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Reports of an Egypt spy inside the German government
A man who worked in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's press office is suspected of having spied for Egypt, a government report said Thursday. Police carried out "executive measures" against the man in December 2019 after he was found to have "worked for years for an...
Egypt: US tells Egypt to quit harassing Americans
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday welcomed Egypt's release of a US citizen but urged the ally to stop harassment of others. Mohamed Amashah, 24, was freed Monday, nearly 16 months after he was arrested in Cairo's Tahrir Square for holding up a sign...
Egypt is one step away from full military takeover of government
Cairo, July 6, 2020 - Egypt's parliament on Monday approved amendments allowing active or former military personnel to run for the presidency and parliament pending the army's approval. The legislative changes come a year after Egyptians overwhelmingly voted in favour...
Egypt announces arrest of man accused of abusing dozens of women
Egyptian authorities on Saturday arrested a man who allegedly sexually abused dozens of girls and women, in a case that has sparked outrage online, a security source said. Allegations have been widely circulating on social media since Wednesday detailing horrific...
Egypt: Court confirms 15-year sentence for activist Ahmed Douma
Cairo, July 4, 2020 - Egypt's top appeals court upheld Saturday a 15-year prison sentence for a leading figure of the country's 2011 uprising, a judicial source told AFP. Ahmed Douma has been jailed since 2013 on charges of clashing with security forces during a...
Egypt: Cairo has two new airports
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday inaugurated two more airports near Cairo in a bid to lure tourists as Egypt aims to recover from the economic downturn caused by coronavirus. One airport is in Egypt's new administrative capital, about 50 kilometres (30 miles)...
Egypt’s Shalateen Mining Company finds gold deposits in Eastern Desert
Egypt has discovered a gold deposit estimated at more than one million ounces in the country's southeast, the petroleum ministry said Tuesday. "The discovery .... is worth over $1 billion in investments over the next 10 years," the ministry said in a statement. The...
Egypt: Covid patients killed in fire at hospital in Montazah district, east of Alexandria
Cairo, June 29, 2020 - A fire at a hospital in Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria on Monday killed seven coronavirus patients, security and medical sources said. Seven other people were injured in the blaze, believed to be caused by a malfunctioning air conditioner in...
Egypt’s debt rising: $5 billion more from IMF
The IMF board on Friday approved a one-year, $5.2 billion financing package for Egypt to help the country alleviate the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new funding under a standby arrangement comes on top of $2.8 billion in emergency aid the IMF board...
Egypt accused of intimidating family of activist Mohamed Soltan
Washington, June 25, 2020 - Local and international rights groups on Thursday accused Egypt of "harassing and intimidating" the relatives of a US rights activist after he lodged a complaint against a former prime minister. Mohamed Soltan, the son of a leading member...
Egypt: Sisi regime arrests activist Sanaa Seif
Cairo, June 23, 2020 - Egyptian authorities on Tuesday arrested a prominent activist and sister of an iconic figure of the 2011 uprising, as part of an ongoing crackdown on dissidents, her lawyer and family said. Sanaa Seif, 26, was outside the public prosecutor's...
UN gives Egypt’s Sisi a gentle nudge to stop threatening Libya
United Nations, United States, June 22, 2020 - The UN said Monday the "last thing" Libya needs is more conflict on its territory, after Egypt warned of military intervention in the neighboring country. "It is clear that the last thing Libya needs right now is more...
Egypt: Despite spike in infections, Egypt allows reopening of some public places, no hookah allowed
Cairo, June 23, 2020 - Egypt will partially reopen cafes, restaurants, places of worship, cinemas and sporting clubs on Saturday, relaxing a lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli announced. A night-time curfew was imposed in late...
Egypt: Murder of Giulio Regeni remains thorny issue in Italy
Rome, June 19, 2020 - Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has accepted the blame for a failure to extract answers from Egypt over the unresolved 2016 murder of an Italian student in Cairo, while defending a controversial frigate deal. The $1.2 billion sale of two warships...
Egypt holds doctors in prison for speaking out on health crisis
Amnesty International demanded Thursday that Egypt stop its "harassment and intimidation" of frontline medics for speaking out during the coronavirus pandemic. The rights group documented the cases of eight healthcare workers, including six doctors and two...
Egypt: Nile dam talks getting complicated, experiencing deadlock
Egypt said Saturday that tripartite talks with Ethiopia and Sudan over a controversial mega-dam on the River Nile were deadlocked because of Addis Ababa's "intransigence". The Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been a source of tension in the Nile River basin...
Cairo and Doha finally show some humanity: They are now allowing Egyptians stranded in Qatar to return home
Doha, June 15, 2020 - Egyptian workers stranded in Qatar in the coronavirus lockdown have flown home, a community group said Monday, in the first of 18 repatriation flights that have overcome restrictions under a regional boycott. The flight with 174 passengers on...
Egypt’s virus infections on the rise, government maintains curfew
Egypt will extend a night-time curfew by a further two weeks in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Information Minister Osama Heikal said Thursday, as infections rise. Heikal told a news conference the measure would be enforced from 8:00 pm (1800 GMT) to...
Defense: Egypt to buy two warships from Italy
Rome, June 12, 2020 (By Ljubomir Milasin) - Italy has given a green light to the sale of two warships to Egypt, news media reported on Friday, despite tense relations between the two countries over the unresolved 2016 murder of an Italian student in Cairo. The $1.2...
Egypt: Female social media influencers under attack
Cairo, June 11, 2020 (By Bassem Aboualabass) - Young Egyptian women with thousands of followers each on the popular TikTok app have become the latest target of state authorities who accuse them of spreading "immorality" in society. Since President Abdel Fattah...
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