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(U.S. News & World Report) Due to the whirlwind of attention paid to the weather, North Korea, Iran and domestic American politics, an event erupted that received little attention. Last November, as a result of the Russian defense minister’s visit, the Egyptian government agreed to a five-year reciprocal arrangement to allow Russian military planes to use […]

(Al Jazeera English) Ongoing tensions in the Red Sea region came to the fore in late December, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Sudan as part of his Africa tour. During the visit, Erdogan and his Sudanese counterpart, Omar al-Bashir, signed more than a dozen agreements to boost the economic partnership between the two

Charity blames overspill of terrorism from Syria and Iraq after 128 Christians were killed last year (The Guardian) Christians in Egypt are facing unprecedented levels of persecution, with attacks on churches and the kidnap of girls by Islamist extremists intent on forcing them to marry Muslims, a report says. In the past year, Egypt has moved

(CNN) The number of civilians sentenced to death in Egypt’s military courts leapt from 60 in 2016 to at least 112 in 2017, according to two independent rights groups. Human rights advocates say the alarming numbers recorded by the Egyptian Coordination for Rights & Freedoms and the Initiative for Personal Rights are shocking — but the

(Middle East Monitor) Egyptian authorities executed five detainees on Tuesday despite the African Commission of Peoples and Human Rights (the African Commission) requesting Egypt suspend the sentences pending its investigation into their lawfulness. The African Commission is Africa’s highest Human Rights body and constituted by the African Charter. It is mandated to carry out tasks