Year: 2020

Coronavirus: One of the strangest reasons for detention in Egypt

On Saturday, Egyptian security forces arrested two new citizens, accusing them of spreading rumors and fabricated news on social media about the spread of the new Coronavirus (Covid-19) in the country, and the occurrence of large numbers of deaths as…

Egyptians in Italy: Forgotten in the Coronavirus crisis

Despite the widespread of the new Coronavirus (Covid-19) infection in Italy, no Egyptian minister has spoken of the conditions of more than half a million Egyptians living in Italy. Although the Egyptian regime showed clear interest in the evacuation of…

Egypt is drowning: The government is powerless

Despite the prior announcement of the heavy rains, the Egyptian government did not appear to be ready with any emergency plans to face the winter monsoon rains that have caused total paralysis in the country annually. Heavy rains and winds…

70 cleaning workers arrested in Nasr City after protest

The Nasr City Prosecution issued a decision to release the cleaning workers of the sixth district in Nasr City after investigating them in the charge of gathering in front of district presidency building. The security services had arrested 70 workers,…

Conditioned release prevented in cases of demonstration

Parliament has finally approved a draft law submitted by the government, which aims to prevent the conditioned release of those convicted of crimes of gathering and demonstration, terrorism and drug trafficking. The draft law included an article prohibiting the conditional…

Egypt is the third in the world in arms imports

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) revealed that Egypt ranked third in the world in the import of arms and military equipment in the period from 2015 to 2019, with its arms imports reaching about 5.58% of the global market,…

The death of the second case of coronavirus

The Ministry of Health announced that the number of cases of coronavirus inside the country had risen to eighty, after registering thirteen new infections, including six cases without any symptoms, and one case that had died. Ministry spokesman Khaled Mujahid…

Egypt’s infrastructure collapses when it rains

Egypt has witnessed an unprecedented wave of bad weather since 1994, which was represented by heavy rains in all governorates of the Republic, accompanied by storms, thunder, lightning and torrential rain in some places. Rain and storms caused the death…

As more virus cases trace their origins to Egypt, questions rise over government measures

CAIRO — For days now, the Egyptian government has stated that a Taiwanese American woman was the source of the coronavirus infections of 45 passengers and crew members aboard a Nile cruise ship, suggesting that Egypt was a victim of…

The Egyptian government uses Coronavirus crisis to collect money

Activists accused the Egyptian government of using the new Coronavirus crisis and seeking to gain out from it, by imposing high fees on those wishing to conduct a PCR analysis to detect the new coronavirus. Photos showed hundreds of people…