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Sisi on January 25 Revolution Anniversary: Egypt is Oasis of Stability

President Sisi lays a wreath at the monument commemorating police martyrs. (Egyptian presidency)
President Sisi lays a wreath at the monument commemorating police martyrs. (Egyptian presidency)
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Sisi on January 25 Revolution Anniversary: Egypt is Oasis of Stability

President Sisi lays a wreath at the monument commemorating police martyrs. (Egyptian presidency)
President Sisi lays a wreath at the monument commemorating police martyrs. (Egyptian presidency)

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi declared on Thursday that his country has become an “oasis of security and stability”, after years of political and security turbulence that followed the January 25, 2011 revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

Sisi spoke at the annual ceremony celebrating Police Day, which falls on January 25.

“The whole world has seen how Egypt has turned into an oasis of security and stability in only a few years,” he told a large audience of government officials, commanders in the country's security apparatus and religious leaders at Egypt's police academy in eastern Cairo.

“I will always value and take pride in the fact that you and your fellows in the armed forces are facing a fierce battle against dark terrorism," he said.

“Today coincides with the anniversary of the January 25 revolution with its noble demands that the Egyptian citizen would lead a dignified life,” he stressed.

“History will pause long to admire the Egyptian example, which stems from the strong will and determination of the people, who have withstood unprecedented economic measures in wake of unstable regional and local circumstances,” added the president

Interior Minister Mahmoud Toufik stated that stability in Egypt can be attributed to his ministry’s security strategy that focuses on carrying out preemptive raids to destroy terrorist cells and plots.

Terrorism has been used to influence crises and carry out plots and conspiracies, but Egypt has deterred and is still deterring them through the strength of its state, leadership and people, he remarked.

Terrorism has not been defeated yet, he warned. This demands vigilance and strong efforts to counter any desperate attempts to undermine security or the gains of the people, he continued.

The minister accused the banned Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group of controlling terror organizations that are working on harming Egypt’s stability.

On Wednesday, the Interior Ministry issued a statement saying the Brotherhood was plotting to “spread chaos” and “undermine the country's stability” by using cyberspace to call for protests and rioting on January 25.

The statement said authorities had arrested members of the Brotherhood and discovered several weapon caches.

Plotters were coordinating their efforts with fugitive militants who reside in Turkey, the statement added.

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Guterres: Sudan's Warring Forces are Escalating Attacks and Outsiders are Fueling the Fire

Members of Sudan's security forces take part in the opening ceremony of a headquarter facility in the army-controlled Port Sudan, where the government loyal to the army is based on the Red Sea coast, on October 28, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Members of Sudan's security forces take part in the opening ceremony of a headquarter facility in the army-controlled Port Sudan, where the government loyal to the army is based on the Red Sea coast, on October 28, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
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Guterres: Sudan's Warring Forces are Escalating Attacks and Outsiders are Fueling the Fire

Members of Sudan's security forces take part in the opening ceremony of a headquarter facility in the army-controlled Port Sudan, where the government loyal to the army is based on the Red Sea coast, on October 28, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Members of Sudan's security forces take part in the opening ceremony of a headquarter facility in the army-controlled Port Sudan, where the government loyal to the army is based on the Red Sea coast, on October 28, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces are escalating attacks with outside powers “fueling the fire,” which is intensifying the nightmare of hunger and disease for millions, the United Nations chief said Monday.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the UN Security Council that the 18-month war faces the serious possibility of “igniting regional instability from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa to the Red Sea.”
In a grim report, Guterres said the Sudanese people are living through numerous “nightmares” – from killings and “unspeakable atrocities” including widespread rapes to fast-spreading diseases, mass ethnic violence, and 750,000 people facing “catastrophic food insecurity” and famine conditions in North Darfur displacement sites.
He singled out “ shocking reports of mass killings and sexual violence ” in villages in east-central Gezira province in recent days. The UN and a doctors’ group said paramilitary fighters ran riot in the region in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town.
Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital Khartoum and spread to other regions including western Darfur.
The war has killed more than 24,000 people so far, according to Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, a group monitoring the conflict since it started. It has created the world's worst displacement crisis, with more than 11 million people fleeing their homes including 3 million to neighboring countries.
Guterres urged both sides to immediately agree to a cessation of hostilities, ensure the protection of civilians for which they bear primary responsibility, and enable humanitarian aid to flow to millions in need.
The secretary-general said he is “horrified” by reports that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, continue to attack civilians in North Darfur’s capital El Fasher and surrounding areas, including displacement sites where famine has been confirmed.
“And I am also horrified by reports of attacks against civilians perpetrated by forces affiliated with the Sudanese Armed Forces in Khartoum, and by continuing mass civilian casualties due to apparently indiscriminate airstrikes in populated areas,” he said.
Guterres said those who violate international humanitarian law must be held accountable.
The war began four years after a pro-democracy uprising forced the military’s ouster of Sudan’s longtime Omar al-Bashir which was followed by a short-lived transition to democracy.
It has been marked by atrocities such as mass rape and ethnicity-motivated killings. The United Nations and international rights groups say these acts amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly in the western region of Darfur, which has been facing a bitter onslaught by the RSF, which was born out of the Janjaweed.
Two decades ago, Darfur became synonymous with genocide and war crimes, particularly by the notorious Janjaweed Arab militias, against populations that identify as Central or East African. Up to 300,000 people were killed and 2.7 million were driven from their homes.
That legacy appears to have returned, with the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, saying in January there are grounds to believe both sides may be committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide in Darfur.