Republican Guard forces Tuesday night used cement blocks to close the streets leading to the Ettehadiya Presidential Palace, to secure the area ahead of protests on 30 June planned by various opposition groups against the rule of Muslim Brotherhood President … read more
Sterling has recovered slightly against the USD after last week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes caused GBP/USD to fall from 1.5670 Wednesday evening to 1.5345 yesterday morning. This was a move of over 2% and put GBP/USD back to … read more
On Tuesday evening, five members of the Tamarod (‘Rebel’) petition campaign to withdraw confidence from President Mohamed Morsi received a warm reception from passengers on the platform of a downtown Cairo metro station. Members of the campaign, each holding petition … read more
Long lines of fuel-hungry motorists have once more paralysed traffic in Egypt as yet another wave of fuel shortages hits the country. Though the lines have been a recurring feature of Egypt’s post-revolutionary landscape, the latest shortages have caused particular … read more
Egyptian state television employees are gathering votes calling for the dismissal of presidential media representative Ahmed Abdel-Aziz after accusing him of “interfering with editorial policy,” Amer El-Wakil, news editor at the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (Maspero), said according to … read more
The military began securing Cairo’s Media Production City (MPC) on Tuesday ahead of expected mass protests on 30 June, a military official told Egyptian state news agency MENA. The MPC, located in 6 October City, a satellite city on the … read more
The anti-government Rebel campaign is due to hold a press conference Tuesday afternoon to announce planned steps to legally validate the petitions it has gathered in support of a no-confidence vote in President Mohamed Morsi The campaign said last week … read more
A court has sentenced a Salafi preacher for defaming actress Elham Shahin, after he was found to have forged naked photographs of her. Abdallah Badr, Salafi presenter on the Al-Hafez satellite channel, received a five-year suspended sentence, as well as … read more
As the US struggles to cope with the civil wars in Syria, Libya, the Sudan and Iraq, it must also ponder the prospect of a civil war in Egypt. Egypt has been in a state of chaos since the Arab … read more
The Mubarak regime that ruled Egypt, and looted its economy, for three decades is history. But the military that supported the regime is still very much in charge, has rolled back many of its promises, and sharply limited the scope … read more