39 deaths in 2022: Egypt’s prisons tombs of political detainees
September’s first half recorded three deaths of political detainees in Egyptian prisons due to lack of medical care, bringing the number of prison deaths during 2022 to at least 39 victims. Deaths continue while Egyptian authorities still present prisons in…
Young doctor deaths: Egyptian doctors burning out under the governmental yoke
Egyptian Medical Syndicate started to speak out about the recurrent burnout deaths of young doctors in Egyptian hospitals and clinics. The member of EMS and rapporteur of the syndicate-ministerial committee, Doctor Ibrahim El-Zayat, said to Al Masry Al Youm that…
Egypt: Sanctioning farmers collect no more than 4.2 million tons of wheat
The Egyptian government failed to manage its wheat target despite obligating farmers to deliver it. According to official statements, the quantities supplied to government silos and barns until the end of the wheat season on August 31 reached only 4.2…
Forced displacement in Arish: The government continues its dangerous policies
The Egyptian government began demolishing buildings in the Al-Raisa area on Al-Arish, North Sinai coast. The decision issued by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi allocated the 541 acres of space around Arish Seaport to the armed forces for developing the port. While…
Liquidation of Nasr Coke: Egyptian industry future on the edge
The extraordinary general assembly of Nasr Coke Industry decided last Monday to liquidate the company’s business, nearly 62 years after its establishment, to become the fourth state-owned industrial enterprise to be liquidated since 2018, despite the profits it made over…
Libyan Game of Thrones: Egypt between Bashagha and Dbaiba
Two weeks ago, violent clashes erupted in Tripoli between the forces of the Government of National Unity headed by Abdel Hamid Dbaiba and the armed forces siding with the ex-interior minister, Fathi Bashagha, who was assigned by the Libyan parliament…
Sisi circumvents the constitution to control the supervisory state apparatuses
On Tuesday, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appointed General Amr Adel as acting head of the Administrative Control Authority, succeeding General Hassan Abdel Shafy, who reached retirement age. Adel was selected as the “acting” head instead of being appointed directly as a…
Egypt’s Intelligence objects to Emirati acquisition of Nasr City Housing Company
The board of directors of Madinet Nasr Housing decided to reject an Emirati offer to acquire all the company’s shares. While the official reason was the weakness of the offered price, sources pointed out that the Egyptian Military Intelligence intervened…
Corruption scandal strikes Sisi-sponsored Nation’s Future party
The Egyptian General Intelligence Service is currently conducting a large-scale purge among the senior leaders of the state-sponsored Nation’s Future party, which seizes the majority in both chambers of the Egyptian parliament. The state watchdogs monitored the involvement of prominent…
Egypt’s journalists between harassment and illegal layoffs
The deterioration of journalists’ conditions in Egypt started when Abdel Fattah El-Sisi al-Sisi took office in 2014. Then onwards, the general decided to hold the press and media under a tight grip, keeping journalists who broke the regime’s red lines…
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