Latest in Tag: Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Highlight
Latest in Tag: Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
Al-Sisi meets SCAF after concluding Germany’s visit
Meeting followed Arish attack which resulted in 15 casualties
Armed forces’ chief of staff to testify in Morsi’s Qatar espionage case
Trial session was postponed as Morsi was unable to attend
Setting the stage: The 2012 Abbaseya clashes
Although the political dispute between the State and the Islamists intensified after the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, the May 2012 Abbaseya clashes count as the first main bloody confrontation between the countries’ two political entities. In defiance of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces’ (SCAF) delay to hand power …
Leak allegedly reveals government using media to shape public opinion
Officials purportedly pick media personnel to convince people that Al-Sisi is targeted
Morsi still defiant in first speech of espionage trial
Former president accuses SCAF of killing protestors in 2011 uprising
HRW urges UN to condemn Egypt’s human rights record
International rights group highlight Egypt’s human rights issues ahead of UN review
Searing saw: Sinai
By Amr Khalifa “Egypt is undergoing an existential battle.” That booming sound you heard was tantamount to a declaration of war by Egypt’s president Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi. “There will be blood…there will be a price to pay,” said Al-Sisi after a day of devastating attacks in Sinai on the Egyptian army that saw at least …
Trial of Al-Qaeda leader’s brother postponed
Mohamed Al-Zawahri, 67 others, accused of establishing a terrorist organisation
Al-Sisi electoral programme in the works: Moussa
Amr Moussa says a number of public figures and experts are working on developing Al-Sisi’s electoral platform
The responsibility of opposition
For months, from these pages and elsewhere, I have written a rather large number of articles criticising the conduct and performance of Egypt’s post-uprising political forces. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which resumed power after Hosni Mubarak, gave a good deal of material for me to work with. I knew at the …
‘Our blood is one’: Egypt set for week-long protests
Revolutionary and political groups announce a series of marches and protests to remember those killed during recent violence and the 25 January revolution