The Delta variant has been in Egypt for a month and a half, but government officials are lying
For months, health officials in Egypt continued to deny that the Delta variant has entered the country. Dr. Mohammed Awad Taj El-Din, Adviser to the President of the Republic for Health Affairs, Dr. Ashraf Hatem, Chairman of the Health Committee…
Private sector work in Egypt is masked slavery
Recent reports issued by the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics revealed a decline of the weekly wage of workers in the private sector at 13 per cent in 2020 compared to 2019, while the weekly wage of workers…
Human rights organisations demand release of detained journalist Tawfik Ghanem
On Saturday, 11 human rights organisations demanded the immediate and unconditional release of journalist Tawfik Ghanem, who finished 100 days in pretrial detention in May 2021. In a joint statement, the organisations held the Egyptian authorities responsible for Ghanem’s wellbeing,…
Egyptian military extends its economy by seizing right to exploit parking lots and restaurants
The governor of Cairo, General Khaled Abdel Aal, and the governor of Giza, General Ahmed Rashed, approved giving the National Company for Constructing, Developing and Managing Roads, owned by the Egyptian military, a monopoly over car parks in the streets…
Abdel Basit Abdel Daim Political detainee left to die without treatment in prison
The political detainee Abdel Basit Abdel Daim, 59, has died in Hadra Prison in Alexandria because of medical negligence, said the Egyptian Network for Human Rights. Abdel Daim, who was working as manager of the Engineers Syndicate in Qalyubia, was…
Over 15 Egyptians attempting to reach Italy drown off Libyan coast
On Sunday 15 Egyptians, including a woman and a child, drowned off Libya’s west coast. They were on board a boat carrying about 70 people destined for the Italian coast. The boat sunk off the coast of the Libyan city,…
ISIS attacks Egyptian military checkpoint killing two rankers
Two Egyptian rankers were killed and another injured in an attack by Wilayet Sinai, the ISIS local branch, in Rafah, North Sinai. Military sources said that the rankers were shot dead in an attack on a checkpoint affiliated to the…
Egyptian navy shoots Palestinian fisherman near Gaza shores
The Egyptian navy shot, on Wednesday, a Palestinian fisherman near Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian sources, an Egyptian military gunboat opened fire on several Palestinian fishing boats sailing in the common zone between Gaza and…
Egyptian authorities eliminate Al-Azhar’s independence
Days after issuing a presidential decree declaring Dar Al-Ifta a “special body,” which made it exempt from legal texts that determined the mechanism used to select its senior officials and their retirement age, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a decision…
Egypt continues to depend on treasury bills to finance governmental spending
The Central Bank of Egypt declared, on Monday, the sale of $622 million worth of treasury bills, with an average interest rate of 1.396 per cent. The sale came in line with the increase of financial needs of the governmental…
Recent Comments