Marsad Egypt Egyptian Security Sector Observatory As climate change accelerates, the Nile dispute has entered a new era of complexity, prompting regional states to compete for water, food, and energy security.
The Nile Dispute: Beyond Water Security
Egypt’s currency crisis is killing young people’s dreams
In a bustling café in downtown Cairo, a young man throws his hands in the air in despair after he converts the price of a plane ticket to Germany from euros to Egyptian Pounds.
Egypt: The Price of Inaction on Tax Reform
Like public finances elsewhere, the public finances of the Egyptian state suffer from a semi-permanent deficit. Although a limited deficit in state budgets is acceptable for most prevailing economic theories, the persistent and worsening deficit in public budgets leads to severe phases during which the economy suffers.
India, Egypt will seek to deepen military cooperation
India and Egypt will seek to deepen military cooperation, including between their defence industries, India’s foreign secretary said on Wednesday.
Parliament reviewing proposal to create new body to manage billions in seized funds, assets
Under a bill put together by the Cabinet and currently under review in the House of Representatives, billions of pounds worth of money and assets confiscated by the state could soon be transferred to a new entity that judicial sources and lawmakers told Mada Masr would distance the funds from …
Egypt’s Sisi kicks off visit to India. What can we expect?
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has kicked off a three-day visit to India to shore up relations with a historic ally, as Cairo grapples with a severe economic crisis and looks east for financial relief.
Egypt: Sisi meets CIA Director to discuss stronger security cooperation
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met CIA Director William Burns in Cairo on Monday to discuss security cooperation between the two countries and ways to strengthen it.
Egypt’s poor, middle-income households forced ‘to go vegan’
As Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi blamed the media for reporting about the public’s inability to survive amid the current economic crisis and a rapidly devaluing Egyptian pound against the US dollar, low and middle-income households have found it almost impossible to meet their basic needs.
Is Egypt on the brink of another uprising?
The 25 January marks the 12-year anniversary of the Egyptian contribution to the Arab Spring, an 18-day national uprising that led to the ousting of 30-year dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt official calls for closure of prisoners of conscience file
President of Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), Ambassador Moushira Khattab has called for the need to intensify efforts to close the file of prisoners of conscience “once and for all.”