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Egypt’s Red Sea Crisis Intersects with U.S. Trade Strategy in Global Infrastructure Rivalry
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Egypt Draws a Red Line on Nile Rights in GERD Dispute
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Egypt’s Fuel Price Hike Deepens Economic Strain Amid IMF Reforms
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Egypt: Challenged Energy Sector Faces Another Brutal Summer
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,...
U.S. Trade Policy Is Accelerating China–North Africa Economic and Defense Engagement
U.S. trade tariffs are accelerating China’s push into developing economies, with North Africa emerging as a key frontier. From a $265 million phosphate plant in Egypt to multi-billion-dollar industrial agreements in Algeria and renewed commercial diplomacy in Libya,...
Egypt: Efforts at a National Dialogue Undermined by an Unhinged Political Police
Egypt is sending mix signals on its human rights records. Some in Cairo’s political system are trying hard to project...
Egypt Gets Massive Injections of Cash, but Outlook is Still Shaky
Egypt’s Demographic Time Bomb
Egypt: Canadian national held in custody in Egypt on unknown charges
Feb 24, 2019 - A Canadian citizen has been arrested in Egypt, his family has told public news network CBC, asking that...
Egypt: Opposition party members arrested by Sisi regime
Cairo, Feb 23, 2019 - An Egyptian opposition party founded by Nobel laureate Mohamed El Baradei denounced Saturday a...
Egypt: Executions by hanging continue this week
Cairo, Feb 20, 2019 - Egypt hanged nine men on Wednesday for the 2015 assassination of the prosecutor general,...
Egypt: Terror attack in Cairo kills three policemen
Cairo, Feb 19, 2019 - A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the heart of ancient Islamic Cairo, killing...
Egypt escalates executions by hanging
Feb 13, 2019 - Three prisoners convicted of killing a police officer were hanged in Egypt on Wednesday, bringing to...
Egypt military claims it killed two insurgents in Western Desert
Cairo, Feb 2, 2019 (AFP) - Egypt's military said Saturday it had killed eight jihadists in air strikes in the Western...
Egypt: Al Sisi, President for Life
Cairo, Feb 3, 2019 - Egyptian lawmakers on Sunday tabled proposed constitutional changes that would allow President...
Urban Issues: The stray dogs and wild boars of North African cities
Opinion by Arezki Daoud - January 29, 2019: There could be as many as 15 million stray dogs roaming the streets of...
Egypt sinks deeper into dangerous conservatism, jails TV host Gheiti over gay interview
Editor's note- By Arezki Daoud: Egypt is going through a tumultuous period, not just because of the terror attacks...
Egypt: Army says it killed five insurgents in North Sinai
Cairo, Jan 16, 2019 - Egyptian police killed five suspected Islamic militants in North Sinai, where security forces...
Egypt court orders release of mother held over ‘false news’
Cairo, Jan 15, 2019 (AFP) - An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered the release of a woman accused of spreading "false...
Egypt: Al-Azhar leaders lost their minds that even top conservative cleric asked them to think a little
They lost the trust of the population and now some Egyptian leaders appear to just have lost their minds. One of them,...
Egypt deports second German alleged ‘jihadist’
Berlin, Jan 14, 2019 (AFP) - Egypt has deported the second of two young German men who were arrested last month as...
Eastern Mediterranean countries to boost energy ties
Cairo, Jan 14, 2019 - Eastern Mediterranean countries including Egypt and Israel agreed on Monday to boost energy ties...
Egypt: Six suspected militants killed by police in Sohag
Cairo, Jan 12, 2019 (AFP) - Egyptian police killed six suspected Islamist militants in a shootout early Saturday in...
Egypt arrests two Germans suspected to be joining Islamic State
Cairo, Jan 11, 2019 - Egypt has arrested two German nationals on suspicion they tried to join an Islamic State group...
Egypt: Activist Ahmed Douma gets 15 years in prison
Cairo, Jan 9, 2019 - A leading figure in Egypt's 2011 revolution [see profile here] was handed 15 years in prison on...
Profile: Ahmed Douma, Egyptian Political Activist and Blogger
A leading figure in Egypt's 2011 revolution was handed 15 years in prison on Wednesday after a retrial, a judicial...
Egypt: Qatar’s beIN stops broadcasting on Egypt’s CNE cable network
Doha, Jan 8, 2019 - Qatar broadcasting giant beIN said on Tuesday it will stop broadcasting programmes on its only...
Egypt police officer killed defusing church bomb
Cairo, Jan 6, 2019 (AFP) - A policeman was killed while trying to dismantle an explosive device outside a Coptic...
Egypt’s Sisi to inaugurate Coptic cathedral after bomb blast
Cairo, Jan 6, 2019 (AFP) - Egypt's president will inaugurate the country's biggest cathedral on Coptic Christmas Eve...
Egypt wants CBS to drop Sisi interview on Israel cooperation: network
Washington, Jan 4, 2019 (AFP) - Egypt has asked CBS not to air an interview with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in...
Not such a happy new year for North Africa
The North Africa Journal: January 11, 2018- The new year started off on the wrong foot for North African nations, and...
The Jihadists are back
The North Africa Journal - 22 November, 2017: Although authorities have so far been able to contain the militant...
Egypt: MEA Risk reports new spike in deaths in Egypt, as confrontations between security services and insurgent groups escalate
Egypt: Militants challenge state of emergency, kill 23 soldiers in third attack this week
How Egypt is escalating the war against its own people: the dark road ahead
Libya/Egypt: Egyptian air strikes target Derna’s al-Jabilah neighborhood
Fresh violence in Egypt, 28 civilians and four security personnel killed in two days
Egypt’s tough balancing act: The contradictory task of ensuring social peace while delivering economic growth
Egypt: From military-insurgents confrontation, Sinai conflict shifts to civil war
The North Africa Journal - May 17, 2017: The crisis in the Sinai Peninsula is now spreading both geographically and in...
Despite economic hardship, defense spending in North Africa & Sahel on the rise
Egypt: Death toll reaches 49, as government declares state of emergency
The North Africa Journal - April 10, 2017 - President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi declared a three-months state of emergency...
Egypt’s troubles escalate as terrorism undermines any recovery
The North Africa Journal - April 9, 2017 - At least 36 people were killed today (April 9, 2017) in two attacks against...
Egypt: Russian troops in Egypt, near Libya border to help Haftar retake control of oil sites
Egypt: Mubarak walks free
Libya: Egypt claims AQIM participated in seizure of oil-rich town
How Egypt’s charm offensive abroad is in sharp contrast with its domestic politics
Women’s rights: one step forward, two steps back
