Year: 2021

Egypt announces the resumption of diplomatic relationships with Qatar

The Egyptian foreign ministry announced, on Wednesday, the agreement with Doha to resume diplomatic relations between the two countries. “In connection with the executive steps regarding the mutual obligations mentioned in the al-Ula statement, the Arab Republic of Egypt exchanged,…

Could the workers succeed in stopping the closure and liquidation of their factories?

Although the Egyptian authorities’ decision to sell and liquidate factories was not a surprise to workers, the real surprise was the workers’ continuous protests, which surprised the regime, which has suppressed every voice opposing it in recent years. Over many…

Report: Workers continue to protest against al-Sisi’s regime

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information said that democracy in Egypt continues to deteriorate in 2020 with the recurrent governmental violations of law. This was in the seventh report on democracy in Egypt issued by the Lawyers for Democracy…

MP Abdel-Alim Dawood accuses Nation’s Future Party of corrupting political life

On Tuesday the Egyptian parliament witnessed a rift between the parliamentary bloc of the Nation’s Future Party, which holds 316 seats out 596, and Mohamed Abdel-Alim Dawood, MP for al-Wafd Party. Ruction started during Dawood’s speech, in which he said,…

Safwat al-Sharif: The death of a tyrant

“There is nothing left for the late but his good biography.” Thus, the famous proverb says, which was entirely contradicted by Safwat al-Sharif, the man of Hosni Mubarak’s regime, whose death revealed the details of a long biography marked by…

Student union elections: Security bodies dominate the universities

University student union elections were concluded with a sweeping winning of the state-sponsored election list Students for Egypt, which won 416 seats out of 432, with a total percentage of 96.2 per cent. This sweeping victory was achieved in most…

The cost of the express train in Egypt rose by $19 billion in four months

In just four months, the cost of building an express electric train in Egypt increased from $3 billion to $9 billion and then finally to $23 billion. Thus, the sequence of events for the train on which the signing of…

Public theft: The Egyptian regime plunders the property of Muslim Brotherhood members

In a new step of al-Sisi’s regime to conclude the file of Muslim Brothers’ money as soon as possible, the Interim Relief Court in Egypt ruled, on Sunday, the confiscation of properties of 89 members and leaders of the Muslim…

On the 10th anniversary of January Revolution Egypt is suffering a new journey in repression

On the 10th anniversary of the popular revolution, Egyptians are living at an unprecedented level of repression since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power through a military coup against the late Mohamed Morsi. After 10 years of the 25 January…

Maait: State revenues declined by EGP 200 billion due to COVID-19 crisis

The Egyptian Treasury Minister Mohamed Maait said that the COVID-19 pandemic affected the Egyptian economy deeply, indicating that the target growth rate before the pandemic was six per cent. He added in a call with DMC TV that the government…