Year: 2020

The black market for the masks of Corona virus grows

M.P Tareq Metwally, today, Thursday, requested a briefing to the Minister of Health and the Minister of Industry and Trade on the spread of the black market of masks and prophylactic tools of preventing the transmission of infectious diseases. Metwally…

Exclusive: Egypt doesn`t know if it has coronavirus

On February 27, the French Ministry of Health announced a significant increase in confirmed cases of coronavirus, at 38 cases, including two in Egypt on a tourist visit, from February 5 to 16. The number of total confirmed cases coming…

Al-Azhar`s international role expands as Egypt’s Foreign Ministry retreats

Al-Azhar Al-Sharif renewed its call to the Indian authorities to reconsider the amendments made to the nationality law, while the Egyptian Foreign Ministry has not issued any comment on the growing humanitarian crisis in India because of that law. The…

The decline in external demand for Egypt’s labour raises fears

The decline in the demand for Egyptian labour and the delay in its ranking globally has raised growing popular concerns, especially as Egypt has for decades held a monopoly on exporting labour to Arab markets and workers were an important…

A military funeral for Mubarak: Al-Sisi avenges the January revolution

The Egyptian regime held a prestigious military funeral attended by the president and senior officials who followed the funeral of the ousted president to his place of burial, two days after his death aged 91. The regime dealt with Mubarak…

Why does the world not believe the Egyptian regime about coronavirus?

The Egyptian Minister of Health has maintained that Egypt is completely free from coronavirus infections, and confirmed that her ministry had examined 1,443 people suspected of catching the virus, and that it had found no positive result except in only…

Egypt’s president pardons police officers who tortured and killed citizens

A few days ago, the Official Gazette of Egypt published the names of 135 prisoners who had been pardoned by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on the occasion of the commemoration of the January 25 Revolution and Police Day. The amnesty…

Palestinian writer Besan Edwan deported from Egypt

Egyptian authorities have deported the Palestinian writer Besan Edwan, who has been living for years in Egypt, and refused to renew her residence. Lawyer Khaled Ali said Besan went to the police station a week ago to renew her residency….

Egypt signs Renaissance Dam agreement

Egypt expressed, on Saturday, its dissatisfaction with Addis Ababa’s absence from the negotiations over the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam that are being held in the United States. Three days before, Ethiopia demanded that a tour, scheduled during the last two days…

Egypt’s health minister plans trip to China

After a media controversy over coronavirus in Egypt, the Ministry of Health has declared that two people were infected with the virus. The Ministry of Health issued a statement saying that the first person improved and left the hospital and…