Egypt’s poultry breeding sector faces a massive crisis
On Monday, a member of the General Federation of Poultry Producers in Egypt, Musa Saqr, said that about two million workers out of four million working in the poultry breeding sector had been laid off as a result of the…
39,000 arrests and judicial prosecutions on political grounds in Egypt since 2018, says Transparency Center
On Sunday, the Transparency Research and Documentation Center reported that the Egyptian authorities carried out 39,000 arrests and judicial prosecutions on political grounds from January 2018 to January 2023. The report also documented 104 deaths among those arrested or re-arrested,…
Egypt Starts Debut Islamic Debt Sale as Bond Payment Looms
On Tuesday, Bloomberg published a report on the debt situation in Egypt, stating: Egypt started selling its first Islamic debt as the North African nation wrestled with a foreign-currency crunch. The three-year dollar sukuk is expected to price on Tuesday,…
Rights groups call on Italian authorities to take a firm stand on Giulio Regeni
Rights groups have issued a joint statement calling on the Italian authorities to take a firm stand on Giulio Regeni’s case, expressing concern over recent developments. The Egyptian Front for Human Rights and the Egyptian Platform for Human Rights called…
Egyptian court orders detention of poet for criticizing price hikes
An Egyptian court has ordered the detention of a poet for 15 days pending investigations after the Public Prosecution Office charged him with spreading false news and inciting violence over posts criticizing price hikes on Facebook. Lawyer Mohamed Ramadan said…
Recurrent closures of Sphinx Airport: Corruption and poor planning dwell in Egypt’s public investments
Only three months after its reopening, the Egyptian government closed Sphinx International Airport (west of Cairo) to international and domestic flights for maintenance work. This is the second time the airport has been closed for maintenance since it was built…
At gunpoint: Egyptian journalists prepare for union elections
On May 1, 2016, it was a terrible day for the Egyptian Journalists Union, as the security forces stormed the syndicate for the first time to arrest the journalists Amr Badr and Mahmoud El-Sakka, on the background of their sit-in…
Egyptian police arrest nine workers for aborting Kiriazi strike
Egyptian security forces have arrested nine Kiriazi workers on the background of their participation in a protest to demand an amendment to the wage structure within the large company. Sources have said that the Public Prosecution decided to detain the…
TikToker arrested in Egypt for mocking high cost of meat
On Tuesday, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior issued a statement stating that it had arrested a person named Mohamed El-Fatla after he published a video saying that he had opened a butcher shop to sell meat in instalments, in a…
Child labour in Egypt exacerbated by the economic crisis
Two Egyptian children were killed a few days ago, and 40 other children were injured when a pickup truck carrying them to work on a farm in the Ismailia governorate overturned. The accident is not the first of its kind,…
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