Prices of aluminium products rise by 20%

On Tuesday, Sherif Abdel Moneim, secretary of the Housewares Division at the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, said that the prices of aluminium products rose by 20% in...

Egypt: Coronavirus infections exceed 1,000

The total number of cases of coronavirus in Egypt has risen to 1,173, with 78 deaths, while 247 have recovered and been discharged from isolation hospitals. Fears...

Price of electricity rises for seventh time

The Ministry of Electricity has confirmed its commitment to implement the annual increase in electricity bills next July, as part of the final stage of the IMF programme to...

4 new COVID-19 deaths among doctors brings total to 533

Within 24 hours, four new doctors died from the coronavirus, which brings the total of victims among Egyptian doctors to 533. The General Syndicate of Physicians mourned:...

Official instructions to Egypt’s media to limit coverage of COVID-19

Egyptian journalists have informed Egypt Watch that sovereign authorities have issued supreme instructions to all official and private channels to reduce the news covering the crisis of...

Egypt’s FM summons Israeli ambassador to protest events in Jerusalem

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry summoned the Israeli ambassador in Cairo, Amira Oron, in protest over "the recent violations in Jerusalem." According to a statement by the Egyptian...

Hamdok explores Ethiopia’s position on the Renaissance Dam negotiations

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok informed Cairo that he would communicate with the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to...

Ousted President Hosni Mubarak dies

Ousted President Hosni Mubarak died on Tuesday in the Saudi-German Hospital in Cairo at the age of 91. Mubarak died four days after entering intensive care after...

Egypt authorities refuse to hand over bodies of executed defendants

The families of the relatives of some of those executed in the case of storming the Kerdasa Police Station revealed that the security services have so far been reluctant...

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...