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CAIRO: Egypt’s presidential elections will be held in late May, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported on Wednesday, quoting Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Mohamed Attia. It also affirmed the military junta’s commitment to opening presidential nominations on March 10 for a period of three weeks, but an exact date for the vote has yet to be [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s government on Tuesday repealed the death sentences from the Supreme Emergency State Security Court against three men for their participation in an October 2004 bombing at the Sinai resort of Taba and the 2005 bombing in Sharm el-Sheikh. The move has been received with praise from human rights organizations in the country, who [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s ministry of electricity told Bikyamasr.com on Wednesday morning that they are hopeful to award a contract for a massive 1,000 megawatt wind farm in the country. The ministry said they hope the new project, upon inking the deal, will be fully functional by 2016 to help ease Egypt’s electricity needs. According to a [...]
CAIRO: An Australian journalist, an American student and their Egyptian translator have been barred from leaving Egypt pending investigation into allegations they “incited” residents of Mahalla in the Nile Delta to perpetrate violence, the prosecutor in the case said late Tuesday evening. All charges have been denied by journalist Austin Mackell. He did, however, say [...]
CAIRO: Israel’s leading communications satellite company Spacecom, which operates the AMOS satellites across the world, hopes that recent discussions with South Sudan will help boost its role in the young country’s communications and telecommunications industry. According to a statement from South Sudan’s Ministry of Telecommunications, officials met and discussed potential cooperation on future communications projects [...]
CAIRO: The United Arab Emirates’ telecom operator Etisalat, the Gulf region’s largest telecom company, said on Monday evening that it hopes to acquire a license to operate in Libya or to invest in one of the country’s already existing operators. Libya’s current two state-run mobile operators are Madar and Libyana, and a third government-run company [...]
CAIRO: Over the past week, tensions between the Coptic Christian community in Egypt and the new parliament have increased over the forced evictions in a village near Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea of Coptic families. The incident has sparked outrage among human rights activists, Coptic Christians and observers alike. They have referred to the forcing [...]
CAIRO: Freed Australian journalist Austin Mackell lashed out at the Egyptian military junta and state television shortly after his release from two days of detention, where he was accused of bribing locals to “incite” and cause violence in the northern Nile Delta city of Mahalla on Saturday. Speaking to The World Today, Mackell said he [...]
CAIRO: An Australian journalist and an American student accused of “inciting” residents in Mahalla in the Nile Delta to violence were finally released on Monday said, after more than 48 hours in detention and charges brought against them. Journalist Austin Mackell, American student Derek Ludovici and their Egyptian translator Aliya Alwi had been in detention [...]
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CAIRO: If anyone had any doubts over the role of the military in supporting justice and freedom were once again dashed on Saturday when Australian journalist Austin Mackell and his Egyptian translator Aliya Alwi were arrested in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla while covering the general strike called for by activists. The military detained [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Samira Ibrahim is not backing down from her lawsuit against the ruling military junta over virginity tests employed against her and other women in 2011. Despite numerous postponements of her case, Ibrahim has remained stalwart in her fight for justice. On Monday, she returns again to court to continue her battle against the [...]
CAIRO: The father of detained Australian journalist Austin Mackell, a freelance reporter in Egypt, hopes that the Embassy will do all they can to intercede and ensure his son is released without harm. The father, Roger, told the Sydney Morning Herald in comments published on Monday that officials had tried to get physical access to [...]
CAIRO: Egyptian women are angry, again, at presidential hopeful Hazem Saleh Abu Ismail’s comments that as president he would require the veil, or higab, on all women in the country. Abu Ismail said that women in the country must “change creed” and that Islam gives no special personal freedom. “If you claim that Allah considers [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi ordered on Saturday the formation of the National Council for Women (NCW), one year after it had been dissolved following the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian Cabinet announced that the Council will include 30 new [...]
CAIRO: Activists have launched an online campaign directed at Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) for Australian journalist Austin Mackell, who was arrested while reporting from the Nile Delta town of Mahallah on Saturday. He was arrested along with his translator Aliya Alwi, who was able to continue sending messages on her personal [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s state television reported late on Saturday night that three Korean tourists who had been kidnapped in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday were released. The three tourists had been traveling with their Egyptian guide when they were stopped and taken at gunpoint. The Associated Press reported that the tribesmen left a number of other [...]
CAIRO: An Australian journalist and his Egyptian translator have been arrested in the Nile Delta city of Mahallah on Saturday. As of Saturday evening, the two had been charged with “incitement” and had been transferred to the prosecutor’s office. Austin Mackell and Aliya Alwi had been covering the protests taking place in the northern Egyptian [...]
CAIRO: Certainly Cairo is not the easiest, or most diverse, place to be a vegan in today’s world, but there are some options and any vegan resident of Egypt or just a visitor does have some places to head on a daily basis. For the most part, street food in the country – ranging from [...]
CAIRO: Cars moved through downtown Cairo on Saturday, shops were open and customers were busy purchasing items for the day. Online, calls of strike were being pushed by activists, but the reality on the ground was that it appeared to be yet another regular day in the Egyptian capital, albeit with the usual marches and [...]
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