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Sunday, 29 January 2017

Other random bits of coverage in the international news

Also in the international news:

  • Human Rights Watch is unhappy that a criminal court put 1,500 Egyptians on a terrorist list for alleged support of the Ikhwan. It says the move imposes “penalties on people without giving them a chance to defend themselves seriously violates their rights to due process.”
  • Declassified CIA documents “confirm” Egypt aided Algeria against Morocco in the 1963 Sand War, Ezzoubeir Jabrane writes for Morocco World News.
  • Egypt and Morocco are seeing a return in startup investment, Lily Kuo writes for Quartz. “There’s been a trend towards investment returning to Egypt and other North African countries having been scared off by years of political turmoil,” Kuo adds.
  • H.A Hellyer attempts to write about the 25th January uprising and how the West should learn from its mistakes, or something of sorts, we don’t know, we fell asleep by the third paragraph.
  • The BBC World Service correspondent Ed Butler presents two reports on economic hardships and social instability in Egypt’s Currency Crisis, and the over 30% youth unemployment rate in Egypt’s Jobless Youth.

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