Year: 2020

The government reduces the price of buying rice from farmers

The Egyptian government tends to reduce the price of supplying a ton of rice from farmers during the harvest season next September, which plunged farmers into a state of despair and general discontent. The authorities seek to reduce the price…

Campaigns against private tutoring classes: The regime’s new investment?

The Ministry of Education in Egypt, in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior, has launched intensive campaigns on private tutoring classes centers during the past few days. The ministry justified these campaigns by saying it aims to prevent gatherings…

Frequent exam leaks expose the failure of the government

With the launch of the second round of high school exams, the phenomenon of leaking exams and posting questions on social media has returned. Cheating pages on social media circulated pictures that they said were of the first foreign language…

The restoration of Egyptian antiquities proves double standards and politicisation

The contradiction in the Egyptian regime and its double standards in the preservation and restoration of antiquities attracted the attention of observers who tried to explain this strange behaviour. Israel in Arabic Facebook page via Twitter published photos of the…

The Egypt-Sudan conflict over Halayeb and Shalateen returns to the fore

The issue of the border dispute between Egypt and Sudan regarding the Halayeb Triangle has come to the fore again after the statements of the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant…

68 deaths in Egyptian prisons in six months

Egyptian prisons recorded 68 deaths in detention centres during the first six months of this year, according to a report by the Community for Justice human rights organisation. The report said that Egyptian prisons recorded 4,664 violations inside prisons and…

7 defendants in the Fairmont rape case escape Egypt

The Egyptian prosecutor announced that seven of the accused in the Fairmont rape incident have escaped Egypt and the prosecution of two others continues. According to a statement made by the prosecution, the defendants left the country via Cairo Airport,…

Al-Sisi bans two folklore songs which hint at tyranny

Egypt has banned Ya Balah Zaghloul (Oh, Zaghloul Dates) and Aho Dah Elly Sar (That Is What Happened) songs from the Sayed Darwish play performed at the Balloon Theatre in Cairo, without a reasonable reason. The decision sparked a wave…

High rates of coronavirus infections herald second wave

Coronavirus infection rates have increased again, heralding a new wave of COVID-19 in a country where the heath system is poor. During recent days, Egypt recorded a significant increase in deaths and infections, daily, before the government described these increases…

Egypt MP congratulates his voters for the imminent opening of a new prison

An Egyptian parliamentarian aroused widespread ridicule by offering his congratulations to the people of his district on the imminent of opening a new prison with a capacity of 1,200 prisoners. A member of the National Defence and Security Committee in…