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Public protests have legally been banned in Egypt without a prior security permit, since the military under the then-defence minister Sisi seized power in 2013.
IMF's Kristalina Georgieva’s visit to Egypt will precede another by a delegation from the institution expected to review the country's economic reform progress.
UAE's bin Zayed pardoned three prominent Egyptian football figures after they had been sentenced to jail over assaulting a local security guard during a match.
Conflicting geopolitical interests have recently seen tensions soar in the Horn of Africa, with Somalia and Ethiopia's ties at their lowest point in many years.
Despite a technical state of peace with Israel since the late 1970s, Egyptians have mostly been at loggerheads with their successive regimes over normalisation.
The fate of the detained protesters remains uncertain with no official statements released yet about their whereabouts or possible charges facing them.
Rights groups argue that if passed, the new draft of the Criminal Procedures Code would further entrench injustice in Egypt's already flawed legal system.
