Yemen’s Nobel Laureate and human rights advocate Tawakkol Karman expressed the belief that the struggle to overthrow Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Sisi is Egyptian, national and humane duty.

In a tweet on Friday, Karman predicted with confidence that “the great Egyptian people will soon turn the page on Sisi’s dark reign.”

Mrs. Karman noted that the coup against the legitimate president led to violating all rights and freedoms in Egypt, emphasizing that whoever opposes or calls to depose the current president stands on the right side of history, while those supporting him are on the dark side.

On the other hand, Karman mocked Sisi’s belief that getting more loans is considered as success and achievement, commenting, “His farces have no end.”

The International Monetary Fund approved a $12 billion loan for Egypt on Friday, in a move intended to secure against any economic collapse in the Arab world’s most populous country. 

Egypt’s economic crisis worsened this year as a severe scarcity of foreign currency led to inflation and shortages of essential goods like sugar, rice and medicine.

To make matters worse, Saudi Arabia has stopped sending shipments of discounted petroleum products for October and November, which forced Egypt to spend precious currency reserves to buy them from other sources.

It is noteworthy that many thousands demonstrated in several provinces and cities of Egypt, on Friday, in protest against the worsening economic situation in the country, in response to a call under the slogan of "the poor’s revolution" launched on social media.

Riot police and armoured vehicles filled empty streets in the centre of Cairo yesterday morning as security forces built up a heavy presence ahead of mass protests over deteriorating economic conditions.