Egypt: Forces arrest journalist after report on officials aboard seized plane in Zambia
Forces arrested Karim Assaad after reporting on identity of several officials allegedly aboard plane seized in Zambia carrying millions of dollars in cash, gold and weapons Egyptian security forces detained a local journalist who had covered a breaking news story allegedly involving five Egyptian…
Egypt’s Sisi pardons jailed activist Ahmed Douma
Egypt‘s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has pardoned a number of prisoners, including prominent activist Ahmed Douma after over 10 years in arbitrary detention. Lawmaker Tarek al-Khawli, a member of the presidential pardons committee, on Saturday said in a post on X, formerly known as…
Egypt: Army officer was on plane seized in Zambia, say reports
An Egyptian army major was reportedly aboard a private plane carrying millions of dollars in cash, gold, and weapons, that was seized by Zambian authorities earlier this week, open-source investigations have alleged. The names of five Egyptians aboard the chartered plane were revealed in a…
Sinai shooting: Concerns raised over fate of ‘forcibly disappeared’ prisoners
Campaigners have raised concerns about the fate of Egyptian detainees held at a Sinai facility where a shooting last month killed at least three security officers. On 30 July, officers at the National Security headquarters in el-Arish, in the restive North Sinai province,…
Zambia seizes plane with $5.7M cash, weapons
Drug Enforcement Commission says 10 people detained, money placed in Bank of Zambia Authorities in Zambia on Tuesday announced the seizure of a private plane carrying $5.7 million in cash, 602 pieces of suspected gold bars, and five pistols with…
Rabaa massacre: A decade on, Egypt remains clouded by denial
A decade ago, in the early morning hours of 14 August 2013, a haunting symphony of gunshots pierced the air, forever etching a somber tale into my consciousness. What might have sounded like the customary exuberance of wedding festivities in Egypt soon unraveled…
Egypt: Ten years after Rabaa, families still in the dark over fate of missing children
It’s 7:30pm and in Egypt‘s hopelessly gridlocked capital, the cacophonous symphony of honks and beeps ring out from the overcrowded streets. The sounds drown out the roars of children playing football and the sunset call for prayer. But inside Badria el-Sayed’s…
Rabaa massacre: The founding social contract of Sisi’s new republic
Ten years since the biggest mass killing in the country’s modern history, the state has decimated the public’s right to dissent. Ten years ago in broad daylight, Egypt’s police and military carried out the biggest massacre in the country’s modern history. …
Egypt rebuffs US requests to arm Ukraine
Egypt has snubbed multiple requests from the US to send weapons to Ukraine, underlining how far Cairo is willing to go to maintain a neutral position on the war in Europe, despite receiving billions of dollars in US military aid. US…
How Sisi Ruined Egypt
The coup leader-turned-president promised Egyptians prosperity, but the country is flat broke. Throughout much of the summer of 2013, Egypt was in the grips of what could be described as “Sisi-mania.” Songs, sandwiches, music videos, poems, and even pajamas paid tribute to…
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