El-Sisi approves EUR 150 million euro loan from France

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has approved a 150 million euro loan from the French Development Agency to support the social protection sector. The Egyptian government pledged...

Egypt joins the New Development Bank of BRICS as an alternative source of debts

The Ministry of Finance in Egypt issued a statement announcing Egypt's joining the New Development Bank (NDB), stressing that this will help Egypt meet its financing needs, and that...

Egypt’s PM ratifies sentences against El-Elaimi and other political activists

The Egyptian Prime Minister, Mostafa Madbouly, ratified the ruling issued by the Emergency State Security Misdemeanor Court, on November 17, against a number of political activists.

The Egyptian government raises the prices of basic food commodities

The Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade raised the prices of six commodities on ration cards: sugar, pasta, lentils, cheese, margarine and washing powder. Also, the ministry removed four...

Freedom of press: Egyptian authorities investigate a notable opponent journalist on criticizing the parliamentary...

Reporters Without Borders issued a statement expressing its full support for the journalist and editor-in-chief of the Darb news website, Khaled Al-Balshi, after he was summoned for investigation before the...

ANHRI: Egypt witnessed over 200 protest activities in 2021

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information issued a report on labour and social protests in Egypt during the second half of December 2021. It announced that...

Detained ex-parliamentarian Hesham Hanafi passes away in Scorpion Prison

The Egyptian Network for Human Rights along with Shehab Center and We Record for Human Rights declared the death of ex-parliamentarian, Hesham al-Qadi Hanafi, 62 years, in...

Mohamed Afifi: Political detainee died inside the National Security without updating his family over...

The Egyptian Network for Human Rights said the political detainee, Mohamed Gomaa Yousuf Afifi, died in the National Security Premises in Eastern Cairo six years ago, but the National...

The Egyptian government decides to increase the price of sugar

Egypt’s minister of supplies and domestic trade, Ali Moselhi, decided to raise the price of sugar starting from January 2022 to 10.5 pounds per Kg instead of 8.5 pounds....

Washington Post denounces the deteriorating of human rights in Egypt after al-Sisi’s alleged strategy

Washington Post addressed in its editorial the measures made by Egypt’s ruling regime, which the US respectful newspaper described as “dictatorial”, after declaring the so-called “National Strategy of Human Rights”...