State & Barracks

State & Barracks

Border Wars, Hidden Poverty, Broken Pensions

Egypt Security Sector Report

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Jun 22, 2026
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This week’s issue looks at the hard edges of Egypt’s security state at home and across its borders: Trump’s renewed GERD rhetoric, Israel’s proposed civilian security outposts near the Egyptian frontier, deadly airstrikes reported along the Sudan-Egypt border, CAPMAS’s continued withholding of poverty data, and the pension crisis exposing the failures of militarized civilian administration.

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