Egypt transport imports worth millions of USD in one month
The Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics announced that Egypt imported “buses, microbuses and minibuses” in 2020 worth $31.1 million, double the equivalent amount last year. In May 2019 transport imports were worth $15.5 million. Statement Data, issued…
Egypt’s parliament discusses toughening penalties for bullying and harassment
The Egyptian House of Representatives is discussing new amendments to toughening penalties and criminal procedures to confront the phenomena of bullying and sexual harassment. The Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee in the Egyptian parliament approved amendments submitted by the government,…
A mandatory irrigation system: EGP 100 mn fines within 3 months
The Egyptian government has started applying a compulsory modern irrigation system on hundreds of thousands of cultivated feddans in Egypt to minimise the amounts of water used for agriculture in an effort to overcome the water scarcity the country is…
Five years after the New Suez Canal still no benefits
Only $1.3 billion is the additional output of the new Suez Canal, five years after the opening of a bypass, which sparked widespread controversy and cost Egypt about $8 billion. These figures were revealed by Osama Rabei, head of the…
Despite the deficiency 36,000 teachers have been fired
Thousands of Egyptian activists launched an electronic campaign calling for the return of 36,000 teachers to their work after the Ministry of Education ended their service last year. There was a state of anger among teachers whose temporary contracts ended….
High school grievances: The lost dreams of students
Every year, following the announcement of high school results in Egypt, the Ministry of Education begins to open the door for students’ grievances, so they can object to their grades in the hope of joining their dream college. Grievance committees…
Could the Egyptian regime stop the “doctors’ slaughter”?
Amid successive campaigns to stop the executions in Egypt against political opponents, activists launched a campaign to demand the rescue of two doctors who were sentenced to death in the case known in the media as Shabab al-Mansoura, which is…
Revenge crimes in Upper Egypt: The incapable judicial system exacerbates the crisis
A horrific murder of a student at the Faculty of Dentistry has shocked Egyptian society and turned into a hashtag demanding the arrest of the perpetrators and that they be brought to trial under the title “Where is Dr. Islam’s…
The Egyptian Stock Exchange is bleeding
Constant bleeding, huge losses of billions of pounds, and delaying the offering of companies’ shares… this has been the case of the Egyptian Stock Exchange since the beginning of 2020 until now, as the stock market suffers from a loss…
Al-Sisi’s fake projects have wasted billions of pounds
General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has directed a number of projects that will cost about EGP 30 billion ($1.88 billion). The new projects are concentrated, in particular, on expanding the establishment of private universities affiliated with government universities by using the…
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