Sadio Mane’s Senegal are aiming to retain their title and Mohamed Salah is chasing a first trophy with Egypt at this year’s Africa Cup of Nations, which begins in Ivory Coast on January 13. A strong field also features 2022 World Cup semi-finalists Morocco and a Nigeria team spearheaded by African footballer of the year […]
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As Ethiopia continues to receive applause from the rest of the countries in Africa, for singlehandedly (without foreign funding) together with its people, constructing a $5-billion mega-power plant, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Egypt is doubling on efforts to fail it. The dam, whose construction is now 90% complete, when fully done, will produce […]
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Egypt: Detained Academic at Risk of Death
Beirut — Salah Soltan Should be Immediately Released, Offered Treatment The Egyptian authorities should immediately release Salah Soltan, the arbitrarily detained father of a prominent US human rights defender, 51 human rights organizations said today. The authorities should ensure his immediate and urgent access to life-saving health care and conduct effective and transparent investigations into […]
Cancelling Kevin Hart’s show last February exposed a virulent racism lurking beneath the revival of a popular movement long considered pagan. “You are our slaves and captives” “You are not welcome to Egypt” “Stop blackwashing our history” These are a few examples of the flagrantly racist posts that took Twitter by storm last February in […]
State Information Service (SIS) issued its first report on its monitoring of what foreign media publishes about the presidential elections. Diaa Rashwan, Chairman of the State Information Service (SIS), stated that the SIS’s operations room followed up what was published by hundreds of media outlets in more than (10) international languages, and also followed up […]