In its Human Development Report (HDR) for Egypt in 2021, issued last week, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reviews what can objectively be described as a "success story" of which the Egyptian people can reasonably be proud.
In barely (...)
Twenty years after the horrific terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the world is certainly a far more dangerous and chaotic place. It is a major historical irony that while marking this extremely sad anniversary, the US and the world are not (...)
This week President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi took part in the Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership. Egypt, he demonstrated, is keen on an Iraq capable of playing an active and balanced role at the regional level, and to this end hopes to (...)
Scenes of thousands of Afghanis crowding the Kabul Airport, sometimes crushed to death while trying to flee the country, are harrowing enough. But they might not be the worst to come out of this country, war-torn for over four decades now, following (...)
may present us with a forecasting dilemma, but all prognoses must share at least one conclusion: Afghanistan has plunged into another black hole under the Taliban Spring. Developments in recent days, which brought the Taliban into Kabul, have (...)
Recent indications of the continued failure by Tehran and Washington to reach an agreement on how to revive the 2015 nuclear deal about. There is Iran's alleged attack on an oil tanker belonging to an Israeli company off the coast of Oman, the (...)
Cairo welcomed Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra this week, a visit that demonstrated the strong, decades-old ties between the two countries. The late leader president Gamal Abdel-Nasser supported Algeria's long, just war for independence (...)
Negotiations are in progress in New York over a proposed Security Council resolution calling on all parties in the dispute over Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) to return to the negotiating table. The goal would be to hammer out a binding (...)
Ethiopia's unilateral decision to start the second phase of filling the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a serious challenge not only to Egypt and Sudan, but also to the United Nations Security Council – due to meet to discuss the threat GERD (...)
Yesterday was the eighth anniversary of the 30 June, 2013 Revolution, which opened a newchapter in the country's history on many levels.
It confirmed the commitment of the vast majority of Egyptians to maintaining a modern, civil statewhere all (...)
Ahead of the Second Berlin Conference on Libya, which opened yesterday (23 June), Cairo intensified contacts with key Libyan parties to help ensure a successful outcome. In many ways Libyan national security is part of Egyptian national security, (...)
The Tuesday meeting of Arab foreign ministers to affirm solidarity with Egypt and Sudan in their dispute with Ethiopia over the dangerous effects of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was an important first step in intensive efforts by the (...)
As Egypt markes the seventh anniversary of President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi's rise to power on 8 June 2014, and the eighth anniversary of the 30 June 2013 Revolution against Muslim Brotherhood rule, Egyptians must feel proud of their many achievements (...)
Despite Egypt's good intentions towards Ethiopia and its commitment to diplomacy to solve the grave disputes surrounding the dangerous effects of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on its scarce water resources, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy (...)
There is a growing recognition that the ceasefire brokered by Egypt between Hamas and Tel Aviv – and backed by the United States, Europe and the international community – should be the trigger to resume the long stalled peace talks between the (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened that the military operation he happily launched in Gaza would "take time". But diplomatic efforts led by Egypt and other key regional powers – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar (...)
Unlike many policies that US President Joe Biden has reversed after taking office on 20 January, he has decided to keep one major pledge made by his predecessor, Donald Trump: to pull completely out of Afghanistan.
Indeed, there was a relatively (...)
Washington's announcement of the appointment of Ambassador Jeff Feltman as US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa could be a positive sign. Perhaps the new Democratic administration is planning to play a more active role in this volatile and (...)
In the early 1970s, Henry Kissinger's theory of geopolitical balance between Beijing and Washington managed to spare the world a third world war. The veteran US diplomat was later one of the engineers of the peace accord between Egypt and (...)
Developments in the crisis over Ethiopia's construction of a dam on the Blue Nile and the potential existential threats to Sudan and Egypt that poses are crucial. They present the international community with a chance to demonstrate its ability to (...)
As the African Union-sponsored negotiations on Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam convened in Kinshasa, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke of war on "eight fronts." Most of those fronts are internal. The most serious is in the Tigray region where (...)
The experts and technicians at the Suez Canal Authority have worked a miracle. They freed the Ever Given, the mammoth containership that kept the world on edge for six days after it ran aground. The blockage created queues hundreds of ships long at (...)
Ethiopia is deliberately pushing Egypt and Sudan to the brink with its announcement that it will begin the second stage of filling the Renaissance dam reservoir in two months. Its haughty dismissal of Sudan's proposal that an international quartet (...)
The statement by 31 nations on the situation of human and civil rights in Egypt, read out by Finland at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) last Friday, has sparked an outcry. This is against the image that Western governments have of (...)
Ethiopia is still at odds with Egypt and Sudan over a binding agreement on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). At the heart of the disagreement is the need for Addis Ababa not to start the second stage of filling (...)