by MRN | May 30, 2014 | Middle East
NINETY-THREE PER CENT! Let me write that again: 93 per cent! Or 93.3 per cent if you want to be precise. This superb, stunning, incredible – quite literally, one might say – achievement in Egypt’s presidential election, places ex-Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on...
by MRN | Mar 9, 2014 | Press Releases
According to media reports which appeared in the Egyptian newspapers, a delegation of South African government officials, headed by Minister of State Security Siyabonga Cwele visited Egypt for bilateral talks. The reports maintain that Minister Cwele met military coup...
by MRN | Feb 6, 2014 | World
Last month, US President Barack Obama gave his annual State of the Union address. The speech is the president’s opportunity to assess the condition of the country, as well as set out his legislative agenda and his national and international priorities. This...
by MRN | Nov 19, 2013 | World
“The Middle East is a crucible for what is going on” in the world. Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Palestine. These are among some of the territories that hegemonic world powers have been trying to construct as spaces of exception, where...
by MRN | Nov 13, 2013 | Africa
When Egypt’s Defense Minister, General Abdelfattah El-Sisi, deposed President Muhammad Morsi in a military coup depicted as a popular revolt, on July 3, coup leaders were confident that Morsi and his supporters, led by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), would quickly...
