Unknown attackers assaulted seven Copts on Tuesday as they were going to the al-Mahraq monastery in Assiut’s Qousiya City. The seven Copts sustained injuries on several parts of their bodies. Anba Pakhomious, the monastery’s head, said he ordered the building’s … read more
The Rebel movement is working with other political groups to organise mass protests against President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood on 30 June, its coordinator Mahmoud Badr said on Wednesday. Badr said the movement was also coordinating with other … read more
21 May 2013 – Poverty and food insecurity in Egypt have risen significantly over the last three years, according to a joint reports released today by the United Nations food agency and partners. An estimated 13.7 million Egyptians or 17 … read more
In a press conference held on Sunday at the headquarters of the Building and Development Party in 6 October City outside Cairo, the political wing of the Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya, the founders of the ‘Impartiality’ (tagarod) campaign announced that the initiative … read more
Over 100,000 Egyptian Shias, according to Bahaa Anwar, spokesman of Egypt’s Shias, have signed the Rebel campaign that aims to withdraw confidence from Mohamed Morsi and force early presidential elections. In a statement released Saturday, Anwar said that exactly 100,253 … read more
The Cairo Prosecution launches on Saturday an investigation into the arrest Thursday of Salafi preacher Yasser Borhamy at Borg al-Arab Airport in Alexandria as he was returning from Saudi Arabia. The Prosecutor General ordered the Cairo Prosecution to ask the … read more
A case filed by lawyer Ibrahim El-Salamony against President Mohamed Morsi demanding that pornography websites be banned in Egypt was adjourned Saturday to 2 July. El-Salamony filed the case arguing that marriage burdens and high unemployment in recent years has … read more
A 5.0-magnitude earthquake was felt in Egypt’s Cairo, Red Sea and South Sinai on Saturday afternoon. According to National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research Chairman Hatem Ouda, the tremor’s epicentre was located 150 kilometres north of Hurghada, 50 km … read more
Six Mexican tourists died Friday and twenty-five others suffered injuries after a bus overturned in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula near the touristic and religious vacation spot, Saint Catherine’s Monastery. Head of the South Sinai security directorate Mahmoud Henfawi stated that the … read more
Dozens of Egyptian protesters gathered outside the Ethiopian embassy in Cairo on Friday to protest Addis Ababa’s decision earlier this week to temporarily divert the course of the Blue Nile as part of a project to build a series of … read more