Human Rights Watch has called on European leaders to address the human rights crisis under Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s rule ahead of a summit between the European Union and the African Union this week.

After years of behind-the-scenes activity in the Gaza Strip, Egypt is going public.

Germany’s top diplomat on Saturday said that human rights criteria will be at the centre of her new government’s international arms sales, including to Egypt, a major importer of German weapons.

A group of civil society and human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have jointly signed a statement calling on the European Union to withdraw its bid to co-chair the Global Counterterrorism Task Force (GCTF) with Egypt.

Negotiations must return quickly, because the coming days may witness the operation of one or two turbines in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which will be followed by a third filling, Professor of Water Resources, Abbas Sharaky said during a telephone interview with the journalist Ahmed Moussa, on the “On …

US Senator Rand Paul has introduced a resolution to the US Senate in a bid to cancel Washington’s latest weapons sale to Egypt, criticising President Joe Biden’s administration for continuing to reward Cairo with security assistance even as it has “converted a country into a prison”.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received a phone call on Wednesday afternoon from Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

A top US general emphasised “very robust” military assistance to Egypt as he flew into Cairo on Wednesday in the wake of a decision by President Joe Biden administration’s to cut $130 million in military aid to the country over human rights concerns.

Egypt and South Korea announced in early February a $1.66 billion deal to sell K9 self-propelled howitzers to the Egyptian armed forces and to locally manufacture them in the Egyptian military factories.

A correspondent for Greece’s state news agency AMNA was found dead in Cairo, the Greek Foreign Ministry said on Sunda Feb. 6, 2022.