Egypt’s cotton exports stopped
Mohamed Youssef, a member of the Supreme Council for Textile Industries, has said that Egypt’s exports of raw cotton and clothing stopped completely during the past week, as a result of a significant reduction in demand by international companies for…
Egypt: Guardian correspondent forced out of Egypt
The Guardian newspaper has revealed that the Egyptian security forces pressured their correspondent in Egypt Ruth Michaelson to leave the country after they published an article by her saying that the number of coronavirus infections in Egypt exceeds official figures….
Ethiopia appoints its former foreign minister as ambassador to Egypt
Ethiopia has announced the appointment of its former Foreign Minister Marcos Tekle, as its new ambassador to Egypt, to succeed Ambassador Dina Mofti. It has also appointed a new ambassador to Khartoum, Yelbital Emero. Tekle is considered one of the…
Capital Economics: Egypt’s economy shrinks 1.3% in 2020
Capital Economics predicts that the Egyptian economy will shrink 1.3% this fiscal year due to the coronavirus outbreak, while it expects the growth rate to rise to 7.8 per cent next fiscal year. It expected that the growth rate of…
Egypt: Major traffic in the first days of lockdown
Social media users in Egypt have shared photos and videos of the metro and trains crowded with citizens on the first day of the curfew. The main streets and roads were paralysed with traffic in the last hours before the…
Egypt: Major rise in food prices
Commodity prices have increased significantly with the start of the partial curfew, driven by an increase in demand and a decrease in production. The price of rice has increased by 35 per cent and the price per kilo ranged between…
Fitch Ratings expects a shortage of cash reserves for Egypt
Fitch Ratings credit agency expects Egypt’s foreign exchange reserves to erode due to the financial implications of the novel coronavirus. The agency said the corona crisis will affect the Egyptian economy, and will cause a decline in its gross domestic…
Egypt: Security forces forcibly hide and torture children, says report
Human Rights Watch and Baladi, a human rights organisation, have issued a joint report entitled “No one cared he was a child,” in which they said the Egyptian police, the National Security Agency, and military officials arbitrarily arrested, forcibly disappeared,…
26 health care workers infected with coronavirus
Ibrahim al–Zayyat, member of the General Union of Doctors, has said that the total number of coronavirusinfections among health care workers in Egypt has reached 26 so far, including six doctors, one pharmacist, seven nurses, four health monitors, five laboratory…
3 Egypt army leaders die from coronavirus, director of intelligence in quarantine
On Monday the military spokesman announced the death of Major General Shafie Abd al-Halim, Director of the Major Projects Department of the Engineering Authority, and Major General Khaled Shaltout, Director of the Authority’s Water Department, as a result of their…
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