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Sudan, Egypt want international community to intervene ahead of Ethiopia’s plans to go ahead with the second filling of the dam this summer.
Sudan wants UN Security Council to discuss Ethiopia’s Nile dam
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Egypt upholds death penalty for 12 Muslim Brotherhood members
Egypt’s highest civilian court on Monday upheld death sentences for 12 Muslim Brotherhood members, c…
01/06/2021
Egypt: Rights groups call for immediate end to crackdown on activists
Sixty-three organisations, including Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International, have called…
17/03/2021
HRW says over 12,300 Sinai buildings razed by Egypt army
Egyptian troops have demolished more than 12,300 buildings in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013 in a ca…
21/02/2021
Egypt’s stateless keep receiving empty promises of citizenship
The Egyptian Ministry of Interior has recently granted citizenship to three stateless individuals wh…
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The Implications of Egypt’s Military Economy
The Carnegie report “Owners of the Republic: An Anatomy of Egypt’s Military Economy” details how the…
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Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) is calling on members of Congress to interrogate Egypt’s intelligence chief about reports that Cairo was involved in the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Calls for Marital Rape Criminalization in Egypt After Viral Instagram Video
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New death sentences in Egypt demand us to seek clemency for the accused
Two weeks ago, the Court of Cassation in Egypt upheld the death sentences handed down to 12 defendants in the Rabaa Al-Adawiya protest dispersal case. The court reduced the sentences of 31 others from death to a life sentence.
Egyptian student sentenced to four years for publishing “false news”
A Misdemeanours Emergency State Security Court in Egypt today sentenced researcher and master’s student Ahmed Samir Santawy to four years in prison after convicting him of publishing “false news”, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Research and Advocacy Director, Philip Luther said:
UPDATE: Forty-five people injured in Alexandria train collision
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health and Population in Alexandria Saeed Mamoun al-Saqaan announced that the number of injuries from an Alexandria train collision has risen to 45.