President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi blamed the Renaissance Dam crisis with Ethiopia on the 2011 uprising, which unseated Hosni Mubarak after 30 years of autocratic rule.

Eight years after the eruption of Egypt’s historic January 25 revolution, Egyptians are back on the streets protesting. But over the last eight years a lot has changed, and a lot hasn’t.

Secular parties are considering freezing their political activities as a result of the recent campaign of arrests against people who oppose or have differences with the government.

For the second week in a row, demonstrations against Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi were held in the cities of Qena, Luxor, Sohag and al-Warkh near Giza governorate.

Two Egyptian lawyers known for their ties to the authorities have filed complaints to the Prosecutor-General against former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi and the outspoken Member of Parliament Ahmed Tantawi, alleging that they incited protests.

Egypt’s head of military intelligence has banned intelligence offers from leaving the country as rumours circulate that there may be an internal revolt against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, sources have said.

The Middle East region will continue to suffer from instability in the presence of political Islam movements that seek power, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said.

Chaotic protests across Egypt this weekend — prompted by videos exposing corruption in President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s military-backed government — underscore the population’s weariness with economic hardship due in part to government austerity measures.

Hashtags opposed to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt have gone viral on Twitter in the past couple of days, following the release of videos by Egyptian contractor Mohammed Aly accusing the president, who came to power after a 2013 military coup, of corruption.

Egyptian members of parliament have called for officials from ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s regime to get back into politics in the light of the continuous failure of the current regime led by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Arabi21 reported yesterday.