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CAIRO: Halfway through the time set for meeting its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the United Nations released a report discussing the progress made thus far in Africa and Western Asia, with North Africa making significant strides towards the goals set to be achieved by 2015. The report was published at the request of the General …
CAIRO: Minister of Electricity and Energy Hassan Younis adamantly denied reports of Israeli experts working in the High Dam. In a statement sent to Daily News Egypt, the minister confirmed that there are no Israelis working in the high dam. “There is a new project to renew the generators and extend their expiry dates for …
CAIRO: Two days after the rockslide in the shantytown of Duweiqa, numerous charity organizations are supplying the survivors and their relatives with food, water, juice, blankets and more. Food and water top the list of demanded items in the area. “Usually our activities are focused on Giza and El Fayoum, but after the Duweiqa crisis, …
CAIRO: Hisham Talaat Moustafa, Egyptian billionaire and real estate tycoon, charged with hiring a hitman to murder Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim, is making headlines in the local press. Some papers dedicated several pages to covering details of the murder and the consequences of the charges leveled against Moustafa. State-run Rose El-Youssef described it as the …
CAIRO: Several governorates around Egypt saw recurrent power cuts over the last few days due to excessive use of electricity, a source in an electricity company told Daily News Egypt. Power cuts affected Cairo, Giza and Sixth of October cities, with areas in Upper Egypt and Delta governorates experiencing power failure several times a day. …
CAIRO: The total number of graduates from universities and institutes both public and private recorded 116 percent increase in the last 10 year, a recent study by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics revealed. In 2007, 405,733 graduated in comparison to 187,078 in 1998. Public universities, led by Al Azhar University, have the …
CAIRO: The judicial committee supervising the Lawyers’ Syndicate elections has postponed the elections from Oct. 10 to Nov. 14, giving candidates an extra month and four days to promote their campaigns. According to Refaat El-Saeed, head of the judicial committee, the elections were postponed as a result of complaints by candidates who saw it difficult …
CAIRO: An official report from the Egyptian Cotton Council revealed that the production of cotton went from 6 million kantars last year to only 2 million this year. The statement also revealed that the decrease in productivity is due to the decline in the cultivated area to only 300,000 acres. This has also led to …
CAIRO: The Egyptian censorship authority approved a play criticizing the government after its director agreed to delete scenes depicting President Hosni Mubarak as well as other controversial scenes of a political nature. The play, Kolo Fel Balala (Total Mess) was initially barred by the censorship authority, until director Rami Qetan reached an agreement with them …
CAIRO: Following a two-year investigation into corruption allegations leveled against the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper’s former editor-in-chief Ibrahim Nafie and director of advertising Hamdy Hassan, Chief Prosecutor at the Court of Appeals Ahmed Idriss, decided to end the investigation and drop all charges against both men. According to an Al-Ahram article that ran Friday, the corruption …
CAIRO: Grand Mufti Sheikh Ali Gomaa has renewed his request that all organizers of free public eateries for the poor in Ramadan, known as mawaed el-rahman, to cooperate and coordinate amongst each other, to spread the benefits to the poor in villages throughout Egypt. Sheikh Ibrahim Negm, the Mufti’s spokesman, told Daily New Egypt that …
It usually takes 15 minutes to drive from Marina to Golf Porto Marina on the North Coast, but on the day of pop star Amr Diab’s concert, we were lucky to make it in two hours. With the highway completely jammed patrol officers closed off the first U-turn to Golf Porto Marina which meant that …
CAIRO: The defense team of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders who received jail sentences in a military court filed an appeal Monday before the Higher Court for Military Contests, they said in a press release. Last April a military court sentenced Second Deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat Al Shater and businessman Hassan Malik …
CAIRO: As more upscale residential developments spring up around Cairo, the shortage in low-income housing supply becomes more obvious. The newest addition to the list of affordable housing initiatives was announced by the Ministry of Housing earlier this week, marking land prices down 5 percent in Cairo’s satellite cities in a bid to encourage small …
CAIRO: The Iranian documentary “Execution of the Pharaoh, which portrays former Egyptian president Anwar El-Sadat as a traitor, is still making headlines, this time about the identity of its producers. The media advisor in the Iranian diplomatic office in Cairo Karim Azizy told local newspapers that investigations by the Iranian authorities concluded that the movie …
CAIRO: Naguib Gabriel, head of the Egyptian Human Rights Union, denied reports in Al-Gomhuria state-owned newspaper Sunday claiming that he has published his book “Contempt for Religions despite an Al-Azhar ban. “What was published in Al-Gomhuria yesterday has no basis in truth, it’s all a lie, Gabriel told Daily News Egypt. The book allegedly fuels …
CAIRO: “Shaaban [the month before Ramadan in the Islamic calendar] is 30 days and Ramadan will begin Sept. 1, Dr Salah Mohamed Mahmoud, head of the National Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, told Daily News Egypt. Mahmoud said that they will not be able to sight the Ramadan crescent as it will set before sunset …
CAIRO: In the continuous feud between the ruling party and the Muslim Brotherhood, Ali El-Din Helal said the idea of a revolution over the constitution is rooted in the group’s ideology. In his latest interview with Rose Al-Youssef newspaper, Ali El-Din Helal, of the National Democratic Party (NDP) and former minister, commented on the political …
CAIRO: For the second time in less than three months, the first line of the underground in Cairo (Marg-Helwan) suffered a ventilation malfunction between the Tora El-Balad and “Dar El-Salam stations. The Egyptian Company for the Management and Operation of the Metro said that at approximately 2:30 pm on Monday, security forces cut off the …
CAIRO: The families of Al-Salam 98 ferry victims received Sunday’s court ruling acquitting the owner and other defendants with outrage that was echoed throughout Egypt. “This is the most depressing and darkest ruling in Egypt’s history since the Denshway Trial, scriptwriter Wahid Hamed told a local paper, in reference to the 1906 death sentence six …
CAIRO: The four university students affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood that disappeared in Alexandria are now facing charges of belonging to a terrorist cell. Their lawyer claims they were tortured. “All the students were tortured, they were electrocuted for three days in Istekbal prison in Tora, Khalaf Ahmed Bayoumi, the student’s lawyer, told Daily News …
CAIRO: If you have a headache, feel tired and dizzy, then it’s probably the side effect of using the mobile for over 30 minutes. Some scientists claim that radio frequency radiations (RFR), generated by mobile phones, have many side effects. Others strongly disagree. The Doctors’ Syndicate held a conference on Tuesday to discuss the effects …
CAIRO: Mohamed El Baradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), criticized the recent arms deal between the United States and Middle East countries including Egypt, Israel and Saudi Arabia. According to local newspapers, in an interview with Austrian magazine Profile, El Baradei said that Washington’s strategy of helping build arms cache …
ALEXANDRIA: Amal Hamdy, a mother from Alexandria, tried to kill her 7-day-old daughter after the alleged father denied parenthood, reported local newspapers. Hamdy, 21, attempted to get rid of her daughter by placing her on the roof in the scorching sun so the baby would suffer from sunstroke. Neighbors rushed to bring the baby to …
More than two thousand years ago an Indian sailor was found on one of the Red Sea coast; he was close to death and was taken to the authorities in Alexandria. Then the sailor made an offer if they let him go to his home country he would guide the Egyptians to a direct sea …
CAIRO: Health Minister Hatem El Gabaly announced Sunday at a Shoura Council health committee meeting that H7, a new strain of the bird flu virus, was recently detected in Egypt for the first time. Abdel Rahman Shahin, health ministry spokesman, told Daily News Egypt they found the virus in one of the migrating birds. He …
CAIRO: the Ministry of Health reported two more cases of the recently banned female genital mutilation in Al Gharbeya. According to ministry officials citizens have been reporting FGM cases after the operation was banned by a ministry decree last June. The decree was issued after a 12-year-old died with an anesthesia overdose while undergoing circumcision. …
CAIRO: Less than one week after the death of the second victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) surgery, Karima Rahim Massoud, citizens from six different governorates filed complaints to the Health Ministry about other FGM cases. Spokesman for the Ministry of Health Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin told Daily News Egypt that the ministry’s inspection committee …
CAIRO: Thirteen-year-old, Karima Rahim Massoud became the second victim of an illegal female genital mutilation (FGM) surgery, where an overdose of anesthesia killed her at a Delta village in Gharbiya, the press reported. “When we arrived at the clinic Karima was in very good health, Karima’s father reportedly told Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper. “He told us …
CAIRO: Three police officers were arrested Wednesday and charged with murder for their involvement in the death of Nasser Sadiq Gadallah who died after plunging from his fourth floor balcony in El Omraneya district, Giza. The detainment of Hassan Mohammed Hassan, Sabry Abd El Ader and Maher was renewed for 15 more days. They are …