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Egypt: Scores killed in car collision in Cairo
Cairo, Aug 5, 2019 - At least 20 people have been killed when a speeding car driving against traffic crashed into three others causing a huge explosion in Cairo, the Egyptian health ministry said Monday. The car collision happened just before midnight Sunday outside...
Egypt: One third of Egyptians live with less than $1.4 per day
Cairo, July 30, 2019 - Nearly a third of Egyptians live below the poverty line, up from 27.8 percent in 2015, Egypt's flagship state-owned newspaper Al Ahram reported on Tuesday, citing official figures. "The poverty rate has reached 32.5% across the republic for...
Egypt: Sudan warlord Mohamed Hamdan Daglo meets Sisi
Cairo, July 29, 2019 - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met in Cairo Monday powerful Sudanese military General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, whose forces have been accused of carrying out a brutal crackdown on protesters. In his first official visit to the Egyptian...
Egyptian minister suggests that people who criticize Egypt should be killed.
Montreal, July 24, 2019 - Egypt's immigration minister is facing criticism following a speech in Canada in which she appears to suggest that people who criticize the country should be killed. "Anyone who says anything about our country, what happens to them?" Nabila...
Egypt: British Airways cancels flights to Cairo, cites security concerns
London, July 20, 2019 - British Airways said Saturday it had suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precautionary measure following a security review. German carrier Lufthansa also said it was suspending flights to Cairo from Munich and Frankfurt just for...
Egypt: Islamic State beheads four civilians in North Sinai
Cairo, July 17, 2019 - On Wednesday, 17 July, Islamic State militants beheaded four civilians in Sheikh Zuweid, in town in Egypt's North Sinai after they allegedly collaborated with the Egyptian military. In online statements, the Islamic State group claimed...
Egypt: Suicide bomb attack claims two lives in Sheikh Zuweid
Cairo, July 18, 2019- Two people including a civilian were killed in a suicide bomb attack Thursday targeting security forces in the restive Sinai Peninsula, medical and security sources said. The attack hit forces stationed near a parking lot in the city of Sheikh...
Egypt: Restrictive law likely to mark the death of many NGOs in Egypt
Cairo, July 15, 2019 - Egypt's parliament on Monday approved amendments to a controversial law that rights groups say imposes strict curbs on non-governmental organisations. The changes come after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced last November that the law...
Egypt: Pro-Mubarak Facebook page admin arrested for “spreading false info”
Cairo, July 11, 2019 - The administrator of a Facebook page supporting Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak was detained for 15 days for "spreading false information", a judicial source said Thursday. Karim Hussein is the administrator of a page named "I'm sorry Mr...
Egypt: Consumers in Egypt confronted with higher fuel prices
Cairo, July 5, 2019 - Egypt increased fuel prices Friday in its latest round of subsidy cuts under a reform package agreed with the International Monetary Fund, authorities said. The latest cut in fuel subsidies is a condition of a $12-billion loan secured from the...
Egypt: Another terror attack in Egypt’s North Sinai
Cairo, June 26, 2019 - Seven police officers have been killed in a jihadist attack in restive North Sinai, Egypt's interior ministry said Wednesday. The attack near the regional capital El-Arish targeted an "assembly centre" for police, according to the ministry. Four...
Egypt: General Sisi attacks businesses, accuses them of plotting against him
Cairo, June 25, 2019 - Egyptian authorities raided 19 businesses Tuesday accused of funding a plot to overthrow the state, the interior ministry said. Footage broadcast on Egyptian television showed police officers raiding the firms in the capital Cairo and the cities...
Egypt: Fallout of President Morsi’s death
Egypt's Morsi likely 'more popular' after death Cairo, June 19, 2019 (By Aziz El Massassi) - Unpopular in power and deposed after huge protests, Egypt's ex-president Mohamed Morsi could be humanised in the eyes of many Egyptians after his death in court Monday. "It is...
Egypt: Opposition party accuses Egyptian authorities of “deliberately killing” Morsi
Cairo, June 18, 2019 (By Farid Farid and Mona Salem) - Egypt's first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi was buried Tuesday, as the UN backed calls for an independent investigation into the causes of his death after he collapsed in a Cairo courtroom. The...
Egypt: Former President Mohamed Morsi dies after facing judge
Cairo, June 17, 2019 - Mohamed Morsi, who died Monday aged 67, was Egypt's first democratically elected president but spent just one turbulent year in office after the 2011 uprising before the army toppled him. The Islamist's overthrow was followed by a brutal...
Egypt: Army retaliates for Eid attack on checkpoint in North Sinai, kills 14 suspected militants
Cairo, June 6, 2019 - Egyptian security forces have killed 14 suspected militants during a raid carried out in the restive Sinai Peninsula in response to a deadly checkpoint attack, the authorities said. Wednesday's attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, left...
Egypt: Islamic State attacks army checkpoint in North Sinai, kills eight security agents
Cairo, June 5, 2019 - Militants killed eight Egyptian paramilitaries on Wednesday at a checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, centre of a long-running jihadist insurgency, security and medical sources said. "Eight killed and three wounded were transferred to El-Arish...
Sudan army unleashes repression on protesters
June 3, 2019 - Egypt on Monday urged all sides in Sudan to return to the negotiating table as security forces moved to break up a weeks-long protest camp in Khartoum. Violence erupted at the sit-in outside the army headquarters in the Sudanese capital earlier in the...
Libya hands over suspected Islamic State insurgent to Egypt
Cairo, May 29, 2019 - One of the most-wanted Egyptian militants who was captured in neighbouring Libya last year has been transferred to Egypt, state media reported on Wednesday. Libyan strongman Khalifa Hafter handed over Hisham el-Ashmawy after meeting with Egypt's...
Egypt: Jazeera journalist kept in Egyptian jail in case of judicial harassment
Cairo, May 29, 2019 - Egyptian prosecutors ordered a journalist working for Qatar's Al Jazeera to remain in detention pending further investigation, despite a court order to release him, a security source said on Wednesday. Mahmoud Hussein, an Egyptian national, was...
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