Coronavirus implications on the economy exacerbated
The Egyptian Stock Exchange witnessed in a trading session on Sunday a sharp decline with a collective decline of all indicators. Under pressure from sales of Arab and foreign investors, the EGX 30 Index fell by 9.09 per cent, and…
Coronavirus cases increase to 126, strict precautions taken
The Ministry of Health has announced the discovery of 16 new cases of coronavirus, eight Egyptians and eight foreigners of different nationalities, all of whom were in contact with positive cases that were previously discovered and announced, with the exception…
Demands for Egypt’s detainees to be released as coronavirus spreads
Several human rights organisations in Egypt have called for the immediate release of political detainees and prisoners for fear of an outbreak of coronavirus in Egypt’s prisons, especially after a number of countries in the world have done this, including…
70 cleaning workers arrested in Nasr City after protest
The Nasr City Prosecution issued a decision to release the cleaning workers of the sixth district in Nasr City after investigating them in the charge of gathering in front of district presidency building. The security services had arrested 70 workers,…
Conditioned release prevented in cases of demonstration
Parliament has finally approved a draft law submitted by the government, which aims to prevent the conditioned release of those convicted of crimes of gathering and demonstration, terrorism and drug trafficking. The draft law included an article prohibiting the conditional…
Egypt is the third in the world in arms imports
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) revealed that Egypt ranked third in the world in the import of arms and military equipment in the period from 2015 to 2019, with its arms imports reaching about 5.58% of the global market,…
The death of the second case of coronavirus
The Ministry of Health announced that the number of cases of coronavirus inside the country had risen to eighty, after registering thirteen new infections, including six cases without any symptoms, and one case that had died. Ministry spokesman Khaled Mujahid…
Egypt’s infrastructure collapses when it rains
Egypt has witnessed an unprecedented wave of bad weather since 1994, which was represented by heavy rains in all governorates of the Republic, accompanied by storms, thunder, lightning and torrential rain in some places. Rain and storms caused the death…
Ziad al-Olaimi sentenced to a year imprisonment for an interview with BBC!
The Cairo Criminal Court decided to imprison the activist Ziad Al-Olaimi for a year with a fine of 20,000 pounds, on charges of defaming Egypt and publishing false news, in a television interview on BBC during which he spoke about…
A new act to facilitate the confiscation of funds of political opponents
President Sisi issued Law 14 of 2020 amending Law No. 8 of 2015 regulating lists of terrorist entities and terrorists. The amendment included a new article stipulating the freezing of funds or other assets owned by the terrorist entity, or…
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