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The Madbouly government needs to strike a balance between security and an environment that allows civil society organizations to grow<\/strong>, opinion writer Emad El Din Hussein writes for Al Shorouk<\/a>. President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has acknowledged the law could change, and the challenge now is to ensure that amendments deliver a bill that can hold to account organizations that engage in illegal activities without the state needing to use blanket tactics that restrict civil society as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Madbouly government needs to strike a balance between security and an environment that allows civil society organizations to grow, opinion writer Emad El Din Hussein writes for Al Shorouk. 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