Exclusive: Corruption scandals in the military overthrow high profile officers
Exclusive Egyptian judicial and military sources have revealed to Egypt Watch that a concealed clash is taking place between the Egyptian Armed Forces and a number of judicial authorities on the one hand, and the Administrative Control Authority (ACA) on…
Coronavirus: Partial strike at Tora Prison
The Revolutionary Socialist Movement has announced that about 100 detainees in Tora Prison have started a partial hunger strike in protest at the absence of suitable measures inside the prison to prevent the spread of coronavirus among the detainees. In…
Leaked army document reveals high number of COVID-19 infection rates in 5 governorates
We Record human rights monitoring organisation has published on its Facebook page a top-secret military document addressed to military units in five Egyptian provinces that have high infection rates of the novel coronavirus. The document orders a suspension of leave…
Egypt’s cotton exports stopped
Mohamed Youssef, a member of the Supreme Council for Textile Industries, has said that Egypt’s exports of raw cotton and clothing stopped completely during the past week, as a result of a significant reduction in demand by international companies for…
Egypt: Guardian correspondent forced out of Egypt
The Guardian newspaper has revealed that the Egyptian security forces pressured their correspondent in Egypt Ruth Michaelson to leave the country after they published an article by her saying that the number of coronavirus infections in Egypt exceeds official figures….
Ethiopia appoints its former foreign minister as ambassador to Egypt
Ethiopia has announced the appointment of its former Foreign Minister Marcos Tekle, as its new ambassador to Egypt, to succeed Ambassador Dina Mofti. It has also appointed a new ambassador to Khartoum, Yelbital Emero. Tekle is considered one of the…
Capital Economics: Egypt’s economy shrinks 1.3% in 2020
Capital Economics predicts that the Egyptian economy will shrink 1.3% this fiscal year due to the coronavirus outbreak, while it expects the growth rate to rise to 7.8 per cent next fiscal year. It expected that the growth rate of…
Egypt police bully a group of Chinese people, accuse them of barbequing snakes
Egyptian security forces have arrested a group of Chinese people after receiving reports that they were barbecuing snakes in a rented villa in Madinaty, northeast Cairo. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late December in the Chinese city of Wuhan,…
Quarantine fugitives spark panic in Egypt
As Egyptians try to protect their families from being infected with Covid-19 fugitives from medical quarantine are causing panic in the country because of the possibility they are spreading the virus in the country. Observers say the numbers of people…
Egypt: Major traffic in the first days of lockdown
Social media users in Egypt have shared photos and videos of the metro and trains crowded with citizens on the first day of the curfew. The main streets and roads were paralysed with traffic in the last hours before the…
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