The Turkish government lifted a veto against Egypt’s partnership activities with Nato last year as part of attempts to repair ties with Cairo, two people familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye.

In March 2015, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi told an international investment conference that Egypt needed $200-300bn to “develop”. At the time, it seemed to be extreme hyperbole, considering that the size of the Egyptian economy in 2015 was $332bn.

The Egyptian government called on INTERPOL and the Italian authorities to hand over Italian diplomats on charges of smuggling thousands of Egyptian artifacts to Italy, in a case dating back to the years between 2016 and 2018. In addition,Italy has demanded the extradition of the killers of researcher Giulio Regeni.

The World Bank was urged by Human Rights Watch on Wednesday to support medical workers who have been arrested for criticising Egypt’s Covid-19 response, as the bank prepares to give Cairo millions of dollars to combat the pandemic.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should demand the Egyptian government disclose financial information about military-owned businesses as part of required reporting on state-owned enterprises, before releasing the next tranche of funding under an ongoing loan program, Human Rights Watch, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, and the Freedom Initiative said …

President Sisi’s regime follows a consistent policy of entrenching itself in the global financial system to align its own stability with the economic interests of international organizations, Western states, and private companies.

The number of coronavirus infections in Egypt is expected to rise until the end of the winter season, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned yesterday.

Kuwait has handed over to Egyptian authorities at least three Egyptians resident in the country, after detaining them, the local Al-Qabas newspaper reported on Sunday.

Three Egyptians arrested by Lebanese forces in August in relation to the gang rape of a young woman at the Fairmont Nile City hotel in Cairo in 2014 have been extradited by Interpol to Egypt and arrived at Cairo International Airport on Thursday morning.

Over the past few weeks, Egypt’s foreign debt reached record numbers, after obtaining loans worth about $7.9 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under two different agreements, in addition to selling $5 billion worth of Egyptian bonds abroad.