No free markets: The Egyptian authorities take over the money of businessmen
Periodic raids are carried out by the Egyptian authorities on business people without a clear or understandable reason. Some of them are suddenly arrested, their money seized, their companies confiscated, and then they are suddenly released. The raids on business…
Al-Sisi subdues Al-Masry Al-Youm daily after years of resistance
Sources inside Al-Masry Al-Youm have said that a decision to liquidate the newspaper was recently issued by its owner, the Egyptian businessman Salah Diab, days after his release from prison. The exclusive sources told Egypt Watch that an expanded meeting…
The deficit in the balance of payments persists in Egypt
A statement issued by the Central Bank has revealed that the balance of payments achieved a total deficit of $8.6 billion during the last fiscal year 2019/2020, and the deficit came entirely in the second half of the fiscal year….
After al-Sisi’s visit, will Egypt establish a military base in South Sudan?
An unannounced visit, the first of its kind and for one day only, by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the nascent state of South Sudan, aroused much surprise and speculation. The visit witnessed bilateral talks between al-Sisi and the President of…
Egypt-Russia tension comes out into the open
The Russian Ambassador in Cairo, Georgy Borisenko, published an open message on his official page on Facebook directed to Emad al-Deen Hussein, the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian newspaper Al Shorouk, in response to his critical article entitled “A new pause…
Egypt authorities wiretap mobile phones
Many warnings were issued by opponents and activists in Egypt about the danger of mobile phones and talking about political matters or criticism of the government. Everything that citizens say is monitored and recorded according to their assertions. Several human…
Italy turns against Egypt over human rights
A state of tension has come to dominate Egyptian-Italian relations, which threatens to impede the implementation of economic and military cooperation agreements between the two countries. This tension appeared in the escalation of Italian anger against Egypt in cases related…
EIPR’s detainees: Hostages in Egypt for future negotiations with Biden
In April 2017, three months after the outgoing American President, Donald Trump, won the elections, an American military plane took off to Cairo Airport to transport the Egyptian-American political prisoner Aya Hijazi to Andrews Air Base on the outskirts of…
The Renaissance Dam negotiations: The crisis gets complicated
Ethiopia won a new card in the Renaissance Dam negotiations, in light of the Egyptian-Sudanese dispute’s escalation, despite Cairo’s attempts to contain it and to make concessions to Khartoum. With gains and losses, the hypothetical meeting between the foreign and…
Sectarian strife rears its head in Egypt again: Who woke it up?
Egypt is witnessing signs of the resurgence of the crisis of sectarian strife again in Egypt between Muslim and Christian citizens. It is the bomb the ruling regime resort to threatening to detonate it to divert attention from its own…
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