Month: January 2023

CBE offers three-year treasury bills with 17.25% interest

On Wednesday, the Central Bank of Egypt said it had offered three-year treasury bonds with a variable interest rate linked to the bank’s deposit, lending, and credit rates currently stand at 16.25%, 17.25%, and 16.75%, respectively. According to experts, the…

Blinken says the meeting with Sisi touched on human rights

On Monday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi touched on human rights issues, the strategic partnership between the US and Egypt, and the latter’s important role in regional stability. Blinken…

Despite financial crisis: Egyptian government intensifies work on Cairo Monorail

The Egyptian Minister of Transport, Kamel Al-Wazir, has said that the government is intensifying its work on the Cairo Monorail, which aims to link Greater Cairo with new cities. Although the country is facing a severe economic crisis, the government…

12 years after the January Revolution: Military dictatorship chases the legacy of the democratic revolution

On this day 12 years ago, ordinary youth demonstrations began, chanting “Freedom”, which soon developed into a more complex and comprehensive chant expressing the masses of the Egyptian people, “Bread, freedom, social justice”, and in more expanded versions, it was…

Hashem Farghali: Labor leader’s arrest on the Revolution anniversary tells where we arrived

In June 2005, the first screening of the movie Sayed Al-Atefy (The Emotional Sayed) by the famous screenwriter Bilal Fadl took place. In the scene of the development of events in the film, a young man who suffers from the…

Egyptian Working Group on Human Rights: The situation in Egypt witnessed no tangible improvements

The Egyptian Working Group for Human Rights has said that the human rights situation in Egypt has not witnessed tangible improvements. On the contrary, it added, human rights violations are systematically escalating. The group was formed in 2018 by local…

In Egypt: Six persons sentenced to death for unknown terrorist acts!

An Egyptian court has issued death sentences against six people and punished another with life imprisonment. The prosecution accused them of financing and joining a terrorist group, disturbing public order and endangering society’s safety, interests and security, obstructing the provisions…

The Egyptian authorities block leading human rights group’s website

On Saturday, the director of the Egypt Program at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Mohamed Zaree, said that the human rights group’s website was blocked in Egypt after publishing a statement submitted by human rights organizations to the…

The causes of the Egyptian January 25th revolution are still present and persistent

The main slogan raised by the demonstrators during the revolution of January 25th, 2011, was “Bread… Freedom… Social Justice”, but despite 12 years after the revolution, none of these demands has been achieved, and it does not seem that there…

Ibrahim Arjani: Sinai’s warlord seeks sports washing by sponsoring Al-Ahly FC

On the evening of 19 January, there was a celebration held at the headquarters of Al-Ahly Club attended by the “notorious” businessman, Ibrahim Al-Arjani, to sign with the largest club in Egypt and Africa (and in the presence of its…