Cairo has significantly intensified its military involvement in Somalia, driven by mounting anxieties over regional power dynamics in the Horn of Africa. This escalation follows Israel’s late‑December 2025 recognition of Somaliland, a territory that broke away from...
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U.S. Immigration Policy and the Changing Landscape of Africa-U.S. Travel
As the United States prepares to implement a new round of immigration and visa policy changes in 2026, the effects are being felt across Africa and parts of the Middle East. What began as a technical overhaul of screening and enforcement procedures has evolved into a...
Migration: 17 Migrants, Mostly Egyptians, Lost at Sea on the Road to Greece
Fourteen Egyptians have been confirmed dead after an irregular migrant boat capsized on the way to Greece, the latest in a long line of disasters on one of the world’s deadliest migration routes. Greek and Egyptian officials say dozens of people were on board the...
Egypt’s Red Sea Crisis Intersects with U.S. Trade Strategy in Global Infrastructure Rivalry
Egypt’s foreign minister warned last week that Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea have cost the country more than $9 billion in lost Suez Canal revenue, an economic blow now tied to broader U.S.-led efforts to reshape global trade routes. Speaking in...
Egypt Draws a Red Line on Nile Rights in GERD Dispute
Egypt is insisting that Nile water security is an uncompromising national priority, with the country’s leadership rejecting any attempts at political bargaining on its access to the river. The latest remarks, delivered by Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly at...
Egypt’s Fuel Price Hike Deepens Economic Strain Amid IMF Reforms
Egypt has raised domestic fuel prices sharply as part of a multi-faceted effort to stabilize the country's economy amidst persistent fiscal pressure and regional turbulence. Effective October 17, 2025, all grades of gasoline, diesel, and compressed natural gas used in...
Egypt Pegs its Power Supply to New Israeli Gas Imports
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week referred in court to a “historic” natural gas deal with Egypt,...
Egypt’s Debt Diplomacy: How Brussels Became Cairo’s Latest Creditor of Confidence
When European and Egyptian leaders convened in Brussels for their first‑ever EU–Egypt Summit on 22 October 2025, the...
Egypt’s Red Sea Crisis Intersects with U.S. Trade Strategy in Global Infrastructure Rivalry
Egypt’s foreign minister warned last week that Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea have cost the...
Repression: How the Egyptian army destroyed the Sinai in the name of the “war on terror”
Egyptian troops have demolished more than 12,300 buildings in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013 in a campaign of forced...
Egypt considers critics and political opponents as terrorists, world starting to push back
By Nina Larson - Egypt must stop using anti-terrorism laws to muzzle critics and even keep them in pre-trial detention...
Egypt’s dilapidated infrastructure: Fire at a garment factory near Cairo kills 20 workers
At least 20 people were killed and 24 others injured Thursday in a clothing factory fire on the eastern outskirts of...
Egypt continues to favor capital punishment, executes 11 people
Egyptian authorities on Tuesday executed 11 people convicted of murder, a security source said, in the latest cases of...
Egypt: Boat capsizes on Lake Mariout, nine killed
Nine people drowned and at least four were missing Tuesday after a boat chartered for a family fishing trip capsized...
Egypt-USA: Biden administration maintains support to Egypt’s Sisi, sells him more weapons
US President Joe Biden's administration on Tuedsay approved a nearly $200 million arms sale to Egypt but vowed to...
Egypt: Al-Jazeera’s Mahmoud Hussein free at last after spending four years in Egyptian prison
By Mona Salem with Gregory Walton in Doha - Egypt has freed a journalist for Qatar's Al Jazeera, a security source...
Covid-19: Vaccination campaign begins in Egypt
Egypt began its Covid-19 immunisation program Sunday, becoming one of the first countries in Africa to vaccinate its...
Egypt: Unsolved murder of Giulio Regeni continues to irk Italy
Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Monday urged Egypt to cooperate with prosecutors seeking to try four Egyptian...
Unable to govern, North African governments are using repression as their only tool in their toolbox
This week (ending 21 January 2021), Tunisia made the front pages of global media with Tunisians clashing with security...
Egypt: Decade after anti-regime protests, General Sisi neutralized opposition, killed democracy
The Muslim Brotherhood's existential fight: can it manage a comeback? The Arab Spring a decade ago gave Egypt's Muslim...
Egypt: Saudi Arabia allows Egypt to restore relations with Qatar
Egypt and Qatar agreed Wednesday to restore diplomatic relations, Egypt's foreign ministry said, after a...
Egypt: first commercial flight from Qatar to Egypt in three and a half years
The first direct flights since 2017 between Qatar and its former rivals Egypt and the UAE took to the skies on Monday,...
Egypt targets Muslim Brotherhood members, including late President Morsi, with asset seizures
An Egyptian court on Sunday ordered the seizure of assets of former president Mohamed Morsi and 88 other members of...
Egypt makes a mockery of justice: it keeps social media influencers in prison, despite acquittal
An Egyptian court Thursday prolonged the detention of two young women, accusing them of human trafficking connected to...
Egypt: How Egypt is tormenting jailed journalists
A freelance Egyptian journalist who worked for pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera and was arrested on false news and...
Egypt: Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine headed to Egypt, with late January rollout
Egypt has approved the use of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharma giant Sinopharm with its rollout to start...
Egypt: Covid-19 deaths due to shortage of oxygen in Egypt
Egypt said Sunday it had opened an investigation into the deaths of four Covid-19 patients in an intensive care unit...
Egypt angry at Ethiopia after Ethiopian diplomat spoke of Egypt’s internal problems
Egypt's foreign ministry said it has summoned Ethiopia's top diplomat in Cairo over comments by an Addis Ababa...
Egypt: Anger in Rome after Egypt cleared policemen in Giulio Regeni murder case
The Italian government has described as "unacceptable" a decision by Egypt's public prosecutor to clear five police...
Egypt: Seven patients killed in fire inside Obour hospital
A fire at a hospital north of Cairo on Saturday killed seven coronavirus patients, security and judicial sources said....
Egypt: More unrest in Egypt with explosion of gas pipeline supplying El Arish
A blast hit a gas pipeline in Egypt's restive North Sinai region Thursday, a security source told AFP. "An explosion...
Egypt: No New Year celebrations allowed this year in Egypt
Egypt has called off all New Year's celebrations in order to stem rising coronavirus cases in the country, Prime...
Egypt: Religious minorities vulnerable as court acquits men who attacked Christian woman
An Egyptian court acquitted Thursday three defendants who stripped and dragged an elderly Coptic Christian woman...
Egypt’s collective punishment of inmates
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt Thursday of imposing punitive conditions on hundreds of inmates at one of its most...
Egypt: How both the military and IS terrorize the people of Sinai
Residents of Egypt's restive North Sinai region ran for their lives when an Islamic State group affiliate occupied...
Egypt: Bloodbath in Sinai, army claims it killed 40 “takfiris”
The Egyptian army said Tuesday it had killed 40 suspected jihadist militants since September in air and ground...
Egypt: French President Macron fails to confront Sisi on Egypt’s human rights abuses
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday rejected criticism of his close ties with visiting Egyptian strongman Abdel...
Egypt’s crumbling infrastructure: three killed in building collapse in Alexandria
Three people died on Wednesday when a dilapidated building collapsed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a security...
Egypt and Italy appear to abandon the pursuit of truth in murder of Guilio Regeni in Egypt
Egypt is to "temporarily close" its investigation into the murder in Cairo of Italian student Guilio Regeni, for which...
Egypt arrests photographer because he took this photo of Salma al-Shimi
Egyptian police have detained a photographer for disrespect after he shot images of a dancer in ancient costume at the...
How Arab people’s efforts to bring democracy are undermined by online fake news
The incompetent Arab regimes: Opinion by Arezki Daoud Arab governments have perfected the science of fake news and...
Egypt continues to jail human rights activists
Egyptian authorities on Wednesday arrested a second staff member of a leading local human rights group, the...
German prosecutors charge man with spying for Egypt
A man who worked in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's press office has been charged with spying for Egypt, prosecutors...
Egypt: Man tries to sets himself alight during anti-government protest
An Egyptian man set himself alight in central Cairo in an anti-government protest on Thursday, but was stopped before...
Egypt: Helicopter of observer force crashes in Sinai, seven killed
A helicopter crash in Egypt's Sinai desert involving a multi-national observer force killed seven people on Thursday...
Egypt: New initiatives to restore the ‘City of the Dead’
In Egypt's "City of the Dead", centuries-old monuments are being restored and artisanal heritage revived, turning a...
Egypt: Impasse in talks over Ethiopia dam
Sudan said Wednesday the latest round of talks with Egypt and Ethiopia over Addis Ababa's controversial dam on the...
Egypt: 15-year jail sentence for a sit-in
An Egyptian court sentenced 59 suspected members of the Muslim Brotherhood to 15 years in prison on Thursday for...
Egypt on a killing spree: 49 people executed by the government in 10 days
Egypt executed 49 prisoners in just 10 days in October, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, calling for authorities to...