One of the largest cargo container ships in the world has turned sideways and blocked all traffic in Egypt’s Suez Canal, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic. The MV [ More … ]
While almost all world countries are honoring doctors and celebrating medical professions, Egypt is jailing its doctors, amid hiking numbers of coronavirus infections. [ More … ]
Covid-19 Vaccine Makers See Egypt as Crucial Launchpad, where Cairo offers platform to deliver vaccine to hundreds of millions of people across Middle East and Africa Egypt is emerging as a critical proving ground for [ More … ]
Thousands of Israelis have protested across the country for the 15th week in a row, flouting a new law meant to curb anti-government demonstrations during a coronavirus lockdown. The street protests on Saturday and into [ More … ]
The first coronavirus vaccine in the world has been registered in Russia, the country’s President Vladimir Putin announced today morning. The vaccine, developed by the Gamaleya National Research Center, has an official registration with the [ 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 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 … ]
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 … ]
Egyptian authorities have sparked controversy on social networking sites over issuance of a ban on addressing four currently circulated topics: Sinai, Renaissance Dam, Coronavirus, and Libya. Egypt’s highest media regulatory body, an official state arm [ More … ]
Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said on Monday that the real numbers of infections in Egypt could be more than 100,000. During a presentation that showed modelled the spread [ More … ]
Egypt Medical Syndicate issued a statement accusing the ministry of health of full negligence for its crew, not availing tests kits or PPE! Some doctors started resigning already! The syndicate said if current measures continue, [ More … ]
The Egyptian opposition movement, Batel (VOID), said that it has started receiving reports of injuries and deaths due to the new Coronavirus in Egypt since May 3, noting that it has received “since this date [ More … ]
The new coronavirus is believed to be spreading throughout Yemen where the health care system “has in effect collapsed”, the United Nations said on Friday, appealing for urgent funding. “Aid agencies in Yemen are operating [ More … ]
Egypt to deduct 1% of state employees’ income for one year amid coronavirus crisis. Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly approved on Wednesday a draft law cutting the net monthly income all of state employees by [ More … ]
Yemen, already pushed to the brink of famine by a five-year war, could see a “catastrophic” food security situation due to the coronavirus pandemic and lower remittances from the Gulf, the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture [ More … ]
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