International News Burkina Faso Opposition Parties, African Union Reject Army Takeover Yomna Yasser Nov 2, 2014 0 Burkina Faso's opposition parties and the African Union rejected the army's seizure of power in the West African…
Egypt News With Mubarak’s Release, Egypt’s Military Caps Counter-Revolution – FT Yomna Yasser Aug 22, 2013 0 The seemingly imminent release of Hosni Mubarak, the emblematic toppled tyrant of the unfortunately titled Arab…
Egypt News Egyptian Govt Rejects McCain’s ‘Clumsy’ Statements on Morsi’s… Yomna Yasser Aug 7, 2013 0 An Egyptian presidential aide rejected statements by US Senator John McCain describing the popularly-backed…
Blogging Egypt: As Impoverished Crowds Gather in Support Of Morsi, Well-Heeled March Behind Their… Yomna Yasser Jul 28, 2013 0 Hundreds of thousands of people turned out outside Cairo’s Rabaa mosque yesterday to protest against the coup…
Blogging Egypt’s Sissi is not Moving toward Democracy Yomna Yasser Jul 26, 2013 0 Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, Egypt’s new deputy prime minister and de facto strongman, has called on Egyptians to…
Blogging Britain Is Betraying Its Values over the Egyptian Coup Yomna Yasser Jul 11, 2013 0 I want to be fair to Mr Hague. He is Britain’s cleverest and most hard-working foreign secretary since Robin Cook.…
Egypt News Egypt’s Crisis Was No Military Coup, Ambassador to U.S. Says Yomna Yasser Jul 7, 2013 0 Egypt’s ambassador to the U.S., Mohamed Tawfik, denied that the military’s ouster of President Mohamed Morsi…
Egypt News UN’s Pillay Concerned over Detention of Muslim Brotherhood Yomna Yasser Jul 5, 2013 0 UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Friday she was concerned by reports of the detention of leading members…
Egypt News Egypt Turmoil: Coup or No Coup? Yomna Yasser Jul 4, 2013 0 So when is a coup d'etat not a coup? Or to put it another way, is there such a thing as "a good coup", which means…