Mohannad Sabry is an Egyptian journalist and author who lived in Cairo until 2015. He currently lives in London where he pursues research on Egyptian political, security, and military affairs, and where he is studying in King’s College London’s Defense Studies Department.

Egyptian Finance Minister Mohamed Maait has told Bloomberg said that his country will not get a new loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) until after one or two months. The current alternative for Egypt is to resort to countries such as China and Japan to get a “soft loan”.

For the first time since coming to power in 2014, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi traveled to Doha earlier this month on an official visit, a capstone in a steadily building rapprochement between the two countries in the last year.

Islam Ahmad Khamis is a young Egyptian in his thirties. For seven years, his mother waited for him to return home after he was arrested one day in the winter of 2015 and was subjected to enforced disappearance — extrajudicial detention — on four occasions by the authorities. After disappearing …

The UK’s Shadow Foreign Secretary has proposed that British citizens abroad receive a statutory right to Foreign Office consular assistance, reports The Guardian.

Egypt was the top importer of arms from France between 2012 and 2021, after its order of 30 Rafale fighter jets, according to an annual report by the French parliament published on Tuesday.

Detainees that have been transferred to the new Badr prison complex in Egypt have complained about the conditions there, reports Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.

Egypt and Jordan warned Israel on Tuesday against escalating tensions at Jerusalem’s holiest site, accusing Israel of allowing “abuse” by Jewish visitors.

After security forces raided the premises of publishing house Dar El Maraya and took its director, Yehia Fekry, into custody overnight, Fekry was released on Monday, the publisher said in a statement.

Twelve human rights organisations have signed a petition calling on Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release detainees held for peacefully exercising their human rights ahead of COP27.