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 … ]
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 … ]
The Libyan parliament called on the government to be at full readiness against “aggression” from Egypt, denouncing recent comments by Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi that his army could intervene in the war-torn country, reported Anadolu Agency. [ 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 … ]
Activists decry a $1.2bn arms sale of two frigates to Egypt even the 2016 murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni near Cairo remains unresolved. Meanwhile, Regeni’s family feels ‘betrayed’ by Italy government over the move [ More … ]
The first anniversary of the passing of late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is an occasion for reflection and soul searching. It evokes memories of his life and times, which culminated as Egypt’s first democratically elected [ More … ]
Ethiopia has been accused of ‘intransigence’ which has to lead to the stalling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations, Egypt’s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation said. Mohamed Abdel Ati ruled out a [ More … ]
Egypt has maintained its policy of detaining journalists on charges of spreading ‘false news’. The country has already been named the third worst jailer of journalists by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Egyptian authorities detained [ More … ]
Egypt police raided the houses of two uncles of an Egyptian-American activist who has recently sued a former Egyptian prime minister in U.S. court, accusing him of crimes against humanity, an international rights group said [ More … ]
The Egyptian regime fabricates death reason in official documents of COVID-19 deceased doctors to avoid considering them as “martyrs”. The Sisi regime has reportedly been fabricating reasons of death of deceased doctors written in the [ More … ]
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