Egypt: Girl ‘forcibly disappeared’ after demanding justice for father killed by police
Ali Salem was killed by police forces in broad daylight with a ‘close-range bullet to his head’, a rights group has said Egyptian security forces killed a farmer then forcibly disappeared his daughter who spoke out about his case, a rights…
Israel-Palestine war: Riled by Israel’s Gaza plans, Egypt pushes back
Egypt is telling the US that Israel’s stated goal to remove Hamas from governing the Gaza Strip is an unrealistic war aim, according to sources familiar with the matter. The warnings are being delivered regularly by Egyptian officials as Cairo…
Egypt ‘second most at risk of debt crisis after Ukraine’
Egypt is the country second most at risk of a debt crisis, coming just after war-torn Ukraine, according to analysis by Bloomberg. The data showed that, taking into account public debt, interest costs and yield on dollar bonds, Egypt’s economy was the most at…
Egypt: Detained government critic Hisham Kassem begins hunger strike
The 64-year-old publisher and prominent activist is a founding member of the Free Current, a political alliance seeking to propose liberal alternatives to the military-controlled economic policies of the Sisi government. Egyptian opposition activist Hisham Kassem has begun a hunger strike…
Human rights organizations: The son of former Egyptian parliamentarian Saad Amara died in mysterious circumstances inside his prison
Suhaib is one of four detained brothers, and their father, Saad Amara, the former MP for Damietta Governorate. Today, Wednesday, three Egyptian human rights organizations announced the detainee’s death, Suhaib Saad Emara, inside his prison cell in the New Valley…
Egypt’s Sisi feared arrest in South Africa over Rabaa crimes, ex-minister says
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi cancelled a trip to South Africa because he feared being arrested for his role in the Rabaa massacre, a former minister has said. The revelation was made by Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, a former minister of trade and…
Egypt: Army officer was on plane seized in Zambia, say reports
An Egyptian army major was reportedly aboard a private plane carrying millions of dollars in cash, gold, and weapons, that was seized by Zambian authorities earlier this week, open-source investigations have alleged. The names of five Egyptians aboard the chartered plane were revealed in a…
Rabaa massacre: A decade on, Egypt remains clouded by denial
A decade ago, in the early morning hours of 14 August 2013, a haunting symphony of gunshots pierced the air, forever etching a somber tale into my consciousness. What might have sounded like the customary exuberance of wedding festivities in Egypt soon unraveled…
Egypt: Ten years after Rabaa, families still in the dark over fate of missing children
It’s 7:30pm and in Egypt‘s hopelessly gridlocked capital, the cacophonous symphony of honks and beeps ring out from the overcrowded streets. The sounds drown out the roars of children playing football and the sunset call for prayer. But inside Badria el-Sayed’s…
Rabaa massacre: The founding social contract of Sisi’s new republic
Ten years since the biggest mass killing in the country’s modern history, the state has decimated the public’s right to dissent. Ten years ago in broad daylight, Egypt’s police and military carried out the biggest massacre in the country’s modern history. …
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