Month: April 2023

Egypt’s economic impasse: Sisi still launches unfeasible projects for propaganda

Last Friday, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi toured the capital, Cairo, which revealed the process of establishing a new project within the projects of his national government, which are considered by the International Monetary Fund and foreign creditors who are calling for…

Assaults on football fans: New Instance of the Egyptian police state

On April 23, activists and several fans of the Egyptian club Al-Ahly published clips of two police officers arresting public members and dragging them among the spectators in their club’s match against Moroccan Raja in the quarter-finals of the African…

Sisi’s Egypt confounded in Sudan after Egyptian diplomate murder

The Wall Street Journal has revealed that Egypt supported the Sudanese army’s commander, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, in his conflict with the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, generally referred to as Hemetti. The American newspaper quoted sources…

HRW: The Egyptian government exposed the digital data of child students

Human Rights Watch has accused the Egyptian government and a private British company of sharing the personal information of tens of thousands of students over the Internet for at least eight months without protection, which violates the privacy of these…

S&P downgrades its outlook on Egypt’s sovereign debt

On Friday, Standard & Poor’s issued a report announcing that it downgraded its outlook on Egypt’s sovereign debt from stable to negative. This reflects a possibility of also downgrading Egypt’s credit rating later, down from the current B, which indicates…

Growing repression in Egypt reflects the exacerbation of political and economic crises

The Egyptian security authorities released Mrs Neama Hisham, the wife of the detained human rights lawyer, Mohamed El-Baqer, after detaining her illegally for about 12 hours on the grounds of her blogging about her husband being tortured and beaten inside…

Blocking news websites in Egypt: The government imposes blackout on failures

Last Sunday evening, the Egyptian authorities blocked the websites of Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for several hours after they published reports and news about Egyptian soldiers being held in Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces….

Egypt’s economic crisis: Sisi between creditors’ pressure and the danger of the Army’s wrath

This April, the Africa Intelligence website, which is close to French intelligence, published a report revealing the Egyptian army’s empire in the tourism sector, where the armed forces, with their various bodies and leaders, own a group of the most…

Son of late President Mohamed Morsi complains of torture in Badr Prison

On Friday, Egyptian human rights groups said they had obtained another letter from Badr Prison inmates stating that five of them had attempted suicide, including the son of the late President Mohamed Morsi, Osama Morsi. According to local human rights…

Egypt sees no hope in continuing negotiations with Ethiopia

In talks he held with the chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, Arega added, “We have a firm position on the necessity of continuing negotiations between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan under the auspices of the African Union.” On…