The Latest Breaking News from Egypt

Egyptian prison authorities have intervened medically with imprisoned pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who this week escalated his hunger strike and stopped drinking water, his family said Thursday, demanding his release. The drama surrounding his fate is coinciding with Egypt’s hosting of the U.N. climate summit.

World leaders and climate scientists aren’t the only ones who have gathered in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for the latest UN climate summit, COP27. Children and young people are also a big part of the conference.

African nations must be allowed to develop fossil fuel resources to help lift their people out of poverty, governments said at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which welcomed leaders of oil and gas companies sidelined at previous talks.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s family fear prison officials in Egypt have force-fed him, which they say would amount to torture.

The U.N. food agency aims to launch a plan within the year to make the world's food system more sustainable, a senior executive told Reuters on the sidelines of the COP27 climate talks in Egypt.

A member of the defence team of Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah tweeted on Thursday that he had been granted permission by Egypt's state prosecutor to visit him in prison.

Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.

Omar Robert Hamilton, Alaa Abdel-Fattah's cousin and an editor of his recent Selected Works told the Mirror how worried the family is at this latest news from Egypt

Drinks are on the house at this year’s U.N. climate talks and the price of food will be slashed in half, Egypt’s foreign minister said Thursday following complaints from delegates