First Independent Mena Newspaper
Incumbent President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected for another four-year term in an election deserted by main opposition parties. Official MENA news agency and other state media, namely Ahram and Akhbar el-Youm, have announced al-Sisi winner of the three-day presidential poll which ended Wednesday. Al-Sisi is credited with 92 per cent of the votes […]
President Fattah al-Sisi Wednesday openly warned the opposition and vowed to deal with actions that may confront his rule as the country’s opposition figures call for boycott of coming March elections that Sisi is certain to win. “Be warned. What happened seven or eight years ago, will not happen again in Egypt,” Sissi said, a […]
US Senator John McCain has harshly criticized Egypt’s President Fattah al-Sisi and his regime for suffocating the dreams of millions of Egyptians following the January 2011 revolution with arrests of thousands of human rights activists alongside threats to political opponents. “Seven years ago this week, the Egyptian people inspired the world with their nonviolent revolution […]
The Egyptian parliament Sunday convened for a two-day session to review the controversial 2016 agreement regarding the handing over of the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia, despite a ruling in January by the High Administrative Court that said the agreement is unconstitutional and void. The ruling upheld the verdict of a lower […]
Speaking at a youth forum on leadership, President Sisi informed Egyptians that the government will be introducing austerity measures when it finalizes a $12billion three-year loan agreement, probably before the end of the month, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). For the president, “the problem is whether the public opinion is prepared to accept the […]
President Sisi has promised a reform to speed up judiciary procedures as part of a crackdown on extremists and terrorists. During the funeral ceremony of Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat killed in a terror attack, President Sisi said “swift justice” will be introduced in order to free the judiciary’s hand for a“battle” the country is prepared to wage despite criticism […]
Egypt’s top prosecutor Hisham Barakat has succumbed to his injuries at the Al-Nozha hospital in Heliopolis after his convoy was targeted in a roadside car bomb attack claimed by the Giza Popular Resistance on its Facebook page. Shortly after the attack, President Sisi met with Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar. He called for tighter security measures and stressed […]
President Sisi has called on the Egyptians to be united against those who want to destabilize the country during a weekly Ramadan event dubbed the ‘Egyptian Family Iftar.’ The event is attended by members of the civil society from different walks of life together with tribes’ representatives. Bombings and armed attacks have become a daily […]
The Egyptian government has received a big boost after it sold $1.5 billion of 10-year bonds at a yield of 6% with lead managers claiming that $4.5 billion of investor orders were attracted by the bond issuance. The success of this first international bond issuance under Sisi’s government shows signs of a return to normality […]
A joint press conference between the foreign ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia in Cairo was used to refute reports that the two countries disagree on the policies to adopt with regards to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Saudi is a strong supporter of the rebels fighting against the Assad regime while Egypt wants Assad to […]