Towards Bir al-Abd: Why did Sinai Province head west?
The last months have witnessed increasing attacks launched by Sinai Province in the area of Bir al-Abd, to the extent that observers now consider it the strategic stronghold of the organisation instead of Arish, Sheikh Zuweid, or Rafah. Tribal sources…
Air traffic in Egypt suspended until end of March
The Egyptian government will suspend air traffic starting from midday on Thursday March 19 until the end of March. Prime Minister Dr. Moustafa Madbouly said in a press conference that all hotels and tourist facilities will sterilise and disinfect their…
Liquidating a public company: A brief story of corruption in Egypt
The general assembly of the Egyptian National Navigation Company (NNC) decided last month to liquidate the company. According to the resolution text, the accumulated losses of the company (about EGP 1 billion, $63.5 million) are the main reason for the…
Osama Morsi: The son of the late president is being subject to a slow and silent death
The international legal team defending the family of the late former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi have expressed serious concern about the physical safety of the late president’s son, Osama Morsi, who is still being held in one of the Cairo…
Washington Post: Egypt government lacks transparency in combating coronavirus
The Washington Post has revealed that the American Taiwanese passenger who boarded the Nile cruise ship MS Asara in late January was the beginning of a chain which spread coronavirus in the country. Until the case was discovered the ship…
Bad weather causes 20 deaths in Egypt
Major General Mohamed Abdel Maksoud, head of crisis sector and decision support in the Cabinet Information Centre, said that 20 people have died from the latest spell of bad weather. Abdel Maksoud added, in a TV interview, that many of…
Coronavirus implications on the economy exacerbated
The Egyptian Stock Exchange witnessed in a trading session on Sunday a sharp decline with a collective decline of all indicators. Under pressure from sales of Arab and foreign investors, the EGX 30 Index fell by 9.09 per cent, and…
Coronavirus cases increase to 126, strict precautions taken
The Ministry of Health has announced the discovery of 16 new cases of coronavirus, eight Egyptians and eight foreigners of different nationalities, all of whom were in contact with positive cases that were previously discovered and announced, with the exception…
Demands for Egypt’s detainees to be released as coronavirus spreads
Several human rights organisations in Egypt have called for the immediate release of political detainees and prisoners for fear of an outbreak of coronavirus in Egypt’s prisons, especially after a number of countries in the world have done this, including…
Egypt’s tourist cities under coronavirus siege
Local Egyptian sources have said that new cases of coronavirus have appeared in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh, causing panic in this important tourist city which prompted Egyptian authorities to block access to the internet in an attempt to…
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