Egyptian authorities will bar 55,000 unlicensed clerics from preaching in mosques in the latest move against sympathisers of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, the minister of religious endowments said on Tuesday. Egyptian authorities have been cracking down on Mursi’s Muslim … read more
Fifteen people were arrested for their alleged involvement in an armed car hijack on cofounder and spokesman of Tamarod (Rebel) campaign Mahmoud Badr, a security source told state news agency MENA early on Tuesday. Badr, who also currently sits on … read more
Egypt’s annual urban headline inflation fell to 9.7 percent in the twelve months to August 2013, down from 10.3 percent a month earlier, figures from the Central Agency for Statistics and Mobilisation (CAPMAS) showed on Tuesday. The overall inflation rate … read more
Egypt’s military says it has seized caches of weapons in a Sinai operation including a mortar apparently belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group in neighboring Gaza. The military has launched a sweeping offensive in the north of the peninsula … read more
Qatar agreed on Monday to convert a $2 billion deposit with Egypt’s central bank into bonds within a week, Youm 7 newspaper quoted central bank governor Hisham Ramez as saying. The conversion was thrown into doubt last week when a … read more
The Nour Party has said that former Muslim Brotherhood leader Kamal El-Helbawi, who is a member of the constitution-drafting committee, does not speak for Islamists. The Salafist party announced on Monday that it will demand that El-Helbawi not be defined … read more
Justice Minister Adel Abdel Hamid on Monday granted the president of the Petroleum Authority and his aides the legal power of arrest in order to tighten control of gas stations and reduce smuggling of diesel and gasoline. Petroleum Minister Sherif … read more
Mahmoud Badr, the founder of Tamarod, the Egyptian youth movement that rallied street protests against ousted President Mohammad Mursi, survived assassination attempt on Monday: Al Arabiya correspondent reported from Cairo. Tamarod’s official website reported that gunmen opened fire at his … read more
The Youth Against Coup Movement, affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood, has announced plans for 15 women’s marches on Tuesday starting from mosques in Cairo and Giza to Mohandessin, Talaat Harb Square and Hegaz Square. The marches, entitled “We Did Not … read more
A Giza prosecutor has ordered the arrest of 139 suspects, who allegedly belong to the Muslim Brotherhood, for raiding a police station in the Giza suburb of Kerdassa and killing its policemen in August. The authorities were able to identify … read more