Ukraine frees Egyptian dissident threatened with extradition

On Monday, the Ukrainian authorities released Moataz Mohamed Abdel Mawla, who was arrested on May 7, based on a notification from Interpol. The young man was threatened...

COVID-19 strikes Egypt as 1mn lose their jobs

The National Planning Institute affiliated with the Egyptian Ministry of Planning revealed that 824,000 citizens have already lost their jobs since the start of the coronavirus crisis...

The state of oppression: Egypt authorities respond to doctors’ anger with crackdown

During the past week Egypt has witnessed widespread anger among doctors after the death of Waleed Yehya, a young gynecologist aged 31 years. Doctor Waleed died after days of suffering...

The republic of fear: Al-Sisi uses corona to expand repression

While the coronavirus has raised fear across the world due to its impact on health, and sometimes its economic repercussions, COVID-19 has raised in Egypt fear of another kind... arrest.

The regime cuts the poor’s salaries and protects the rich

Egyptian activists have attacked the Egyptian government for agreeing to a draft law that deducts one per cent of the salaries of workers in the state and...

Relatives of Egypt’s exiled opponents are the regime’s hostages

Several days ago, The New York Times published a report that revealed the arrest of many of the relatives of Egyptian opponents. The arrests are to press them to...

Cracks in the Egypt-UAE alliance widen after Haftar’s defeats

Egyptian sources have revealed that differences have increased between the vision of both the Egyptian regime and the rulers of the UAE on how to manage the Libyan crisis, due...

Coronavirus creeps up on officials in Egypt

Egyptian media reports have revealed that coronavirus infections are no longer confined to the poor or marginalised and the general Egyptian population only, but have begun to clearly threaten Egyptian...

What does al-Sisi want from the Renaissance Dam negotiations?

Less than two months before Ethiopia will start filling the reservoir of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have shown willingness to return to negotiations again,...

Government holds monopoly over conducting coronavirus tests

In a statement, the Egyptian drug authority warned against selling or trading coronavirus diagnostic reagents, confirming that these reagents are imported for the benefit of government agencies...