The writer and activist Nanjala Nyabola argues there is a strong core of leadership within the movement which can be likened to those who convened the Tahrir Square protests that led to the toppling of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011 (AC Vol 52 No 3 Mubarak stumbles to the exit)...
The first in 2016 could be presented as a necessary response to the legacy of the 2011 fall of the Hosni Mubarak regime and the mismanagement of the one-year rule of the Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Mursi whom Sisi removed from office in 2013...
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Vol 63 No 23 |
- EGYPT
- COP27
But activists doubt the seriousness of any pronouncements on liberalisation arguing the government fears that the parlous economy spiralling prices for food and fuel could spark mass protests of the level that unseated President Hosni Mubarak in 2011...
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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 Mubarak and Alaa Mubarak 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...