Month: October 2021

Osama Askar: Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appoints the controversial general as the military’s chief-of-staff

Tuesday, afternoon, Egypt’s state-sponsored TV channels as well as Arab news TV channels put a red screen strap declaring an urgent news reading, “The Egyptian president Abdel Fattah appoints the Major General Osama Roshdy as the Egyptian military’s chief-of-staff.” Osama…

Robot Ai-Da and the Egyptian Strategy for Human Rights: A New Challenge

On the 11th of last September, the Egyptian regime initiated the National Strategy for Human Rights anticipating the regular visit to Washington DC to attend the meetings of the United Nations General Assembly. It seems that the regime is sending…

Scandal in Egypt’s ministry of health: Zayed has heart attack after unveiling systemic corruption managed by her office

Monday, the Egyptian minister of health and population, Hala Zayed, returned to her office in the ministry’s premise located in Cairo’s downtown after attending the commencement of military colleges and institutes’ graduates with Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. But in the ministry,…

Minister of water resources: Egypt gets over 90% of its water resources from the Nile

The Egyptian minister of irrigation and water resources, Mohamed Abdel Aaty, said that Nile water flow to the country declined after the operation and filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as Egypt gets over 90% of its water from…

COP26 summit: Egyptian exiles call on UK to rescind invitation to Sisi

In a Letter, the political refugees warned that Egypt’s government could use the environmental summit to ‘whitewash’ its human rights abuses record. A group of Egyptian political exiles wrote to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking him to withdraw an invitation to President Abdel…

Poverty in Egypt: Numbers speak

The controversy surrounding the movie “Feathers”, which was attacked by mouthpieces belonging to the regime of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, claiming that it harmed Egypt’s reputation, due to its exposure to the difficult living conditions of the poor, raises many…

Egypt closed: Egyptian authorities prevent Palestinian artists from visiting Egypt

A few days ago, the Egyptian authorities prevented the Palestinian director, residing in London, Said Zagha, from entering the country in order to attend the activities of the El Gouna Film Festival, and detained him in a room at Cairo…

Two students die in the beginning of the educational year due to congestion in public schools

Since the beginning of the new educational year in October, two Egyptian students died from overcrowding in public schools leading to quarrels over the desks of the classes. The first one was Eid Mohamed Helmy Shehata, a 13-year-old student in…

Popular campaign formed against new insurance and pensions law in Egypt

Syndicate men, journalists and lawyers have issued a statement demanding the new insurance and pensions law (148 of 2019) be amended. The campaign said that the law wastes the savings of most Egyptian workers, who pay for the insurance, and…

Workers of CID Chemicals strike against low profit disbursement

The Centre for Trade Unions and Workers’ Services expressed solidarity with the workers of the Chemical Industries Development Company (CID) after the board of directors decided to freeze the work. The CID board’s decision came after the workers announced a…