Month: March 2021

What is the fate of Egypt’s opposition channels in Turkey?

“Moving to a safer environment, even if it is more expensive, as well as establishing cheap media platforms on the Internet.” With these words, a prominent Brotherhood leader revealed the status of Egyptian opposition channels broadcasting from Turkey if pressure…

Who will pay the price of the Suez Canal blockage?

While the world’s attention is directed towards the floatation of the container ship in the Suez Canal, talks are circulating about indemnification and whether it will be for the delayed ships or the Suez Canal. The disruption of navigation in…

Egypt’s incidents: Human mistakes or political disasters?

During the past few days, Egypt has suffered three major accidents and many other incidents. Two passenger trains collided in the city of Tahta in the Sohag Governorate (south of the country) in the most catastrophic accident. Thirty-two people were…

Death toll from Cairo building collapse rises, investigations reveal government inaction

The death toll of the collapse of a residential building in Gesr Suez, Cairo, has risen to 25 deaths and 25 injuries including critical cases. The civil protection teams found nine corpses under the rubble. On the other hand, the…

The Suez Canal crisis: Strategic effects on a global scale

The crisis of the Ever Given ship stranded in the Suez Canal has come to the attention of the global media, as it reveals its strategic importance in running the global trade flow especially since it is located on the…

Egypt’s railways turn out to be a gate to death

The Egyptian Ministry of Health announced the death of 32 citizens and the injury of 66 others in a train collision Friday in Sohag Governorate, southern Egypt. The record of the Egyptian Railways Authority is full of dozens of accidents…

‘Guardianship is my right’: Egyptian women revolt against taboos

“I cannot travel… I cannot take my daughter out of school… I cannot open a bank account for my son.” These are some of the problems that women of all ages and social conditions in Egypt encounter every day. These…

Non-union journalists forgotten in Egypt’s prisons

After three years of silence, hoping to get her detained husband out but to no avail, Asmaa Mohamed, the wife of the Egyptian journalist Mohamed Saeed, spoke about his suffering in his cell and the media’s discard of him and…

Giant ship runs aground in Suez Canal blocking navigation amid silence from Egypt’s media and authorities

Navigation in the Suez Canal was paralysed after a giant cargo ship run aground in the south of the canal. The giant ship hit the bottom of the new branch of the Suez Canal on Tuesday, as a result of…

Not prisons but tombs: Egypt’s detainees die from medical negligence and bad conditions

Since the coup against Mohamed Morsi, the first elected civilian president in Egypt in 2013, Egyptian prisons have been crowded with large numbers of opponents of the authorities, hundreds of whom died due to what human rights activists and opponents…