China has announced, on Friday, to reduce the level of warnings to Chinese nationals against travelling to Egypt, ahead of Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy’s scheduled visit to Beijing on Saturday. read more
Friday rallies in support of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood saw limited participation due to the cold weather in Cairo, state news agency MENA reported. Tens came out to protest from some of Greater Cairo’s main mosques, MENA said, in pouring rain … read more
Pro-Muslim Brotherhood protesters staged a march in Alexandria following Friday prayers under the slogan “Students ignite the revolution.” The Pro-legitimacy alliance had called for mass protests Friday against the military rule and the security forces’ practices against students. read more
One protester was killed and 10 others were injured in Suez when supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi clashed with the police on Friday afternoon, a medical source said. read more
Army forces intensified security in Cairo’s Tahrir and Rabaa squares on Friday morning in anticipation of protests the National Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy has called for. The coalition which backs former President Mohamed Mursi has called for demonstrations under the … read more
The Anti-Coup Alliance, a coalition of group supporting ousted president Mohamed Morsi, announced that Friday would hold a “million man march” in solidarity with “university students attacked this week”. read more
Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim has ordered the formation of an investigation team to uncover the identity of the perpetrators behind a blast that rocked Ismailia on Thursday. A locally-made bomb detonated yesterday in front of a central security forces camp … read more
Nestled in the heart of downtown Cairo is the opulent headquarters of Arab International Bank, a secretive bank that has allowed kleptocrats to funnel money out of the country for decades with barely any regulatory oversight. The bank, established in … read more
Egyptian leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi said that he would run for the upcoming presidential elections, in a televised interview aired Tuesday night on CBC satellite channel. He said that he is not seeking power but doing a national duty. read more
