Iran hackers attack Egypt’s Ministry of Health website
The official website of Egypt’s Ministry of Health has been attacked by Iranian hackers. The hackers were able to control the home page of the site, and published a picture of the Iranian flag, accompanied by another of a man…
Government halts land sales amid real estate recession
The government has announced that the sale of land in the first stage of the new administrative capital project will be halted, due to the real estate market recession. They have only marketed 44 per cent of the land from…
Egypt court mulls removing Abdel Fotouh from terror list
The Court of Cassation is reconsidering a ruling which added head of the Strong Egypt Party Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, his son, and six others, to the terror list after the opposition politician filed an appeal. A criminal court in…
German opera house apologises for awarding peace medal to al-Sisi
Hans-Joachim Frey, artistic director of the Semperopernball Opera House in Dresden, has apologised for awarding Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the Order of St. George Medal, admitting that it was a big mistake. “We would like to apologise for the…
Editors instructed not to say ‘deal of the century’
Officers of the Egyptian Intelligence together with editors-in-chiefs of Egyptian newspapers and TV news shows have received instructions via a Whatsapp group on how to report on Trump’s peace proposal, known as “the deal of the century.” Almanassa news site…
SSSP renews custody of blogger ‘Mohamed Oxygen’
The Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) has renewed the detention of blogger Mohamed Ibrahim, known as Oxygen, referring to his web blog Oxygen Egypt, for 15 days in case No. 1356 of 2019 on charges of publishing false news and…
Egypt Air suspends flights to China
Egypt Air announced it suspended flights to and from the Chinese city of Hangzhou on February 1, and will suspend the flights to Beijing and Guangzhou from February 4 until further notice, to counter the spread of coronavirus in China….
532 violations against journalists in 2019
The Arab Observatory for Media Freedom has issued its annual report on violations of media freedom in Egypt in 2019, monitoring 532 violations of media freedom and the press during the first 10 months of 2019, cementing the dominance of…
Debt raises budget deficit to 3.8%
Egyptian Finance Minister Mohamed Maait has said that the budget deficit in the first half of the current fiscal year rose to 3.8 per cent, compared to 3.6 in the first half of the last fiscal year 2018/2019. Maait attributed…
Increase in Ministry of Health resignations over administrative abuse
The Secretary of the Egyptian Medicines Syndicate Mohamed Abdel Hamid has said that the number of doctors resigning from the Ministry of Health because of administrative abuse is increasing. Abdel Hamid said that the number of doctors who resigned from…
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