At the conclusion of a meeting between President Mohamed Morsi and Egypt’s Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF), the president promoted several top officers in an effort to thaw the recently strained relationship between the army and presidency. Rumours … read more
Senior Egyptian army doctors were ordered to operate without anaesthetic on wounded protesters at a military hospital in Cairo during protests against military rule, according to an investigation commissioned by president Mohamed Morsi. The report into military and police malpractice … read more
Wasat Party leader Abul-Ela Madi has repeated his claim that the intelligence service had approximately 300,000 ‘thugs’ on its payroll during the Mubarak era. Speaking on MBC Misr TV channel on Tuesday, Madi said he had received the information from … read more
President Mohamed Morsi will honour 37 Egyptian scientists at an event marking National Science Day on Thursday, state news agency MENA reports. The scientists have all been awarded the Nile Award or the Egyptian State Award between 2009 and 2011. … read more
Twenty new arrest warrants issued Wednesday brought the number of suspects in the sectarian violence in Khosous, Qalyubiya to 32, North Qalyubiya Prosecution announced. The violence last week resulted in the death of six people. At the funeral of some … read more
At least five people were killed and ten others injured in a car crash in Egypt’s Daqahliya governorate on Tuesday, official news agency MENA reported. The accident occurred when a microbus hit two cars on Farascour- Mansoura road, some 90 … read more
Egypt’s inflation rate eased to 7.6 percent in March, breaking a three-month acceleration that drove the central bank to raise the benchmark interest rate for the first time since 2011. Annual urban inflation was expected to climb to 8.8 percent … read more
President Mohamed Morsi has called for an investigation into the attacks on mourners at Abbasiya Cathedral on Sunday. All necessary security measures were taken to contain the violence which killed two and injured 90, the president said in a statement … read more
Mansoura University in the Nile Delta governorate of Daqahliya closed its doors indefinitely on Tuesday following violent clashes on campus between protesting students. For weeks, students have been protesting what they describe as ‘administrative negligence’ on campus and at the … read more
A Muslim preacher who led prayers for Tahrir Square protesters during Egypt’s 2011 revolution and its aftermath says he has been suspended from work following accusations that he criticised Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Sheik Mazhar Shahin told the Associated Press … read more