WHO calls on Egypt to revise COVID-19 data
The World Health Organisation has called on Egypt to revise officially announced data of numbers of infections and deaths due to COVID-19 in Egypt. “The numbers of COVID-19 patients and deaths issued by the Egyptian ministry of health needs to…
GERD negotiations: The failure reflects the impotence of al-Sisi’s Egypt
The Egyptian foreign ministry announced the failure of the ministerial meeting between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia regarding the resumption of negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, after Sudan assigned the task of suggesting resolutions of points of conflict to…
The escalating suffering of peasants and workers in Egypt is alarming
Over the past few weeks, in the Egyptian agricultural provinces, peasants threw the surplus potato harvest into canals and fed their cattle with it. Those scenes resulted from the sharp decrease in the price of potatoes from EGP 2,000 a…
Egypt builds EGP 360bn high-speed railway during peak of economic crisis
Egypt has announced a project for a high-speed electric train extending 1,000 kilometres across the country to be implemented by Siemens with a cost estimated at EGP 360 billion. “The project is to start immediately to connect Ain Sokhna city…
Hanafy Gebaly rewarded with the presidency of parliament for conceding Tiran and Sanafir
Chancellor Hanafy Gebaly was elected, on Tuesday, as the speaker of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Egyptian parliament, winning 508 votes out of 576. The election of Gebaly came after he was nominated for the position…
The fall of the Iron and Steel Co: From leadership to liquidation
“An unjust decision,” said Khaled El-Feki, a member of the Board of Directors of the Holding Company for Metal Industries, commenting on the decision to liquidate the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company. The extraordinary general assembly of Egyptian Iron and…
Handball World Cup: Polishing the regime’s image through sports
“The Egyptian government wanted the World Handball Championship to be a project to polish the regime’s image.” With these words, the Danish newspaper Politiken described the World Handball Championship that Cairo is hosting from January 13 to 31. The newspaper…
Double standards in the Mubarak regime’s prisons and the opposition’s detention centres
I found a large gym and spa… I was standing next to the small window so that I could breathe. We were playing football and Habib al-Adly [the former interior minister] was counting my incorrect penalty kicks… We are forbidden…
After the oxygen crisis, where did the funds allocated to confront corona go?
Egypt woke up a week ago to the tragic death of six COVID-19 patients due to a lack of oxygen, amid accusations by the health authorities of negligence and questions about allocations to the health sector, which is suffering from…
Shocking statements of released musician reveals injustice in Egypt’s prisons
Statements of musician Hany Mehanna, in which he revealed the prison conditions of high-profile officials and businessmen, circulated on social media causing a shock. He revealed that they led a luxurious life in prison, while thousands of detainees have been…
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