Month: May 2020

External debt has risen 145% since al-Sisi came to power

The Central Bank of Egypt announced that the volume of foreign debts owed on Egypt increased to about $ 112.67 billion at the end of December of 2019, compared to $ 96.61 billion at the end of December 2018, achieving…

Egypt hits a new record in the daily number of COVID 19 infections

The rate of daily infections with the Coronavirus, in Egypt, reached an unprecedented leap, Friday, and touched the barrier of 500 new cases, one day after the government announced its expectations that the daily infections would exceed the 400 level….

A new step towards internationalization: Egypt complains Ethiopia to the Security Council

Egypt submitted a complaint to the UN Security Council against Ethiopia, because of the latter’s intention to move forward with its plans to fill the reservoir of the Renaissance Dam, without reaching a tripartite agreement between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan….

CBE: $3.1 billion decrease in foreign reserves during April

The Central Bank of Egypt announced that Egypt’s net foreign reserves would fall to $37.037 billion at the end of April, compared to $40.1 billion last month. CBE said that it used about $3.1billion of international monetary reserves to cover…

Kuwait bears the cost of bringing the stranded Egyptians back to Egypt

“Kuwait exempted all stranded Egyptians from bearing flight fees, as well as staying in quarantine hotels in Egypt,” said cabinet spokesman Nader Saad, noting that the past two days have witnessed the return of more than 1,100 Egyptian citizens from…

WSJ: The Pentagon wants to withdraw US forces from Sinai

The Wall Street Journal revealed that US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is leading a push to withdraw troops from an international peacekeeping force the U.S. heads in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Pentagon officials told the newspaper that the possible withdrawal…

Coronavirus in Egypt: Quarantine hospitals fed up and the epidemic is in the third stage

Ahmed El-Sobky, head of the General Authority for Health Care, Assistant Egyptian Minister of Health, warned of the increasing number of infections with Coronavirus (COVID 19), pointing out that the absorptive capacity of the quarantine hospitals has reached the maximum…

Air Pollution: A Growing Danger to the Ages and the Health of Egyptians

The new Coronavirus (COVID -19) represents a greater danger to the inhabitants of the regions that suffer from air pollution. This pollution resulted in the early death of about 7 million annually across the world, as it causes severe and chronic respiratory…

Shadi Habash’s death 2020 reminds with Khaled Said’s 2010

The statement issued by the Egyptian Attorney General’s statement on the causes of the death of the young director Shadi Habash in his prison in Tora prison last Saturday, raised a state of irony and anger, as activists considered that…

A crisis between labor and administration in Alexandria Clothes Company over salaries’ cuts

The center for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS) issued a statement, in which it said that the Alexandria Company for Clothes in Borg El Arab City had prevented the company’s workers, who numbered about 500, from entering the factory…