Military aims to monopolise media in Egypt

Significance

Tahrir News suggested that the vanished archives related to the 2011 uprising, according to BBC Monitoring. Under President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, press freedom has decreased, with the military making inroads into the country’s media landscape.

Impacts

• Foreign news media will face more difficulties in reporting, including possible deportations and restricted access to official sources.
• The military's greater control over the media will make it easier to disguise the armed forces's expanding economic activity.
• Already-opaque military matters will be even more obscured by increased use of state propaganda and regulation.