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Egypt: Challenged Energy Sector Faces Another Brutal SummerF

Egypt faces a deepening energy crisis as natural gas production crashes 39%, forcing a return to costly LNG imports and the unpopular decision to use polluting fuel oil. With multinationals like Chevron exiting failed exploration blocks and summer blackouts looming,...

Syria’s New Ruler Faces Jihadist Rebellion and Internal StrifeF

Ahmed Al-Charaa, once a top jihadist leader, now rules Syria after toppling Bashar al-Assad. But his grip on power is fragile. While rebranding himself as a moderate, he faces opposition from the Islamic State, which sees him as an apostate, and from former allies who...

Egypt Gets Massive Injections of Cash, but Outlook is Still ShakyF

By Arezki Daoud | LinkedIn | Egypt has many powerful allies, including those in the global financial sector. No one wants to see it collapse, so money is flowing in a-go-go. Despite a dismal economic performance, global rating agencies, which acknowledge that Egypt is...

Egypt’s repressive regime wants to punish rights advocate over single tweetF

An Egyptian court is to issue a verdict on November 29 in the case of Hossam Bahgat, one of the country's most prominent rights advocates who is being tried over a tweet. At the conclusion of his trial on Tuesday Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for...

Egypt: Sisi uses Facebook to announce lifting of state of emergencyF

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday announced the lifting of the state of emergency in place since deadly jihadist attacks on Coptic Christian churches more than four years ago. The North African country has been under a state of emergency since April...

Lebanon: Deadly clashes in Beyrout after rally against port blast judgeF

By Rouba El Husseini and Hashem Osseiran: The health ministry said 32 people were wounded.  Amal said three of its members were killed, while Hezbollah announced that funerals of two men and one woman would take place on Friday.   A doctor at Beirut's Sahel hospital...

Disappointment in Italy after judges halt trial of Egyptian officers in murder of Giulio RegeniF

By Ella Ide: The trial of four Egyptian security officers in Rome for the brutal killing of Italian student Giulio Regeni five years ago was thrown out by judges Thursday, "bitterly" disappointing his family which vowed not to give up on the case.  The judges ruled...

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