Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

An Egyptian court upheld on Tuesday the death sentence of former President Mohamed Morsi for plotting prison breaks and attacks on police during the 2011 uprising.

The sentence, which had been initially issued in May, was now upheld after a consultation with the Grand Mufti, the highest religious authority in Egypt.

Egypt will inaugurate a "new Suez canal" shipping route in August aimed at speeding up traffic along the existing waterway and boosting revenues, officials said June 13.

African leaders signed on June 10 a potentially historic 26-nation free trade pact to create a common market spanning half the continent from Cairo to Cape Town.

The deal on the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) caps five years of negotiations to set up a framework for preferential tariffs easing the movement of goods in an area home to 625 million people.

Egypt summoned the US ambassador in Cairo to show displeasure at Muslim Brotherhood figures coming to Washington for a private conference, sources familiar with the matter said on June 8.

One source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said US officials did not intend to meet the group although they had met some Brotherhood figures that came to Washington in January. 

The government of Egypt conducted its first international bond sale in five years on June 4, underlining a return of economic and political stability to the country after its Arab Spring uprising of 2011.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will face a second and final retrial over the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule, a high court said on June 4.

Siemens AG “went to town” on Wednesday by winning an eight-billion-euro order by Egypt to build gas and wind power plants in the country, called the biggest single order in the German multinational’s history.
The announcement came as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi was on an official visit to Germany.

An Egyptian court postponed June 2 issuing a final ruling over a death sentence recommendation for former Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and other top Muslim Brotherhood leaders in a case related to a 2011 mass jail break. 

The judge said the case was postponed to June 16. 

The European Union has denounced the death sentence handed down to Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi and at least 100 others, while Turkey is preparing to turn to the United Nations to halt the sentence. 

The death sentence given to Egypt?s toppled former president on May 16 is not only wrong, but also likely to make everything in the Middle East even worse.

Apart from the fact that the death sentence - which is irreversible regardless of mistakes - should have no place in modern legal systems, the sentence is wrong and likely to make everything worse for a few other reasons.