Egypt’s interim vice president, Mohamed ElBaradei, resigned on Wednesday after the security forces violently broke up protest camps set up by supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Mursi, APA reports quoting Reuters. In a resignation letter to Interim President Adly … read more
It is the night of July 3, and on the streets of downtown Cairo thousands are celebrating the ousting of Egypt’s deposed president, Mohamed Morsi. But below ground, in the police booth of Tahrir Square’s metro station, Joanna Joseph is … read more
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle urged supporters of Egypt’s interim government and its ousted president Mohamed Morsi to renounce violence amid a deadly crackdown on protests Wednesday. “We call on all political forces to return immediately to negotiations and avert … read more
Dozens of supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi blocked the road leading to Mostafa Mahmoud Square in Cairo’s Mohandiseen district on Wednesday amid a random firing of gunshots, reported the state-owned news agency. The protesters have set fire to car … read more
The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy has called on “all Egyptian people” to take to the streets “to stop the massacre” after police attacked its two sit-ins in Cairo’s Nahda and Rabaa El-Adaweya squares early on Wednesday. The alliance, an … read more
Supporters of deposed president Mohamed Mursi hit Alexandria’s streets on Wednesday morning to voice their rejection of the security operation to clear out the sit-ins at Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adaweya and Nahda Squares. Pro-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators swiftly reacted to calls from … read more
The Egyptian authorities have arrested 200 people at the Muslim Brotherhood’s protest camps in Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda Squares for possessing firearms and white weapons, security sources said as quoted by the state news agency. Fifty of those arrested at … read more
Hundreds of pro-Mursi protesters hurled stones at Aswan’s governorate headquarters on Wednesday morning in protest against the security operation in Cairo to disperse protesters at Rabaa al-Adaweya and Nahda sit-ins. Around three thousand demonstrators have besieged the building and are … read more
Civil Aviation Minister Abdel Aziz Fadel has said international flights on EgyptAir declined by 11 percent between July and August. Fadel called on Egyptians to work hard to achieve stability, after over a month of violence and tension has left … read more
Egypt’s train movement has been completely halted across the country, a source at Egyptian Railway Authority said on Wednesday as reported by a state-owned news channel. Meanwhile, the ecurity forces have begun clearing out the Muslim Brotherhood’s sit-ins at Rabaa … read more