A ministerial meeting on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam was held on Friday in Addis Ababa with the participation of Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, World Bank representatives and the United States....

The Arab Spring did not start in Egypt, but it was there where it ended. In 2011, Egyptian citizens took to the streets to protest the rule of Hosni...

Political scientists define war as “intensive policy”; this is something that applies to sport in the Arab world. It reveals deep crises, both between states and in their foreign...

The US has threatened Egypt with sanctions over its decision to buy Russian jets, reports the Wall Street Journal. According to an unnamed official a letter sent by Secretary...

Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have set up a joint strategic investment platform worth $20 billion, the presidency announced yesterday. Egyptian presidential spokesman Bassam Radi said in a...

The Egyptian newspaper Al-Dustour has published a photo of six Egyptian artists who have spoken out against the Sisi regime wishing them death. “Death snatches the flower of promising...

Mohamed Nabawi, a former spokesman for the Tamarod movement which led to the ousting of President Mohamed Morsi, was arrested on charges of possession of drugs. Nabawi was referred to...

Egypt’s unemployment rate rose to 7.8 per cent in the third quarter of 2019, compared to 7.5 per cent in the previous quarter, state-run Central Agency for Public Mobilisation...

Representatives of a wide range of countries have expressed concern over Egypt’s human rights record at the UN Universal Periodic Review. Concern over torture, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, mass...

Al-Azhar yesterday evening called on the international community to “take a humanitarian stand” against the “terrorist” practices of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people. In a statement, the...

Detained Egyptian activist Israa Abdelfattah is about to begin a thirst strike to force the prosecutor to open an investigation into complaints that she has been tortured in custody....

The Egyptian authorities have allowed detained Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein to attend his father’s funeral, the news channel reported yesterday. Mahmoud’s father, 74-year-old Hussein Jumaa passed away on...

The Egyptian Cabinet yesterday approved a draft decision issued by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi granting an amnesty to a number of prisoners on the occasion of Police Day and...

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) yesterday announced that it would issue $1.560 billion of treasury bills for one year on Monday. “The treasury bills’ maturity date is 17...

The spokesperson for the Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowment refuted as “groundless” reports that the government is planning to impose fees of Muslims attending Friday prayers in mosques. News...

Germany’s arms exports to Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has significantly rose in the first half of this year despite the two countries’ involvement in the Yemen...

At least seven people were killed and 16 injured in a fire in a Nile Delta village on Wednesday evening, hours after the attempted theft of gas from a...

Egypt is preparing to celebrate the launch of its first communication satellite “TIBA-1” on 22 November, Anadolu reported. According to Egyptian news reports, the satellite is to provide internet...

The family of Mahmoud Hussein, the imprisoned Al Jazeera journalist, are calling on Egyptian authorities to give him permission to attend his father’s funeral after he passed away yesterday....

A young Egyptian woman who denounced the regime in a video posted online has disappeared after leaving a voice message to the public. “Central security is here. They’ve come...

The Egyptian Ministry of Transport announced on Tuesday that a young man has died from wounds he sustained after jumping from a moving train to avoid paying a fine...

Egypt’s Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been ruled out of their African Cup of Nations qualifiers against Kenya and Comoros with an ankle injury. Egypt released a statement on...

Egypt has been trying to deflect criticism of its human rights record and prison conditions ahead of a UN review in Geneva on Wednesday that comes in the wake...

Political detainees are systematically tortured and deprived of their basic rights

General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is trying to build an individual dictatorship to rival those of the 20th century. He seems certain that it will cement his name in history...

Discontent is swelling among high-ranking Egyptian judicial sources angry about the growing influence of Al-Sisi’s brother, Counselor Ahmed Al-Sisi, sources have told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. Ahmed Al-Sisi has played a...

The UN must investigate the death of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and hold those responsible for his murder to account, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday. “As part...

Security authorities in Egypt hid a woman, her husband and her baby after arresting them ten days ago. The mother’s brother was arrested and disappeared a week later, according...

The Egyptian judiciary decided Sunday to release the former justice minister who served in the Mohammed Morsi government, reports Anadolu Agency. Prosecutors ruled former Justice Minister Ahmed Suleiman would...

The prison conditions in Egypt may have directly led to the death of former President Mohamed Morsi, and may be placing the health and lives of thousands more prisoners...

Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, has warned Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi against injustice. Al-Tayeb reminded the Egyptian president that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)...

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday evening that the meeting with representatives of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to resolve the long dispute over the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has...