Egypt

Egypt

Population: 82 mn.
GDP: 255 bn.
Debt: 34.8 bn.
Overview:

Clashes between President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brothers and political secularists will continue. Delayed legislative elections will be another flashpoint. Mursi's failings on the economy could prove the most dangerous to him since his ministers are supposed to impose cuts on state subsidies and salaries in exchange for vital International Monetary Fund financing.

 

 

Egypt Country Report



news from Egypt

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  • Vol 46 No 16
  •  5th August 2005

Half a cheer for democracy

Promises of reform mix uneasily with baton charges on opposition parties

  • Vol 46 No 15
  •  22nd July 2005

Enlightenment

Recent threats to Egyptian and Tunisian writers reflect a growing confrontation between Islamists and other Muslims. Egyptian philosopher Sa'id Mahmoud el Gomeni has said he'll give up writing about Islamic religion and history because of death threats. S...

  • Vol 46 No 9
  •  29th April 2005

Banking bust-up

Egypt wants its own man to run an all-Africa bank everyone else is angry

  • Vol 46 No 4
  •  18th February 2005

Authoritarian instincts

The government finds political dialogue easier when its critics are locked up

  • Vol 45 No 22
  •  5th November 2004

Economic trumps

The government focuses on economics and shows no desire to challenge the ruling family

  • Vol 45 No 22
  •  5th November 2004

A government of economics and security

This is an analysis of who is who in Egypt's new goverment, including Prime Minister Ahmed Nazeef, Finance Minister Youssef Boutros Ghali and Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieddin.

  • Vol 43 No 16
  •  9th August 2002

No go NGO

As Egypt's government celebrated the 50th anniversary of the coup that toppled King Farouk and brought Gamal Abdel Nasser to power, a state security court handed seven years in gaol to an Egyptian/American civil society activist, Saadeddin Ibrahim. The s...

  • Vol 42 No 20
  •  12th October 2001

Islamism begins at home

Egypt's war against terrorism is not quite the same as America's

  • Vol 42 No 11
  •  1st June 2001

Authoritarian urge

It is inconceivable that the seven-year gaol sentence passed by a High State Security Court on 21 May against Saadeddin Ibrahim, a sociologist at the American University in Cairo, plus gaol sentences against six colleagues, was not blessed by President Ho...

  • Vol 42 No 2
  •  26th January 2001

Pharaoh speaks

Cairo is trying to coopt Western governments, Algeria and Saudi Arabia into a scheme to present President George W. Bush's new team with a detailed ready-made policy for dialogue with Sudan's National Islamic Front, Africa Confidential has learned. A seco...

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