Has El-Sisi driven up suicide rates in Egypt?

This people have found no one to show them compassion,” read the title of a statement delivered by former Egyptian Defence Minister Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on 3 July 2013, announcing a military coup that removed the late Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected civilian president. It never crossed Egyptians’ minds that the general who promised them “compassion”, and who has been president since 2014 — now serving a third term extending to 2030 — would preside over a period during which the lives of hundreds, perhaps thousands, would come to an end under the weight of harsh living and economic conditions. The near-daily reports of suicides in Egypt have sparked widespread debate and raised pressing questions about the causes, implications […]