Egypt’s Li Wenliangs: The doctors arrested for reporting corona infections
Egyptian activists have launched a campaign of solidarity with the Egyptian doctor Aalaa Shaban Hemida, who was arrested by the Egyptian regime for reporting to the Egyptian Ministry of Health a coronavirus case in the hospital where she works in…
Egypt: COVID-19 deaths among political prisoners mount
Egyptian human rights sources said that the Egyptian political detainee, Hassan Ziada, died inside his detention centre in the police station of Al-Mahalla Al-Kubra in Gharbia Governorate, northern Egypt, as a result of being infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19). The…
Egypt sends military reinforcements to Libya border: Has al-Sisi decided on war?
Defence blog Military Affairs reported on Sunday night that the Egyptian armed forces deployed Abrams combat tanks to the border with Libya. The journalist and military aviation analyst Babak Taghvaee posted on his Twitter account a short video showing what…
Haftar’s last day? Al-Sisi’s close ally in Libya is in a dilemma
In the famous Egyptian movie, Salah al-Din, England’s King Richard I (the Lionheart) stands at the end of the movie, complaining about the betrayal of his friends and allies from the kings of Europe at the time of the Crusade…
Egypt’s foreign cash reserves are bleeding
Official data released by the Central Bank of Egypt revealed that the country’s foreign currency reserves were bled again in the last month as a result of the negative repercussions of the emerging coronavirus (COVID-19). The Central Bank of Egypt…
Al-Sisi’s declaration on Libya born dead
On Saturday, Egyptian General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi launched what he called the Cairo Declaration to solve the Libyan crisis and preserve the unity and stability of Libyan lands and the capabilities of its people. This came after he received the…
Surgical masks: A new burden on the family budget
The coronavirus crisis and its repercussions have increased the economic burden on citizens in Egypt, by adding new requirements to their daily request bills, including “alcohol [sanitiser], masks, and gloves” (prevention and disinfection measures). With the government announcing the implementation…
COVID-19 infection rate mounts in Egypt
The Egyptian Ministry of Health has recorded high rates of coronavirus infections as the number of people infected with the virus reached 1,497 over the weekend. According to those numbers, the total number of infected people in the country has…
Hasan Ziada: Egyptian political detainee dies of COVID-19
On Monday, Hasan Ziada, an Egyptian political detainee, died in Al-Mahalla Public Hospital, Gharbia, of COVID-19. Ziada died while his hands and legs were bound to the hospital bed, according to sources who talked to Al Jazeera. Ziada, a 54-year-old…
Coronavirus death toll in Egypt exceeds 1,000
On Monday, the Egyptian Ministry of Health announced the registration of 46 new deaths from coronavirus, bringing the total to 1,005 deaths. According to these official statistics, the country’s death rate is 3.8 per cent of infection. The Ministry also…
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