2,500 workers from Universal Group strike protesting non-disbursement of wages
Some 2,500 workers from Universal Group, a manufacturer of home appliances, in the industrial area of the 6th of October City, have gone on strike, protesting against the irregular disbursement of wages, cutting 50 per cent of their wages, non-disbursement…
Banque Misr: The Egyptian governmental bank takes the greatest loan in its history
Banque Misr, the second largest governmental bank in Egypt, is preparing to acquire the biggest loan in its history, $700 million, in order to pay off a previous $550 million loan taken by the bank in December 2018. The initial…
Salama Abdel Aziz: The 35th political detainee to die in Egypt in 2021
We Record and the Egyptian Network for Human Rights said the political detainee, Salama Abel Aziz, from Alweddi village in Al-Saff, Giza, died, on Saturday, in Tora Prison due to bad detention conditions that caused his health to deteriorate after…
Sisi: Egypt among the driest in the world and its people live below the water poverty line
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said that Egypt is considered among the driest countries all over the world, and its people are living below the water poverty line. Sisi added, in his recorded speech before the UN 76th General Assembly, that the…
UN Security Council’s statement on the Renaissance Dam: Has Egypt won?
Last Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council issued a statement urging Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to resume negotiations on the Renaissance Dam, under the auspices of the African Union, with the aim of “putting forward a final formula for an…
COVID-19’s fourth wave invades Egypt amid government inaction
Egypt witnessed a significant increase in the number of COVID-19 infections during the past two weeks, in an indication of the beginning of the fourth wave of the virus’ spread in Egypt, amid government laxity in imposing precautionary closure measures…
Amnesty International: Egypt’s NSA uses systemic violations to intimidate activists into silence
On Wednesday, Amnesty International said that the National Security Agency in Egypt uses systemic violations against human rights and political activists. “Egypt’s feared National Security Agency is increasingly using a well-honed pattern of repeated summons, coercive questioning, arbitrary detention and torture –…
National Security Agency: Sisi’s tool for repressing political activists
“I was devastated and terrified; after the last time I was summoned I decided to leave Egypt at any cost. Before that I had never thought of leaving Egypt. I thought once the court probation period was over that I…
WHO warns COVID-19 cases are rising in Egypt
The World Health Organisation has warned of the rise of COVID-19 infections in five Middle East countries, including Egypt. WHO’s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Doctor Ahmed Al-Manzari, said that Egypt, the Palestinian territories, Somalia, Syria and Yemen have…
NSA bargains with political detainees offering release in exchange for false testimonies
Mada Masr news website reported that officers from the National Security Agency began from August to hold meetings with political detainees in some prisons including Minya, Tora and Wadi Al-Natron, to convince them to quit any political activities and to…
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