Human Rights Report: Egypt Subjects Political Activists to Systematic Re-imprisonment
The Transparency Centre for Research, Documentation and Data Management, in partnership with the Arab Foundation for Civil and Political Rights, documented that 1,764 pre-trial detainees have been subjected, after the end of their pre-trial detention periods or the issuance of…
Egypt: The peaking annual inflation alarms an unbearable economic crisis
The annual inflation rate in Egypt recorded 14.9% last April, hitting its highest rate in 3 years, driven by the government’s decision to devalue the pound against the dollar by 18% in late March and the continuing negative repercussions of…
The Egyptian government issued sovereign bonds in the Chinese Yuan
Finance Minister Mohamed Maait has said that Egypt aims to cooperate with China to issue Egyptian bonds denominated in yuan. Maait added, during his meeting with the Chinese ambassador in Cairo, Liao Liqiang, that the Egyptian government aims to cooperate…
The European Parliament criticizes the deteriorating human rights situation in Egypt
Members of the European Parliament’s Human Rights Subcommittee have sharply criticized their counterparts in the Egyptian Parliament’s Human Rights Committee during a joint session this week. Criticisms included the absence of fair trial guarantees, cases of torture, poor conditions inside…
Egypt gets EUR 138 million in grants from the EU
The Ministry of International Cooperation and the European Union have celebrated signing many development financing grants worth 138 million euros. According to the Minister of International Cooperation, Rania Al-Mashat, the grants come intending to support the state’s development efforts in…
The Egyptian government plans to obtain foreign loans worth 54 billion pounds
The economic and social development of the Egyptian government plan for the year 2022/2023 revealed that foreign investment in public debt was 28.8 billion dollars last December when it was 34 $1 billion in September 2021. The economic and social…
The Egyptian parliament discusses new sovereign loan agreements amid fears of spiking foreign debt
Egypt’s House of Representatives referred three international loan agreements to the relevant specific committees for discussion. The first is the agreement signed by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi regarding a loan from the Korean Economic Development Cooperation Fund, amounting to USD…
Egypt: Inflation jumps to its highest rate in 3 years
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics has announced that annual inflation was recorded in April at 14.9%, the highest rate in three years. Macroeconomic analyst at CI Capital Sarah Saadeh suggested that the main direct reason for the…
Petitions to release the Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah after his health deterioration
Several Egyptian mothers petitioned the National Council for Human Rights to make all possible efforts to transfer political activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah from his prison cell to a prison hospital in light of the harmful health conditions after his hunger strike…
Sisi’s new amnesty committee reproduce the failures of their predecessors
In late April, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced the reactivation of the work of the “presidential pardon committee”, which is responsible for facilitating the release of political detainees, as part of what was described as a “political reform process” to…
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