Egypt charges fees for departures on foreign and domestic flights
Egyptian Aviation Minister Younis al-Masry issued a decision to impose fees for departures from Egyptian airports, whether they be domestic or foreign flights. The official Egyptian gazette said Wednesday that these fees will be collected from passengers in exchange for…
How Sissi’s Egypt Hands Out Justice
KAFR AL-SHEIKH, EGYPT – Security forces detained Lotfy Ibrahim, a young construction worker, as he left a mosque near his home on the Nile Delta in the spring of 2015. When his family finally saw him again nearly three months…
Egypt thirsty as Nile water levels alarming low
August 2, 2019 The Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation has announced the decline of the Nile water level by about 5 billion m3 compared to last year. The announcement has sparked concern among Egyptians activists who launched a hashtag on Twitter…
Are we on a date with the collapse of the cement industry in Egypt?
August 2, 2019 “We may witness bankruptcies if the state does not intervene to save the industry,” said the director of the cement division, Noha Bakr, in an interview last January. Bakr was speaking of the crisis facing the cement…
Prosecution investigates killing of two inside Alexandria police station
August 1, 2019 The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) said on Wednesday that prosecutors are investigating the killing of two people inside El-Dekheila police station in Alexandria during their detention. ECRF confirmed that one of the two victims…
Amnesty International: 130 prisoners on hunger strike in Egypt
August 1, 2019 About 130 detainees in the heavily guarded Scorpion wing of Tora Prison have been on hunger strike for the last six weeks. Strikers are protesting against the prevention of visits since their arrest two years ago, Amnesty…
Sisi laughs at economic decline in Egypt
August 1, 2019 Abdel Fattah al-Sisi burst out laughing, taunting the difficult economic climate and societal deterioration in Egypt at an annual youth conference held earlier this week. “If people in Egypt had rejected economic reforms we would have held…
Egypt owes $14.5 billion of debt in next 6 months
August 1, 2019 Egypt has to repay $12.7 billion in premiums and $1.8 billion in interest during the second half of 2019, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said on Tuesday. The debt is divided into $1.48 billion for Paris…
Son of former justice minister Ahmed Suleiman: My father is subject to deliberate medical negligence
August 1st, 2019 The son of Ahmed Suleiman, the former minister of justice in the government of the late President Mohamed Morsi, revealed on Tuesday that his father has suffered for eight months in prison and said that freedom…
ECRF file lawsuit demanding disclosure of Mustafa al-Najjar’s place of detention
August 1st, 2019 The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), an Egyptian civil society organisation, have filed a lawsuit to the Administrative Court of the State Council to demand the disclosure of former MP Mustafa al-Najjar’s place of detention….
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