Is it safe to travel to Egypt?
”Some parts of Egypt have travel advisories in place, while some acts such as drinking in public could land you in hot water. Here’s what you need to know.” From the pyramids of Giza and the temples of Luxor to…
Egypt’s headline inflation slows to 30.6% in April
Egypt’s annual urban consumer inflation in April slowed to 30.6% from 32.7% in March, data from the state statistics agency CAPMAS showed on Wednesday, lower than analysts had expected. Month-on-month, urban inflation slowed to 1.7% from 2.7% in March and…
Inflation, IMF austerity and grandiose military plans edge more Egyptians into poverty
Increasing numbers of Egyptians are desperately hunting for second jobs, cutting back on eating meat and scrambling to find new ways to cope with soaring prices, amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis. Ahmed Fawzi is searching for a second job even…
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….
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