Egypt attempts to convince Sudan to side with it against Ethiopia
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met, on Thursday, Lieutenant General Shamseddine Kabbashi, member of the Sovereign Council of Sudan, during a Sudanese delegation to Egypt. The visit came parallel to the border escalation between Sudan and Ethiopia after Sudanese troops advanced in…
Despite Arab reconciliation Ola al-Qaradawi and her husband are still in prison
In 2017, the Egyptian authorities arrested Ola al-Qaradawi and her husband Hossam Khalaf, the leader in Al-Wasat (Centre) Party, accusing them of building financial networks to fund the Muslim Brothers. Despite the fact that Ola was granted parole in case…
Egypt parliament rejects adding doctors to the martyrs’ fund
The Egyptian parliament approved initially a bill to increase the resources of the fund of victims of policemen and militaries through adding a toll on any document issued by a governmental institution and on tickets of sports matches, festivals and…
Workers of the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company protest liquefaction
Thousands of workers of the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company are protesting the decision of liquefaction issued by the general assembly of the company on 11 January. The company is one of the business sector companies which are owned by…
The NFP maintains its control over parliament
The regime-backed Nation’s Future Party (NFP) dominated the majority of the House of Representatives committees during the internal elections, which reflects the sweeping victory of its candidates in the recent parliamentary elections. The NFP grabbed the presidency of 18 committees…
Egypt: An expected rise in prices, increase in inflation and unemployment
Egyptians are awaiting a new wave of price hikes, with the decision to ban importing any foodstuffs without the approval of the Food Safety Authority set to take effect within days. According to officials in the Cairo Chamber of Commerce,…
Haartez: The Emirati invasion of Egypt targets culture not only economy
Zvi Bar’el, an Israeli military and political analyst, has said that Egyptian parents have complained recently that their children’s school courses on religion and history were provided and approved by the United Arab Emirates rather than Egypt. Bar’el added in…
Government debt of EGP 2 billion caused the oxygen crisis
A source in the Federation of Egyptian Industries said that the recent crisis in medical oxygen supply has resulted from the high demand on the one hand, and the governmental delay in paying EGP 2 billion dues to suppliers on…
WHO calls on Egypt to revise COVID-19 data
The World Health Organisation has called on Egypt to revise officially announced data of numbers of infections and deaths due to COVID-19 in Egypt. “The numbers of COVID-19 patients and deaths issued by the Egyptian ministry of health needs to…
GERD negotiations: The failure reflects the impotence of al-Sisi’s Egypt
The Egyptian foreign ministry announced the failure of the ministerial meeting between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia regarding the resumption of negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, after Sudan assigned the task of suggesting resolutions of points of conflict to…
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