Ministry of Health initiates project for treating psychiatric disorders
August 22, 2019 The Ministry of Health has announced it is preparing a national project to confront a variety of psychiatric disorders including “anxiety, depression, tension and insomnia,” as well as social and family stress. This will be applied by…
UN postpones anti-torture conference in Cairo after backlash
The UN has postponed an anti-torture conference due to take place in Cairo, following an outcry from human rights activists who accused the organisation of “whitewashing” the Egyptian government’s abuses. The conference on “defining and criminalising torture in the Arab…
Students are the victims of blundering in Egypt’s education ministry
August 21, 2019 High school students are suffering uncertainty and confusion in the absence of answers about the fate of their school system in the next academic year, which reinforced the feeling among students that the Egyptian regime does not…
On the anniversary of the detainees’ vehicle massacre mass killers are free
August 21, 2019 On the sixth anniversary of what is known as the detainees’ vehicle massacre, which followed the Rabaa massacre, Egyptians consider that this incident is a stark example of the contradiction in Egyptian judiciary judgments. This incident occurred…
Life, Death and Laughter as Egypt Farmers Battle Climate Change
Packed into an open-air theater to watch a play on climate change, the Egyptian villagers near the ancient city of Luxor rock with laughter — even though it’s a performance about life and death. “What’s your secret?” asks one actor,…
Russia nuclear explosion frightens Egypt
August 20, 2019 Thousands of kilometres from Cairo a nuclear explosion rocked the Russian city of Severodvinsk. The explosion was analysed by the whole world, but the Egyptians had greater reasons to worry. The Russian nuclear reactor at the site…
The roar of poverty pushes Egyptians to psychological illness and crime
August 20, 2019 Crimes committed by so-called psychological patients in Egypt have increased. Scientific research conducted by the National Centre for Criminal and Social Research in Cairo has revealed that 25 per cent of the Egyptian population has various psychological…
Al-Sisi sacks Mamish and appoints new Suez Canal Authority chairman
August 20, 2019 On Saturday Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decision to dismiss Lieutenant General Mohab Mamish from his post as head of the Suez Canal Authority and appointed Lieutenant General Osama Rabie as his successor. Al-Sisi appointed Mamish as…
Renewed controversy over Egypt expatriates in Kuwait
August 20, 2019 The crisis of Egyptian expatriates in Kuwait has returned to the forefront of the news again after a census indicated a rise in the number of Egyptian workers in the country. According to the newspaper Al Rai,…
Egypt torture conference ‘kafkaesque horror’, says head of revolutionary council
Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council Maha Azzam has written to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria urging her to publicly condemn the regional conference on torture which will be held in Cairo at the beginning…
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