Egypt’s public business sector workforce fell 30% in eight years, from 827,000 in 2017 to 586,000 in 2025, amid a near-total hiring freeze, company liquidations, and mass dismissals under the drug-testing law
Between 2021 and 2025, Egypt expropriated 88,769 feddans across 525 projects affecting 546,000 citizens, under a law that leaves public interest undefined, unchallengeable, and compensation calculated at outdated prices.
For a Railway Project Requested by Kamel El-Wazir: Expropriation of 87 Feddans in Sinai Puts Al-Maqata’a and Al-Kharafin Residents Facing a Third Eviction
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.
