Population growth is a “national security issue,” President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a public address on Tuesday.

Opposition forces and personalities in Egypt have announced the formation of a unified political front abroad that aims to achieve peaceful political change in the country, after six months of dialogue and negotiations between opposition movements and figures based outside Egypt, reported Arabi21.

Nine senior members of the Wafd Party were summarily dismissed from the party on Tuesday, ridding the liberal party of a faction that has increasingly challenged the leadership of the party’s chair and grown critical of the majority-holding Nation’s Future Party in the newly elected House of Representatives.

After decades of political paralysis, economic discontent, and increasing repression, Mubarak’s 30-year rule ended swiftly in an 18-day popular uprising in 2011. Judging by the violence Sisi’s regime has unleashed on Egyptians in the past few years, it seems that his biggest fear is that the crowds will fill the …

During the course of the brief — just one year — Egyptian government led by President Mohamed Morsi, the opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood accused the movement of failure. Demands were made for it to admit its mistakes, conduct reviews, apologise and then disappear from the political scene altogether.

The Egyptian military and its top brass reigned supreme over Egypt in the months after their historic decision to force longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down on February 11, 2011.

Today marks 10 years since the start of Egypt’s January 25 revolution.

25 January 2011 marked the start of Hosni Mubarak’s fall but also moves by the military to take over.

Ten years ago, she was celebrated as a heroine for helping to spark the 2011 uprising that unseated then-President Hosni Mubarak. But Asmaa Mahfouz, a political activist and one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement (credited with mobilizing the mass protests that ousted Mubarak), is today struggling …

One of the oddly difficult truths to grasp about the Arab uprisings is that they did not have to be the failure they appeared to be.