful continue to extend human misery around the world. The UK is the world’s second-largest arms exporter in…
GERD crisis: Ethiopia wants upstream countries to form front against Egypt and Sudan
Addis Ababa criticised, on Wednesday, the Egyptian-Sudanese demand to the UN Security Council to discuss the crisis of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Ethiopia considered the step an unnecessary internationalisation and securitisation of the problem. The statement issued by the…
Egypt executes university student sentenced by emergency court
The Egyptian prisons authority executed, on Sunday, Moataz Moustafa Hassan, a 25-year-old university student, in Cairo Appeals Prison. The execution came according to a death sentenced decided by the Supreme State Security Criminal Court, in March 2018, for three defendants…
New York Times: Egyptian officials routinely abuse women without accountability
“Stripped, groped and violated: Egyptian women describe sexual abuse by officials as routine” is the title of a report published by the New York Times, which shed light on the sexual violations committed against Egyptian women who crossed paths with…
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