Badr Abdelatty: Why is Egypt’s new foreign minister controversial?
Government insiders and activists say Cairo’s appointment is detrimental to human rights and signals the ‘militarisation’ of the diplomatic service Badr Abdelatty, a career diplomat, has replaced Sameh Shoukry as Egypt‘s minister of foreign affairs after Shoukry held the post for 12…
Mohamed Abdel Latif: Egypt’s new education minister has a ‘fake’ PhD
Mohamed Abdel Latif says he holds a doctorate from Cardiff City University in the US, but online fact-checkers say it’s a scam Egypt’s new education minister, Mohamed Abdel Latif, has sparked controversy after online fact checkers revealed that his PhD, advertised…
Killed, disappeared, displaced: Egypt’s Sinai devastated by Sisi’s 10 years as president
President Sisi has declared his war on terror in northeast Egypt over. Survivors say a decade of conflict has shattered lives and homeland In January last year, the 12th anniversary of Egypt‘s 25 January revolution, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi declared the war-torn Sinai Peninsula…
Saudi Arabia detains Egyptian cancer patient after criticising Hajj deaths
Saudi authorities have detained an Egyptian man after he posted an online video during Hajj criticising the alleged neglect that led to the deaths of hundreds of Egyptian pilgrims. According to a video posted online by his father, Islam Osama Sobhi, 27, is currently held…
Egypt: How Sinai became a graveyard for education in ten years under Sisi
Schools destroyed, students and teachers killed, and children’s right to education systematically violated, report finds Egyptian army and security forces have destroyed dozens of schools and killed 186 students and 21 teachers during the decade-long conflict with Islamic State militants in Sinai, a…
IMF could augment Egypt’s loan programme over effects of Gaza war
Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva says the Israel-Gaza war has had an economic impact on neighbouring countries. The International Monetary Fund is seeking to increase Egypt’s loan programme due to the effects of the war in neighbouring Gaza, according to a…
Israel-Palestine war: Egyptian activists call for ‘convoy of conscience’ to break Gaza siege
Union organisers say Sisi’s government ‘has not done its best’ to challenge the Israeli blockade on Gaza and assert its sovereignty over the Rafah border crossing Egypt’s Journalist Syndicate has called for a humanitarian convoy into Gaza as very little aid has been allowed…
Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt opens for limited evacuation
The Rafah border border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has opened for the first time in more than three weeks of brutal conflict to allow the evacuation of dozens of Palestinian injured requiring hospital treatment and hundreds of foreign passport-holders. Live pictures…
Blasts hit two Egyptian Red Sea towns near Israel border, six injured
Projectiles hit two Egyptian Red Sea towns on Friday, sources and officials say, wounding at least six people in Taba near the border with Israel. Egyptian army spokesperson Colonel Gharib Abdel-Hafez said an “unidentified drone” crashed into a building adjacent…
Israel-Palestine war: Egypt’s Sisi warns against actions resulting from ‘anger’
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi on Wednesday warned his armed forces and the general public to rein in their anger and enthusiasm, in an apparent reference to the outrage felt in Egypt at the Israeli military onslaught on neighbouring Gaza. Speaking during an inspection of…
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