The move comes as the latest round of talks between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on the contentious dam ended with no agreement. Egypt’s request for urgent intervention by the UN Security Council, sources said Ethiopia [ More … ]
A huge fire erupted at the Cairo-Ismailia desert road when a major gas pipe exploded resulting in major casualties yet to be announced by the ministry of interior. The General Administration of Civil Protection in Cairo sent [ More … ]
A prominent Egyptian journalist, Mohamed Monir, who had been jailed on charges of broadcasting false news died of COVID-19 on Monday, raising fears that the coronavirus may be spreading undetected in Egypt’s notoriously crowded prisons. [ More … ]
US Democratic candidate Joe Biden has said there will be no more “blank checks for Trump’s favorite dictator” in a widely shared Twitter post. The comments come not long after the release of the dual [ More … ]
The amendments require current and former officers to seek the approval of top military council before running for election Egypt’s parliament has approved amendments to a law that would restrict current and former members of [ More … ]
While the government tried to bury evidence of the outbreak of coronavirus all over the country, the Egyptian activists on the social networking sites forced it to confess, stated a report by Ola Salem in [ More … ]
Egyptian prosecution orders imprisonment of a young doctor for writing a post about the government’s neglect of efforts exerted by Egyptian medical staff, criticizing PM comments on doctors. The Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have arrested doctors who are speaking out about the deaths of frontline health-care workers! The healthcare workers complained about a lack of hospital protective gear, criticized the state’s response to the pandemic or [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia and Israel do not share official diplomatic ties, but the two countries have started to normalize relations in recent years, particularly in terms of Iranian foreign policy In the latest display of warming [ More … ]
Badrawy Private Hospital said the blaze was caused by an electrical fault in an air conditioning generator in intensive care unit A fire at Badrawy Hospital, a private hospital located northeast of the Egyptian coastal [ More … ]
Ethiopia will start filling its $5 billion hydroelectric dam on the Nile River in two weeks, the Ethiopian government said, according to Anadolu Agency. The announcement came on Saturday, one day after an online summit [ More … ]
The loan will focus first on health and social spending The IMF noted Cairo had ‘a strong track record’ of implementing economic reforms! The IMF board on Friday approved a one-year, $5.2 billion financing package [ More … ]
A UN official has said that he was disappointed because the UN Security Council is not ready to help ease tensions over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, reported the New Khaleej. The UNESCO Chair on International [ More … ]
The Egyptian Prime Minister had stated in a statement that the rise in numbers of COVID-19 deaths was due to the absence and “unpunctuality of some doctors”. The Egyptian Medical Syndicate on Tuesday decried remarks [ More … ]
Prominent Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif sister of imprisoned activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has been abducted outside the prosecutor general’s office in Cairo, according to a relative. Seif had been visiting the building to lodge an [ More … ]
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