US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday again pressed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to make concrete progress on economic reforms and rights, warning continued US and global aid was at stake. The Egyptians vowed that they had taken some … read more
The referral of amendments to the judicial authority law by the Shura Council to its Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee is a formality, Minister of Justice Ahmed Suleiman stated late on Saturday. Speaking to Al-Ahram Arabic news website, Suleiman further … read more
Almost three years after an uprising fuelled by the old regime’s venality, Egypt’s cash-strapped Islamist government is making amends with businessmen who offer to pay their way back into the fold. The presidency, strapped to a free falling economy, has … read more
Libyan authorities on Wednesday deported 238 Egyptian workers, including 28 fishermen, claiming that they had entered the country illegally. Elanani Hammouda, head of security in Egypt’s Marsa Matrouh governorate (adjacent to the Libyan border), said he had received a complaint … read more
Amnesty International has criticised what it describes as the continuity of torture in Egypt and a failure to punish those responsible for abuses. In its annual Egypt report, the human rights group that said torture policies, discrimination and impunity from … read more
Egyptian resentment toward US government policies may be justified – but this doesn’t make Egypt a dangerous place for Americans, Christopher Stone, the American scholar stabbed outside the US embassy in Cairo earlier this month, told Ahram Online. His attacker, … read more
Assiut Criminal Court has sentenced five to death and another to 10 years prison for killing a priest and stealing his money and golden jewelry. The five were accused of intentionally killing the priest in his home using a knives … read more
Anti-Morsi petition gathers steam: Organisers “‘Do you like Morsi?’ said the kiosk owner, to my surprise. I said no, so he handed me a ‘Rebel’ campaign form before taking note of what I needed to buy.” The person telling this … read more
Egyptian troops and police mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral in the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, security officials said, in the opening salvo of a sweep searching for security personnel kidnapped by suspected militants. The incident illustrated the hazards of … read more
Seven Egyptian security personnel, who were released by kidnappers in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday morning, have landed at Al-Maza military airport in Cairo. President Mohamed Morsi, Defence Minister Abdel-Fatah El-Sisi and Chief of Staff Sedky Sobhy were at the … read more