HRW: The Egyptian government exposed the digital data of child students
Human Rights Watch has accused the Egyptian government and a private British company of sharing the personal information of tens of thousands of students over the Internet for at least eight months without protection, which violates the privacy of these…
Growing repression in Egypt reflects the exacerbation of political and economic crises
The Egyptian security authorities released Mrs Neama Hisham, the wife of the detained human rights lawyer, Mohamed El-Baqer, after detaining her illegally for about 12 hours on the grounds of her blogging about her husband being tortured and beaten inside…
Blocking news websites in Egypt: The government imposes blackout on failures
Last Sunday evening, the Egyptian authorities blocked the websites of Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for several hours after they published reports and news about Egyptian soldiers being held in Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces….
Egypt’s economic crisis: Sisi between creditors’ pressure and the danger of the Army’s wrath
This April, the Africa Intelligence website, which is close to French intelligence, published a report revealing the Egyptian army’s empire in the tourism sector, where the armed forces, with their various bodies and leaders, own a group of the most…
Egypt in critical status: Between Emirati pressure and the alliance with Sudanese military
After months of tensions, armed conflict erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, an official militia formed in 2013. Disputes started last December after the Framework Agreement between the Sudanese military and the Freedom and Change…
Militarizing the state is another face of the corruption coin
The Central Auditing Organization, one of the essential oversight bodies in Egypt, revealed legal and financial irregularities in the Prime Minister’s decision to appoint Major General Engineer Ehab Khedr as head of the National Authority for National Organization for Potable…
Exacerbating lack of medical supplies in Egypt rings the bells
The shortage of medical supplies in Egypt worsened because of tens of thousands of shipments accumulated in the ports due to the inability of banks to provide foreign exchange and the government’s reluctance to intervene to solve the crisis. This…
At $163 billion: Egypt’s foreign debt record forebodes bankruptcy
Egypt’s external debt increased by $8 billion during the last quarter of 2022, compared to the previous quarter, to reach $162.9 billion, according to brief data published by the Ministry of Planning. Egypt’s external debt increased over the past year…
Nubians: A critical case of an Egyptian minority
A month ago today, a small boat sank in the course of the Nile River in the far south of Egypt, which was carrying Egyptian citizens from Nubia, including children, which led to the drowning of 6 people. Amidst almost…
NAC’s new mosque shows out Sisi’s fiscal imprudence
While Abdel Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated the Misr Great Mosque, Egypt’s Islamic Cultural Center in the New Administrative Capital, with an area of 19,100 square meters and a capacity of more than 100,000 prayers, in addition to a multi-level garage, malls,…
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