Thirteen years after the “Tamarod” (Rebel) campaign, signed by more than 22 million Egyptians, external debt has risen from $43 billion to $164 billion, and the pound has fallen from 7 to roughly 50 to the dollar — even as the security indicator has improved relatively amid continued restrictions on public freedoms.
Detentions over opinion, 1,700 constitutional challenges to the rent law, deaths in the detention of Sudanese refugees
Owners of nearly 200 units at a North Coast resort filed reports and complaints with the Public Prosecution and the Cabinet over a stone-groyne project that allegedly violated technical specifications, after the beach lost approximately 21,600 cubic meters of sand and the sea advanced toward residential units, while the case remains before the courts without a final ruling.
Since 2016, more than two million citizens in Khosous, Qalyubiya have complained of dark-colored, foul-smelling drinking water. A water expert warns that leaks in sewage networks are turning pumps into sewage pumps and threatening the spread of cholera, while officials deny receiving any complaints.
Ahmed Tantawi recounts the details of the Hope Alliance of 2019 for the first time: how the idea was born, who obstructed it from within, and what happened the night his colleagues were arrested. A frank conversation about the failures of the Egyptian opposition, and about the question the Civil Democratic Movement has yet to answer.
Citizens who paid electricity theft fines and completed judicial reconciliation still find their ration cards suspended, under an electronic system managed not by the Ministry of Supply but by the Ministry of Military Production, amid millions of complaints following the filing of 3.4 million electricity violation reports, and a complaints window opened on 14 June with no answer to the fundamental question: who has the authority to correct the data?
