Its $12bn extended fund facility signed in 2016 marked a belated attempt to get to grips with the economic fall-out from five years of political turbulence after the uprising against the late president Hosni Mubarak (AC Vol 57 No 22 Taking a pounding)...
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Vol 63 No 6 |
- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
Their predecessors Hosni Mubarak and Omer Ahmed Hassan el Beshir were toppled in rebellions triggered by rocketing bread prices...
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Vol 62 No 22 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Most dramatically in the MB's Egyptian birthplace Mohammed Morsi left the clandestine world to be elected president after the street deposed President Hosni Mubarak...
Although US President-elect Joseph Biden will assume a more diplomatic stance he has worked closely with Egypt's military over the last two decades including with Sisi's predecessor Hosni Mubarak...
Local councils elected in 2008 were dissolved in June 2011 in the aftermath of the uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak...
Sisi wants to prevent comparisons being drawn with the final years of Hosni Mubarak's rule when the 'family-business' model of government saw Mubarak's sons Gamal and Alaa operate a shadow cabinet and influence procurement and contracts...
The attempt by the Hosni Mubarak-era Chief of Staff Sami Anan to run against Sisi in the March elections (before his prompt arrest) may have spooked the President...
The combination of the economic crisis the Red Sea islands deal the release from prison of former president Hosni Mubarak and his family and a seemingly unrelenting stream of militant attacks in both the Sinai peninsula and mainland Egypt should have given government critics more ammunition than they could fire but the security services have so far succeeded in damping down any serious expressions of unrest...
• June 1995: Attempted murder of then Egyptian President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak in Ethiopia: he immediately blames 'Hassan'; United Nations and Organisation of African Unity sanctions on Sudan follow (AC Vo 36 No 14 Calling the shots after Addis Ababa)...
At least 83 former members of ex-President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak's ruling single party the National Democratic Party (NDP) were elected...