Reuters Experts from Russia and Germany are in Egypt to inspect the wreckage of a Russian passenger plane that crashed in Sinai last year killing all 224 people on board, the Egyptian-led investigating committee said on Monday. Irish, American, and … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt’s administrative prosecution has referred television presenter Azza al-Hennawy to a disciplinary court for insulting the president and expressing personal viewpoints on her talk show, aired on a state-owned channel called Al-Qahira (Cairo). According to investigations, Hennawy did … read more
A photojournalist has been reported as forcibly disappeared, after security forces allegedly arrested him in Matariya, according to the independent Journalists Against Torture Observatory (JATO). JATO’s lawyer Ali El-Halawani told Daily News Egypt Sunday that photojournalist Omar Adel called his … read more
MENA The Cabinet has approved an amendment to the law criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), increasing the penalty to five to seven years prison with hard labor, in place of the previous three months to three years, Health Minister Ahmed … read more
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will visit India next week to discuss bilateral relations and trade, a statement by the president’s office read. El-Sisi will hold talks with India’s President Pranab Mukherjee, who invited him, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during … read more
Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafy resigned from his position during the cabinet meeting on Thursday. This comes one day after parliament’s Fact Finding Committee published its report on corruption in wheat imports. The Ministry of Supply, which has remained at the … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm The Ministry of Electricity has cut power to some administrative buildings of government companies and agencies that have not paid electricity bills, the ministry said in a statement of Thursday. However, it said it would not cut power … read more
President Abdel-Fatah El-Sisi recieved King Abdullah II of Jordan in the presidential palace in Cairo on Wednesday. The King is on a visit to Egypt to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries as well as to regional and international … read more
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced on Tuesday that he will be running for re-election in 2018 “if it is the will of the Egyptian people,” a statement read on his official Facebook page. “I can never fail to respond to … read more
‘); doc.close(); })(); } Egyptians’ online communications are now being monitored by the sister company of an American cybersecurity firm, giving the Egyptian government an unprecedented ability to comb through data from Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, among others. See … read more