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On Sunday, Egypt's President, Mohammed Morsi, ordered the retirement of Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Egypt's Defence Minister and Head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF); the...

Dr. Essam El-Erian, the acting head of Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party, and Chairman of the Parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee in Cairo, has described parliament's decision to refer the...

The chairman of the legal committee of the Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt has said that presidential powers will allow Mohammed Morsi to annul the military decision to...

The Carter Centre has expressed deep concern about the constitutional and political situation in Egypt which calls into question the purpose and meaning of the presidential election. In a...

A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has called upon the country's military leadership not to shed the blood of fellow Egyptians. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has said that the country's revolutionaries will not abandon their right to sovereignty, freedom and democracy. Criticising the Egyptian Army's repression of demonstrators in...

It is sad that Egypt's first post-Mubarak elections – in which millions of Egyptians have cast their votes, reportedly with a 70% turnout – are being held under the...

A 200km barricade being built along the Egypt-Israel border, originally designed to deter illegal immigrants and smugglers from entering Israel, has this week taken on a new significance. In...

Now that the results of Egypt's presidential elections have been declared, it is left to be seen exactly how much power the ruling junta will relinquish. With the proclamation...