Egypt officially withdraws from UN global grain agreement
Cairo officially withdrew on Tuesday from a decades-old UN grain treaty, over a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threw the supply of staple wheat imports to Egypt into precarity. The war between two of the world’s two largest wheat…
Egypt Using Remote Hearings to Isolate Prisoners
Egypt has begun holding detention renewal sessions for pre-trial detainees remotely via videoconference, with detainees attending the sessions from prisons under police custody. The move further increases the isolation of Egyptian “political” prisoners, making it less likely that abuses of…
Alaa Abd el-Fattah: MPs and peers call for Egypt travel advice to be changed following ‘lack of progress’ over jailed activist
Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a dual UK-Egpyt citizen, has been under lock and key in North Africa for nine of the past 11 years. The legislators want the UK to warn its citizens they are not protected if they travel to…
Egypt: 10 years on, Sisi’s coup continues squeezing country
Ten years ago, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi launched a coup against Egypt’s first democratically elected president in history, removing Mohammed Morsi from power, suspending the constitution, and establishing himself as leader of the country. Sisi said he was responding to the…
Egypt coup: A decade on, liberals must do some serious self-reflection
Drawing lessons from the tumultuous events of the past decade, they should strive to rescue the country from the grip of authoritarianism. On the night of the 3 July 2013 coup that ousted Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected civilian leader,…
Foreign travel advice, Egypt
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) advises against all travel to: the Governorate of North Sinai within 20km of the Egyptian and Libyan border. This excludes the town of El Salloum (where we continue to advise against all but…
Greece boat disaster: Trafficking suspects plead not guilty
Nine Egyptian men accused of causing a disaster last week when a vessel carrying hundreds of people sank off the Greek coast have pleaded not guilty. The nine suspects – all aged between 20 and 40 – are accused of…
Egypt approves budget amid privatisation drive, economic crisis
Egypt is dealing with an economic crisis, with the government seeking investments to meet its foreign debt obligations. Egypt will be allocating 127.7 billion Egyptian pounds ($4.14bn) for its food subsidy programme for the upcoming fiscal year beginning on July…
One of three Britons who died in Egypt boat fire named
One of the three Britons who died after a diving boat burst into flames in Egypt’s Red Sea on Sunday has been named as Christina Quinn, who was the chief executive of a hospice. The 58-year-old was on a medium-sized…
Russian man killed in shark attack off Egypt’s Red Sea resort
Coastline to remain off limits with a ban on swimming, snorkelling and other water sports activities until Sunday. A Russian man has died after being attacked by a shark off the coast of Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Hurghada,…
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