Why have many Egyptians refused the coronavirus vaccination?
Mervat Mahrous took a calm step towards the doctor who would give her the injection she had been waiting for. Inside the medical hall were others who were over the age of 65 or who had chronic diseases. These are…
Pregnant women suffer in Egypt’s prisons
In January 2021, Amnesty International issued a report about overcrowding in Egypt’s prisons with detainees who have to stay in cells with a relative area for each detainee of 1.1 metre, which is much lower than the international recommendations of…
Online renewal of remand: A new flaw in Egyptian trials
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has directed that online renewal of remand be used more regularly, a mechanism that adds a flaw to the politically-directed trials of detainees in Egypt. On 18 October 2020, the Ministry of Justice inaugurated a project for…
285 Egyptian women and girls detained in Egypt for political reasons
“The number of women in detention currently in Egypt has reached 285 women and girls.” This is what Egyptian human rights reports revealed on International Women’s Day. Reports revealed that 48 women and girls are serving their sentences in Egyptian…
Aboul Gheit becomes Arab League secretary-general for second round
Reluctantly, and amid muted disagreement the signals of which have emerged in public, Arab foreign ministers have reselected the Egyptian diplomat Ahmed Aboul Gheit as secretary-general of the Arab League, which is based in Cairo, for a second five-year term beginning…
Difficult years to come: Debt exacerbates Egypt’s crises
The heavy debt bill predicts a difficult fiscal year for Egypt during 2021 to meet foreign obligations and pay off outstanding debts with a total value of $21.4 billion. Since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in mid-2014 (the size…
Why is al-Sisi at war with social media?
Restrained laws and deterrent penalties make one think over and over before writing on social media in Egypt, which raises the question of why General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is fighting these sites, activists and human rights defenders say. Social media…
Kattan’s statement uncovers a muffled crisis between Saudi Arabia and Egypt
“Shafiq is the legitimate president of Egypt, and the Egyptian army conspired against Morsi.” This was the summary of the shocking speech of the Saudi Minister of State for African Countries, Ahmed Kattan, which indicates the existence of a crisis…
What comes after the Egypt-Sudan GERD rapprochement?
There are signs of a growing rapprochement between Egypt and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which Ethiopia is adopting on the Blue Nile, which raises questions about the two countries’ options to besiege Addis Ababa. This rapprochement came…
A month into Biden’s presidency: Has he kept his promise about Egypt?
General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime, the most repressive in Egypt’s modern history, continues to punish and silence its critics in clear defiance of the new US President Joe Biden. The Biden administration deals with the Egyptian government just as former…
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