President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi allocated EGP 500m from the Tahya Masr Fund to support the integration of children with disabilities into mainstream schools.

As Brazil’s politicians seem ever more corrupt and incapable of governing, the military is again encroaching on the political system which it totally dominated from 1964 to 1985.

The Egyptian parliament approved July 3 a draft law offering special treatment to senior commanders of the armed forces.

Egypt’s new defence minister is the man who personally arrested the country’s former president Mohamed Morsi during the 2013 coup that brought Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to power, a former Morsi official has told Middle East Eye.

Egypt appointed a new government on Thursday, replacing several key ministers as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pushes ahead with tough economic reforms and security-tightening measures.

As concerns over a possible cabinet reshuffle are overflowing, Egypt’s three powerful and executive ministries, the Defence Ministry, Interior Ministry, and Foreign Ministry, are not worried.

The Russian capital Moscow will host on Monday the fourth round of the “two-plus-two” strategic consultations agreement between Egypt and Russia. The consultations will be between the ministers of foreign affairs and defence of both countries.

The coming meeting of the strategic “2+2” consultations between Egypt and Russia, which include their ministers of foreign affairs and defence, will be held in Moscow on 14 May, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al Sisi signed off on Tuesday a legislation to establish the Supreme Council to Combat Terrorism and Extremism to act as an independent body with all technical, financial and administrative powers, state news agency MENA reported.

Nidal al-Said, chairman of parliament’s Communications and Information Technology Committee, announced on April 16 that the committee approved a 45-article draft law submitted by the government to combat cybercrime. He told the press that the committee is now working on preparing a report on the bill to submit to parliamentary speaker Ali Abdel Aal for …