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Mubarak’s party headquarters demolished

Mubarak’s party headquarters demolished

Egypt has begun demolishing the headquarters of the now-dissolved party of former President Hosni Mubarak. The building in Cairo near Tahrir Square was torched in the 2011 uprising that toppled Mubarak. Demolition workers also began tearing down a nearby office block that was once the centre of state bureaucracy. Egypt’s government approved the move in […]

Egypt Signs 30 Technology Agreements With African Companies

Egypt Signs 30 Technology Agreements With African Companies

Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) organized a forum to celebrate the signing of 30 partnership agreements between 15 Egyptian companies and 17 companies from six African countries in the field of communications and IT. The revenues of the Egyptian companies from this partnership program are estimated at some 48 million pounds in several spheres, […]

Equatorial Guinea Eyes Coop. With Egypt

Equatorial Guinea Eyes Coop. With Egypt

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab received on Tuesday 26/5/2015 Equatorial Guinean Ambassador to Egypt Eustaguio Nseng Esono. During the meeting, Mahlab reviewed with the diplomat actions taken on agreements he made with the Equatorial Guinean government during his visit in May 2014. The diplomat highlighted Egypt’s success story in the social housing field, saying, Malabo eyes […]

Egypt Eastern Tobacco Company to Invest in Malawi

Egypt Eastern Tobacco Company to Invest in Malawi

President Professor Peter Mutharika has commended an Egyptian Eastern Tobacco Company for its interest to invest in the country. Speaking Thursday at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe after holding a brief meeting with the owners of the company, the State President said tobacco is one of the nation’s largest sources of income as it contributes about […]

Restoring Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations – French Foreign Minister

Restoring Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations – French Foreign Minister

Cairo — French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced on Thursday his intention to visit Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian territories next month to push for restarting the peace process. Fabius told France Inter, France’s general public radio, that he will put forward a French proposition to restart the negotiations between the two sides “within an […]

Former Egypt MP Fallahgi Dies in Detention

Former Egypt MP Fallahgi Dies in Detention

On 20 May 2015, Mohamed Al Fallahgi, a 58-year-old former Member of Parliament elected in 2012 died in detention, despite Alkarama’s urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (SRH) and the Special Rapporteur against Torture (SRT) on 1 May 2015 urging the Egyptian authorities to hospitalise him immediately. Arrested […]

Egypt Shuts Down 50 NGOs for Brotherhood Ties

Egypt Shuts Down 50 NGOs for Brotherhood Ties

Cairo — Egypt’s social solidarity minister ordered the dissolution of 50 NGOs in five Egyptian cities for being affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, on Tuesday, bringing the total number of NGOs shut down in similar decisions this year to 430. An urgent matters court banned the Brotherhood in September 2013 and established a committee to […]

Morsi on death row – Egypt forced to abolish death penalty

Morsi on death row – Egypt forced to abolish death penalty

PRESS RELEASE The Criminal Court of First Instance of Cairo, Nasr City I held at Police Academy ruled in the case No. 56460 for year 2013, which is known in media as “Escape from Wadi el-Natrun prison”, the referral of 107 defendants, among them the former president Muhammad Morsi and group of leaders in Muslim […]

Algeria for Connecting Efforts Against Obscurantist Ideas

Algeria for Connecting Efforts Against Obscurantist Ideas

Cairo — Communication Minister Hamid Grine called Thursday in Cairo on the Arab media to connect their efforts to “counter the destructive practices and obscurantist ideas conveyed by terrorist groups.” In his address to the 46th meeting of the Arab Information Ministers Council, Grine urged the Arab media to develop and renew the Arab media […]

Security Forces Use Sexual Violence to Quell Opposition

Security Forces Use Sexual Violence to Quell Opposition

An FIDH report has said women in Egypt face “widespread sexual violence” by security forces, including rape, virginity tests and electroshocks to genitalia. Those affected hail from all walks of Egyptian society. The report by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) investigated cases of sexual violence committed by Egyptian security forces from July 3, […]

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