Amendment to law paves way for privatisation of state-owned companies
The Egyptian parliament approved on Wednesday to amend law no. 203 of year 1991 of the public business sector companies, and referred it to the committee of...
Government demands to protect Egypt’s antiquities abroad hypocritical
Cairo does not have a good reputation in the field of antiquities smuggling, but despite this, it demanded Spain look after a pharaonic temple that the late...
Cairo hints it’s not satisfied with US Renaissance Dam agreement
The Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, has acknowledged that the agreement reached under American auspices on the Renaissance Dam, which Ethiopia is building on the Nile, is...
COVID-19 strikes Egypt as 1mn lose their jobs
The National Planning Institute affiliated with the Egyptian Ministry of Planning revealed that 824,000 citizens have already lost their jobs since the start of the coronavirus crisis...
The Rab’a sit-in slaughter: 7 years without investigation or trial
Seven years have passed since the biggest massacre Egyptians have witnessed in their modern and contemporary history, which began with a political dispute and a power struggle...
Coronavirus outbreak in the New Administrative Capital
General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has postponed the activities and inaugurations of major national projects that were scheduled during the current year until next year, including moving the...
The regime cuts the poor’s salaries and protects the rich
Egyptian activists have attacked the Egyptian government for agreeing to a draft law that deducts one per cent of the salaries of workers in the state and...
Coronavirus in Egypt: Quarantine hospitals fed up and the epidemic is in the third...
Ahmed El-Sobky, head of the General Authority for Health Care, Assistant Egyptian Minister of Health, warned of the increasing number of infections with Coronavirus (COVID 19), pointing...
A moment of terror: Audio recording captures shouts of Egyptian detainees
The human rights platform We Record has published a leaked audio recording which captures detainees
screaming and knocking on the doors of cells to save an ill detainee...
Reverse decision: Egypt reduces curfew hours despite increase in corona infections
Minister of State for Information Osama Heikal has said that the cabinet decided to reduce the partial curfew for an additional hour, to start at 8pm and...