Exclusive: Corruption scandals in the military overthrow high profile officers
Exclusive Egyptian judicial and military sources have revealed to Egypt Watch that a concealed clash is taking place between the Egyptian Armed Forces and a number of judicial authorities on the one hand, and the Administrative Control Authority (ACA) on…
Egypt police bully a group of Chinese people, accuse them of barbequing snakes
Egyptian security forces have arrested a group of Chinese people after receiving reports that they were barbecuing snakes in a rented villa in Madinaty, northeast Cairo. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in late December in the Chinese city of Wuhan,…
Quarantine fugitives spark panic in Egypt
As Egyptians try to protect their families from being infected with Covid-19 fugitives from medical quarantine are causing panic in the country because of the possibility they are spreading the virus in the country. Observers say the numbers of people…
Coronavirus storms Egypt’s army
The Egyptian army has declared the death of two major generals from COVID -19, but the official statement was too brief, simply mentioning that the two major generals were infected during the effort to fight the pandemic without any details…
Curfew penalties, the government’s new way to collect money in Egypt
While Ahmed Mahmoud was preparing to close his barbers, Egyptian police forces fined him EGP 4,000 ($255) for violating the curfew. Mahmoud says that he did not violate the curfew, which begins at 7pm, and pointed out that passers-by were…
Coronavirus in Egypt: The worst is yet to come
While workers and small business owners in Egypt expressed their outrage at the repercussions of the novel coronavirus because of the losses caused by the curfew, Egyptian officials have warned that the worst is yet to come. The Minister of…
Egypt’s foreign exchange reserves erode after financial implications of coronavirus
Fitch, the global credit rating agency, has said that Egypt’s foreign exchange reserves have begun to erode due to the financial implications of the novel coronavirus (COVID 19), which may cause a new wave of the Egyptian pound’s decline against…
How Egypt’s regime hid the number of coronavirus infections
Once a group of Canadian researchers announced their estimates of the true numbers of people infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the Egyptian regime began to deny those estimates. The Egyptian regime says that the number of people infected has…
Exclusive: Coronavirus ignites conflicts inside Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church
Thousands of Coptic activists have caused great controversy in the past weeks, calling on the Coptic Orthodox Church to stop the ritual of Holy Communion during mass, especially after a priest, pastor, and two Egyptian deacons coming from a trip…
Coronavirus: Ethiopia’s latest reason for boycotting the Renaissance Dam negotiations
Egyptian sources expected that any negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia, will be postponed until after next summer due to the novel coronavirus. Egyptian sources said that Egypt and Ethiopia were not ready…
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