Why the United States is struggling in Egypt

25 October 20222 years ago babelfish

The chairman of the US Senate Appropriations Committee blocked a military aid package destined for Cairo due to repeated human rights violations in Egypt. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano

A $ 75 million military aid package was blocked by US Senator Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, for his objections to repeated human rights violations in Egypt.

This is the second consecutive year that the US administration has rescheduled military aid for Egypt. Nothing surprising when we consider that
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt of preventing activists and environmental groups from carrying out independent research and fieldwork to protect the environment as COP27 approaches. And what about the fact that Egyptian authorities have arrested 60,000 people and forcibly disappeared hundreds since 2013, while thousands have renewed their (often illegal) pre-trial detention.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi denied that Egypt holds political prisoners despite criticism from Amnesty International and HRW that its government is leading a campaign of widespread abuse, torture and detention of thousands of political prisoners.

If this blocking of funds reflects a growing gap between Congress and the Biden administration's priorities, on the other hand it is also possible that this decision is the consequence of bilateral relations between Egypt and Russia that have not collapsed despite the war in Ukraine. .

However, Cairo is in the eyes of the United States a strategic ally, an important mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict and vital in the stability of the region and the rest of the world (let's not forget that it controls the Suez Canal ).

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-gli-stati-uniti-faticano-in-egitto/ on Tue, 25 Oct 2022 05:26:09 +0000.