New charges brought against researcher Kholoud Saeed to prevent her release
Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered detained researcher Kholoud Saeed to 15 days in custody pending investigations into case no. 1017 of year 2020. The prosecution’s decision came after the disappearance of Saeed from Al Muntazah Police Station on December 26,…
Egypt announces failure of GERD negotiations without announcing the next steps
The Egyptian foreign ministry said, on Sunday, that the hexagonal meeting between ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia, regarding the negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, failed to achieve any progress because of conflicts over the process of resuming…
IMF: Negative predictions of inflation and dollar flow in Egypt
The International Monetary Fund raised its prediction of the Egyptian economy’s growth rate during the 2020/2021 fiscal year to 2.8 per cent compared to the prediction of two per cent, which the fund issued in June. The fund had approved…
After Qatar, is Egyptian-Turkish reconciliation on the way?
With Cairo signing the Al-Ula agreement to reconcile with Qatar, attention turned to Cairo’s other regional enemy, Turkey, which welcomed the agreement and sent positive signals, raising speculation that Egyptian-Turkish reconciliation might be on the way. The arrival of the…
In the absence of a vision for repayment, Egypt awaits new debts of $30 billion
The International Monetary Fund revealed that Egypt needs about $30.7 billion in foreign financing during the current fiscal year, with an increase of $8 billion from the previous fiscal year. According to the documents of the first review of the…
IMF: Egypt spent 4 times more supporting private sector that public health services
The International Monetary Fund has said that the Egyptian government, after the outbreak of COVID-19, spent EGP 14 billion on health services compared to EGP 37 billion to support families and more than EGP 58 billion to support companies and…
Egyptalum workers protest blocking of dividend
Workers for Egyptalum, numbering 5,800, organised a sit-in protesting the refusal to distribute the labourers’ share of the annual profits. A member of the trade union commission of Egyptalum said that the workers escalated the protest because the Metallurgical Industries…
ANHRI condemns the arrest of photojournalist Hamdy al-Zaeem
The Egyptian security forces arrested the photojournalist Hamdy Mokhtar, who is known as “Hamdy al-Zaeem,” at dawn on Tuesday, from his house. “Until when will the Attorney General remain silent towards the crimes that the security forces commit in Egypt…
Ahmed Tantawy: ‘We will work to build a strong dissenting national party’
Ahmed Tantawy, the former MP and new president of Al-Karama Party, said that he hopes to turn an individual case of a young dissident politician in the current complicated political scene in Egypt into teamwork for building a strong party…
UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor condemns expanding detention of researcher Ibrahim Ezz el-Deen
Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, condemned expanding the detention of the architect Ibrahim Ezz el-Deen, the researcher for the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedom, by inserting him on a new legal case after releasing him…
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