Egypt’s recent decision to require all Sudanese people entering the country to obtain a visa beforehand has put those escaping the ongoing war in Sudan in peril, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday.
Egypt is attempting to mediate between Sudan’s warring factions, hosting a regional summit on Thursday, the latest in a series of international efforts to prevent the outbreak of civil war and the deepening of a humanitarian crisis.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday discussed the Sudanese crisis, bilateral relations and Ethiopia’s giant dam on the Blue Nile, the Egyptian presidency said.
Egyptian parliamentarian Mostafa Bakri said that both Gamal Mubarak, son of late President Hosni Mubarak, and Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, head of the Reform and Development Party, cannot run for the Egyptian presidential elections scheduled for 2024.
As Egyptian-Turkish ties are about to be fully restored after a decade-long-rift, one question has emerged: what is the fate of Egyptian dissidents who have taken refuge in Turkey following the military coup that overthrew the first democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013?
The UAE reportedly paid a Swiss firm at least €5.7 million (£4.9 million) to smear individuals and organisations across Europe as being members or affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, according to a report by European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) network.
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