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Egypt: Another building collapses in AlexandriaF

On Monday, June 26, 2023, a 13-story building in the El-Montazah district, Sidi Bishr area of Alexandria collapsed, causing significant damage. The building, which was condemned by the authorities, may have been used as hotel structure but details remain sketchy. So...

Egypt executes man over high-profile femicideF

Egypt: Three British tourists missing after boat fire in the Red SeaF

Egypt’s regime intensifies repression, kills any hope of political stabilityF

Egypt: Shark attack claims life of foreign resident in resort city of HurghadaF

Egypt: Suez Canal traffic resumes after broken down tanker tugged awayF

Egypt deployed three tugboats Sunday to tow away an oil tanker that had broken down and caused brief delays in the Suez Canal, authorities in charge of the vital waterway said. Traffic in both directions returned to normal after a brief disruption when the...

Egypt: Single container ship cripples Suez Canal trafficF

By Farid Farid - The owners of a giant container vessel blocking the Suez Canal said Thursday they faced "extreme difficulty" refloating it, as Egypt temporarily closed one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's advisor on...

Repression: Egypt sentences activist Sanaa Seif to 18 months in prisonF

Egyptian political activist Sanaa Seif was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday for spreading "false information" relating to Covid-19, her sister and lawyers said. Seif's brother is jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent figure in the Arab Spring...

Repression: How the Egyptian army destroyed the Sinai in the name of the “war on terror”F

Egyptian troops have demolished more than 12,300 buildings in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013 in a campaign of forced evictions that likely amount to "war crimes", Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. A decade-old jihadist insurgency in North Sinai province escalated in...

Egypt considers critics and political opponents as terrorists, world starting to push backF

By Nina Larson - Egypt must stop using anti-terrorism laws to muzzle critics and even keep them in pre-trial detention indefinitely, dozens of countries told the UN on Friday. In a rare oral rebuke of Egypt at the United Nations Human Rights Council, 31 countries...

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