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El Sisi promises to support low-income citizens:<\/b> The government is working on measures to shore up the social safety nets and help \u201cprotect the rights\u201d of low-income citizens affected by subsidy cuts, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi wrote on Twitter yesterday<\/a>. The foreign press, including the Associated Press<\/a>, took note of the message in light of recent protests, which continue to lead the conversation on Egypt.<\/p>\n

Turkish mouthpiece TRT World<\/a> was out with a piece yesterday saying that rising economic inequality and perceived corruption were the main drivers of the demonstrations. An editorial in the Washington Post<\/a> suggests that the huge security operation this past weekend revealed a sense of \u201cpanic\u201d within the government about the possibility of the previous weekend\u2019s outburses escalating. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), meanwhile, is calling on the government<\/a> to release journalists Alaa Abdel Fattah<\/a>, Nasser Abdel Hafez and Engi Abdel Wahab who are among almost 2k people<\/a> swept up in a widespread campaign of arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El Sisi promises to support low-income citizens: The government is working on measures to shore up the social safety nets and help \u201cprotect the rights\u201d of low-income citizens affected by subsidy cuts, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi wrote on Twitter yesterday. 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