News & Reports

By MadaMasr – Three bills that would further consolidate the powers granted to the president and the military and make the latter even more impervious to criticism were approved by [...]

By POMED – Egyptian media reported that parliament will soon debate a bill amending a number of security-related laws, which would further blunt the impact of the end of the [...]

By Hany Ghoraba – IPT News – Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has bragged for decades about the unity of its members and its ability to withstand all external pressures. But the [...]

By POMED- President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made a surprise announcement on October 25 that he was ending Egypt’s state of emergency, which had been in effect since the April 2017 church [...]

By POMED – On October 25, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced that he was ending the country’s state of emergency, which had been in place since April 2017. The 2014 [...]

By France24/AFP – Four Egyptian security officers will go on trial in absentia in Italy on Thursday for the brutal killing in Cairo five years ago of Italian student Giulio Regeni. The [...]

By POMED – On October 7, Department of State Spokesperson Ned Price revealed that Yael Lempert, the acting assistant secretary for the department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, met with [...]

By Siobhán O’Grady – The Washington Post – CAIRO — For years, Western governments and human rights groups have urged Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi to ease his [...]

By Mohamed Mandour – Rowaq Arabi The revolution of 25 January 2011 gave most religious minorities in Egypt a genuine opportunity to step into the public sphere, openly practice their [...]

By: NCR- A Catholic priest has described last Sunday’s attacks on villages in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna State as a “massacre” against native people, many of whom are Christian. An estimated 49 [...]