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Egypt: Will The Army Step In?

March 14, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Osama Al Sharif, By Arab News Egypt is getting out of control: The police are on strike in a number of cities, the civil disobedience in Port Said is in its fourth week, hooligans are attacking and ransacking public … read more »

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The president calls early elections and the opposition responds with a boycott

March 2, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

EGYPTIANS have reason to fear the domestic news these days. If it is not about events such as a freak ballooning accident that killed 18 tourists, or the death of nine villagers who fell, one after another, into an open … read more »

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Egypt heads towards referendum despite division

December 13, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

A controversial referendum on a new constitution in Egypt due to start on Saturday looks set to further split the country, after the opposition called for a ‘no’ vote and imposed conditions that could yet result in its boycott. Egypt’s … read more »

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