The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should demand the Egyptian government disclose financial information about military-owned businesses as part of required reporting on state-owned enterprises, before releasing the next tranche of funding under an ongoing loan program, Human Rights Watch, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, and the Freedom Initiative said …

President Sisi’s regime follows a consistent policy of entrenching itself in the global financial system to align its own stability with the economic interests of international organizations, Western states, and private companies.

An Egyptian man set himself on fire in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Thursday to protest corruption and deteriorating living conditions in the North African country.

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced Wednesday that all government offices in Cairo will be vacated upon relocation to the New Administrative Capital.

The Central Bank of Egypt has removed the names of seven people from lists of people whose funds are frozen in the case known in the media as “manipulating the stock exchange.”

The Carnegie report “Owners of the Republic: An Anatomy of Egypt’s Military Economy” details how the involvement of the Egyptian Armed Forces in the economy has undergone a transformation in scope and scale under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, giving rise to a new version of Egyptian state capitalism.

The historical pattern of Egypt’s development model puts the military at the center as economic savior. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi did not invent the military’s fixation on controlling the economy for political ends, but after decades of military involvement in the economy, Egypt continues to slide lower on all …

Egypt’s growing population has reached over 101 million, an increase of more than 7 million since the last census in 2017, presenting a compelling problem for a country with limited resources.

Over 40 percent of the 200 million young people in the Middle East and North Africa have considered or are actively considering emigrating to another country, according to this year’s Arab Youth Survey.

The Egyptian government has begun taking measures to monitor the commercial activity of Syrians in Egypt out of fear that some businesses are being used to fund the Muslim Brotherhood. The measures include not approving any commercial activity for Syrian nationals except with permission from the security authorities, as well as monitoring Syrian account …