India and Egypt will seek to deepen military cooperation, including between their defence industries, India’s foreign secretary said on Wednesday.
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Parliament reviewing proposal to create new body to manage billions in seized funds, assets
Under a bill put together by the Cabinet and currently under review in the House of Representatives, billions of pounds worth of money and assets confiscated by the state could soon be transferred to a new entity that judicial sources and lawmakers told Mada Masr would distance the funds from …
Egypt: Sisi meets CIA Director to discuss stronger security cooperation
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met CIA Director William Burns in Cairo on Monday to discuss security cooperation between the two countries and ways to strengthen it.
Egypt’s poor, middle-income households forced ‘to go vegan’
As Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi blamed the media for reporting about the public’s inability to survive amid the current economic crisis and a rapidly devaluing Egyptian pound against the US dollar, low and middle-income households have found it almost impossible to meet their basic needs.
Egypt official calls for closure of prisoners of conscience file
President of Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), Ambassador Moushira Khattab has called for the need to intensify efforts to close the file of prisoners of conscience “once and for all.”
Egypt lawyers end strike after colleagues released over court altercation
Egypt’s Lawyers Syndicate has suspended an indefinite strike after six lawyers sentenced to prison over an alleged court brawl were released on appeal on Sunday.
Italy and Egypt meeting to discuss Libya’s political stability and ‘irregular migration’
Italy’s chief diplomat held talks on Sunday with Egyptian and Arab League officials in Cairo that focused on regional security and the conflict in neighbouring Libya, as well as sensitive bilateral issues.
Owner of Egypt dairy giant and son released from prison
The founder and former CEO of Egypt’s Juhayna Food Industries and his son have been released from prison yesterday, after spending about two years in detention, according to Reuters citing security and prison sources, as well as a family member.
Egyptian citizens can no longer contest sale of state assets
At the time when the government of President Abdel-Fattah Al Sisi’s government has been selling Egypt’s assets to Gulf countries in a bid to survive amid the economic crisis, the country’s supreme court ruled that citizens cannot legally challenge any deals made between the state and any other entity.
Egypt green-lights sweeping privatization strategy following IMF agreement
After more than half a year in the making, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi finally approved at the end of December a strategic program drawn up by the government that sets out the economic sectors from which the state plans to withdraw in the coming years, and those in which …