Exclusive: Corruption scandals shake National Security Agency in Egypt

September 27, 2019  Amidst the storm of corruption scandals that have hit a number of Egypt's main agencies, Egypt Watch reveals a corruption case...

General Mohamed Al-Assar: A general of the coup’s military junta dies

The Egyptian Minister of State for Military Production, Lieutenant-General Mohamed al-Assar, died on Monday at the age of 74, after struggling with coronavirus. Al-Assar's death came...

Less than 1% of GDP: Egypt’s government winks at social protection

The World Bank revealed low spending on social protection in Egypt, which leads to weak investment in human capital and dissatisfaction with the level of public services....

Raising the interest by 2%: Facing inflation may lead to recession

The Central Bank of Egypt decided, at its meeting, Thursday evening, to raise the overnight deposit and lending rates and the central bank's primary operation rate by...

Egypt and Qatar: A potential friendship faces obstacles

At the Al-Ula summit in Saudi Arabia last January, a declaration was issued to end the Gulf crisis. In that crisis, Egypt was involved, but now Cairo...

Egyptian authors face the guillotine as politics is prohibited

Writers and authors in Egypt are suffering from the guillotine of censorship and obstacles to obtaining a deposit number for books with titles that could be interpreted as being...

New labour regulations pave the way for privatisation and abolish labour rights

“Corporate workers do not disagree with the government about development. Rather, their disagreement stems in the method to be followed.” With these words, jurists and workers expressed...

The Egyptian army’s economy: dominance, corruption, and huge gains

The Egyptian military has been involved in the economy over the past 70 years, since Abdel Nasser to be precise, yet its role has expanded significantly since...

Secret police hire female thugs to beat Laila Soueif and her daughters

Mona Seif, sister of the detained Egyptian activist Alaa Abdelfattah, said that she and her sister Sanaa Seif and their mother, university professor Laila Soueif, 64, have...