A night time curfew imposed in Cairo and 13 other governorates might remain in place despite a planned end to the state of emergency in mid-November, an official source has told Al-Ahram Arabic news website. A cabinet media advisor said … read more
Armed assailants killed a policeman in Northern Sinai’s city of Arish on Thursday, security sources said. Eyewitnesses said that he was shot by unknown gunmen and died from his wounds. Successive attacks on security forces in Sinai have left seven … read more
Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Mohamed Mostafa Mahmoud El-Sayed – aka ‘the Maadi thug,’ Monday to five years in prison instead of 45 years. El-Sayed roamed the district of Maadi and a number of surrounding areas for months, using a sharp … read more
Standard and Poor’s Capital IQ has revealed that Egypt has become the most indebted country in Africa and the Middle East in the third quarter of this year. In the latest quarterly Global Sovereign Debt Credit Risk Report, published on … read more
Egypt hopes that political tensions with natural gas giant Qatar will not undermine efforts to secure supplies from the Gulf state, but sees Algeria and Yemen as other options, a top state oil executive said. Tarek El Molla, chairman of … read more
The prosecutor’s office ordered the detention of three officers and a vice warden of the Heliopolis police station for four days for their role in the death of 49 prisoners on 17 August. Anti-torture movement Nation-Without-Torture disputed early Ministry of … read more
Political satirist Bassem Youssef believes supporters of army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi may file legal complaints against him when his show comes back on air, adding that fear of censorship will not stop him from political critique. In an op-ed published … read more
A bomb exploded near an army checkpoint on Tuesday morning in the Northern Sinai city of Rafah, killing an army officer and wounding five soldiers, security sources told the state news agency. The security sources added that the wounded soldiers … read more
Cabinet spokesperson Sherif Shawqi has claimed Egypt’s emergency law will not continue past mid-November. In remarks on Tuesday, Shawqi said the Cabinet does not intend to extend the emergency law in the wake of the Warraq church attack. Media speculation … read more
One civilian was killed and four others injured Monday evening by gunmen in Arish, North Sinai. A North Sinai Security Directorate source said unidentified gunmen in a car shot at another vehicle in the city’s al-Safa neighborhood, killing a man … read more