Social & Human Affairs Bound

Egypt on Monday barred officials and students not vaccinated against Covid-19 from government offices and universities unless they show a negative PCR test. Officials who have not had a jab must show a PCR test, which is prohibitively expensive in Egypt, "every three...

Human Rights Watch criticised Monday the choice of Egypt as host for the next climate summit, warning the government would use it to "whitewash its appalling record of human rights abuses".  "Egypt is a glaringly poor choice to host COP27 and rewards the repressive...

By Paul Raymond Tunisian olive farmer Ali Fileli looked out over his parched fields and crushed a lump of dry, dusty earth in his hand. "I can't do anything with my land because of the lack of water," he said. Fileli is just one of many farmers who have been left high...