The chairman of Egypt's Suez Canal on Thursday affirmed the waterway is "not for sale", in a bid to allay fears over a draft law under discussion in parliament. On Tuesday the legislature approved in principle a bill proposed by the government seeking to establish a...
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Egypt: Lawyers, pharmacists, doctors angry at new electronic invoicing system
In a rare public show of protest in Egypt, "thousands of lawyers" staged a demonstration at their union in central Cairo Monday, prominent lawyer Tarek al-Awady said. After a smaller protest was held Thursday, lawyers assembled again in droves Monday to protest a new...
Saudi Arabia jails Egyptian men for attempt to organize remembrance event for the 1973 Arab-Israeli war
A Saudi judge on Monday sentenced 10 Egyptian men for up to 18 years for having tried to organise a remembrance event for the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, two relatives told AFP. The men, from Egypt's Nubian minority group, were found guilty of trying to establish a...
Egypt: As it prepares for major climate summit, Egypt criticized for “growing repression of dissent”
Egyptian authorities "have continued to stifle freedoms" in the year since launching a national human rights strategy, Amnesty International said Wednesday, six weeks before Egypt hosts the COP27 climate summit. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi launched the rights...
Egyptians saddened by loss of so many children in church fire
Mourners in Egypt attended a memorial service Tuesday for victims of a Coptic church fire in Cairo that killed 41 people -- among them many children, including twins and triplets. The electrical fire on Sunday ripped through the Abu Sifin church in Imbaba, a working...
Egypt: 41 killed in church fire in Giza
By Khaled Desouki Funerals were held in two Cairo churches Sunday evening for 41 victims of a fire that ripped through a Coptic Christian church during mass, forcing worshippers to jump out of windows. The blaze, blamed on an electrical fault, hit the Abu Sifin church...
Egypt: How Egypt is tormenting jailed journalists
A freelance Egyptian journalist who worked for pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera and was arrested on false news and...
Egypt: Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine headed to Egypt, with late January rollout
Egypt has approved the use of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharma giant Sinopharm with its rollout to start...
Egypt: Covid-19 deaths due to shortage of oxygen in Egypt
Egypt said Sunday it had opened an investigation into the deaths of four Covid-19 patients in an intensive care unit...
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