By Arezki Daoud: What is happening in Syria cannot leave us insensitive to the plight of the Syrian people, who have endured decades of abuse from the Assad family and its cronies. From the father Hafad al-Assad to his son Bachar al-Assad, the Syrian people...
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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 the image of an Egypt complying with international human rights standards, but the security apparatus remains active in undermining those efforts and...
Egypt Gets Massive Injections of Cash, but Outlook is Still Shaky
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 Demographic Time Bomb
This month of June 2024, the Egyptian population reached the record number 106.4 million people. Egyptians added 126,000 babies in just one month. Dividing this by 30 days, fetches 4,200 babies per day. The Egyptian government does not like this trend because this...
War in Gaza forces former Middle East foes to seek reconciliation
By Mondafrique: The war in Gaza is forcing feuding States in the Middle East and in the Gulf to seek the path of reconciliations. Faced with President Biden’s inability to impose a red line on Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the four most influential...
Egypt: One killed, six arrested in gun battle on Egypt-Israel border
A gunfire broke out near Nitzana, Israel, along the border crossing separating Egypt and Israel. The incident, which involved more than a dozen people, resulted in the death of one person. Six people were arrested. The Egyptian authorities insist that the incident was...
Egypt: One killed, six arrested in gun battle on Egypt-Israel border
A gunfire broke out near Nitzana, Israel, along the border crossing separating Egypt and Israel. The incident, which...
Egypt’s economy hit hard by Houthis’ attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea
The US and the UK hitting Houthi targets in Yemen is largely the result of a sense of panic taking place in commercial...
Six more years: Egypt’s al-Sisi gets “reelected” with “nearly 90%” of the vote as the economy faces freefall
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has won a third term with 89.6 percent of the vote in the Arab world's most...
Egypt intercepts drone of unknown origin in Sinai as region remains destabilized
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Egypt: Italy sets new trial for Egyptians accused of student’s murder
A court in Italy on Monday set a February date for a new trial in absentia of four Egyptian security officers accused...
Turkey welcomes Palestinian cancer patients after they entered Egypt
More than two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, who had crossed from Gaza into Egypt, arrived in Turkey for treatment...
Egypt opens Rafah Border, to allow safe passage to foreign nationals
Egypt will help evacuate "about 7,000" foreigners and dual nationals from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, the foreign...
Third aid convoy enters Gaza via Egypt border crossing
An aid convoy entered the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday via the Rafah border crossing, AFP correspondents on the...
Egypt: Relief convoys in Egypt head towards Gaza border crossing
Relief convoys which have been waiting for days in Egypt were Tuesday headed towards the Rafah border crossing with...
Israel-Gaza conflicts bleeds into Egypt, policeman kills two Israeli tourists and their guide in Alexandria
An Egyptian policeman shot dead two Israeli tourists and their Egyptian guide Sunday, local media and Israeli...
Egyptian policeman clashes with Israeli soldiers, kills three
Three Israeli soldiers and a member of Egypt's security forces were killed Saturday in a rare exchange of fire near...
Egypt: After condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Egypt-Russia want to “strengthen relations”
Erratum: A previous title for this article wrongly suggested that an Egyptian delegation traveled to Russia. It should...
Egypt faces major risks this year as economy continues to fall apart
“Chicken feet are good for you…” The Egyptian pound traded Wednesday at half its value from March after the central...
Egypt: IS claims attack in Ismailia that killed three policemen
The Islamic State group said Saturday that it carried out a deadly attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in the Suez...
Egypt: Three policemen killed, others wounded in attack in Suez Canal city
Three Egyptian policemen were killed and four others, including a police officer, wounded Friday in an attack in the...
Defense: US offers more military aid to Egypt
President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday approved most military aid to Egypt for a second straight year...
Despite dismal human rights abuses, Egypt to acquire advanced F-15 fighter jets
A senior US general told Congress Tuesday that the United States will sell Egypt advanced F-15 fighter jets, despite...
Egypt and France in joint naval exercises
Egypt has kicked off joint air and naval drills with France, one of its biggest arms suppliers, in the Mediterranean,...
Security: Egypt ups its military hardware with US and South Korean purchase spree
Egypt has signed a $1.66 billion deal for South Korean howitzers, the military said Wednesday, a week after Washington...
Egypt: Italian parliamentary commission accuses Egypt security services of murdering Italian student Giulio Regeni
Egypt's security agency is to blame for the 2016 torture and death of an Italian graduate student in Cairo, according...
Egyptian court sentences 22 Jihadists to death by hanging
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced to death by hanging 22 Islamist militants for 54 attacks including the...
Central African Republic’s presidential guards fire on Egyptian soldiers, wound 10
Members of the Central African Republic's presidential guard fired on Egyptian peacekeepers in capital Bangui,...
Egypt: Sisi uses Facebook to announce lifting of state of emergency
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday announced the lifting of the state of emergency in place since...
Lebanon: Deadly clashes in Beyrout after rally against port blast judge
By Rouba El Husseini and Hashem Osseiran: The health ministry said 32 people were wounded. Amal said three of its...
Egypt: Sisi hosts Israeli PM Naftali Bennett
By Sarah Benhaida and Farid Farid: Israel's Naftali Bennett met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday, on...
Egypt army says 13 jihadists killed in Sinai
Egyptian forces have killed 13 Islamist militants during clashes in the restive Sinai Peninsula, the army said. In a...
Egypt: Intense violence in North Sinai
Egypt's military said Sunday it has killed 89 suspected insurgents in operations in North Sinai, a region where an...
Middle East: Carnage in Baghdad with dozens killed in suicide attack ahead of Eid
By Salam Faraj: Iraq was in mourning Tuesday for dozens of people killed when a bomb ripped through a crowded Baghdad...
Egypt: More tension in Egypt after Ethiopia resumes filling of its giant dam
The conflict over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile Ethiopia's construction of a massive dam on a...
Egypt seeks to appease concern over impact of Ethiopian dam on water supply
Egypt's foreign minister has said that moves by Ethiopia to resume filling its vast dam on the Nile in the coming...
Egypt worsens its foreign debt to buy more French fighter jets
Editor’s Opinion: They spend money they don’t have on military equipment they don’t need By Arezki Daoud - Egypt is...
Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula continues on its path to complete instability
Egypt's interior ministry said Monday it killed three "terrorist elements" in the Sinai Peninsula suspected of...
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-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: 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: 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...
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: 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...
Podcast: An overstretched Egypt and the seeds of future unrest
In this 20-minute podcast, MEA Risk analyst Arezki Daoud discusses how overstretched Egypt is and what could be the...
Egypt: Violent military operation in North Sinai with army saying it killed 73 insurgents
Cairo, Aug 30, 2020 - Egypt's army announced Sunday that more than 70 alleged jihadists have been killed in recent...
Libya: Patchwork of divided tribes complicate the Libyan crisis
As Egypt flexes its muscle with threats to intervene in Libya's civil war, its President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has...
As tensions escalate in the east Med Sea, Egypt and Greece announce joint economic zone
Cairo, Aug 6, 2020 - Egypt and Greece signed an agreement Thursday to set up an exclusive economic zone in the eastern...