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CAIRO: The Banha local council discovered on Monday that sewage water has leaked into lakes used to irrigate agricultural land in the city, which is the capital of Qaliyubia governorate. According to a report issued by the council two days ago “a leakage occurred in the sewage station last week, leading the impure sewage water …
CAIRO: The Supreme State Security Prosecution on Sunday renewed for 15 more days the detention order of Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, secretary general of the Arab Doctors’ Union and deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. The prosecution also renewed the detention orders of Gamal Abdel-Salam, chairman of the emergency committee in the Arab Doctors’ Union, …
CAIRO: A doctors’ committee said it plans to go on strike on Sept. 9 against the Egyptian Ministry of Health and the Doctors’ Syndicate for their failure to provide financial raises they had been asking for since last year. “The protest will be a statement against the failure of the Syndicate to retrieve the rights …
CAIRO: Minister of Health Hatem El-Gabaly denied news reports claiming that Egyptian MPs were not given Hajj visas to distribute among members of their constituencies because of the H1N1 flu pandemic. In its Thursday issue, state-run daily newspaper Al-Gomhuria claimed that members of the People’s Assembly and Shoura Council did not receive Hajj visas to …
CAIRO: Al-Wasat Al-Gadid, which was recently denied official party status for the fourth time, condemned the decision taken by the Shoura Council’s political parties committee. The group, along with members of several opposition parties, says the move stands in the way of democratic reform and political participation. The Shoura Council, however, stands by its decision, …
CAIRO: Security forces arrested 54 deputy leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, in a recent crackdown on the group. The arrests started Wednesday night in Cairo, where seven members were taken from their homes in Al-Moqattam including Sayed Nazily, head of the Brotherhood’s office in Giza, Brotherhood deputy leader Hamdi Ibrahim and Mohieldin Al-Zayat, …
CAIRO: Al-Azhar’s Grand Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawy said Muslims are allowed to donate money to build churches, in a meeting with the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization headed by Coptic lawyer and activist Naguib Gobrael. “Islamic Sharia does not prohibit Muslims from sponsoring or funding a church, Tantawy said. Tantawy lauded the new law …
CAIRO: In a joint statement, three MPs claimed that several high-ranking governmental officials as well as deputy leaders in the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU) and chief editors of state-run newspapers receive monthly salaries as high as LE 1 million. Independent MPs Gamal Zahran and Mohamed Abdel Alim Dawoud along with Muslim Brotherhood MP …
CAIRO: Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Moufid Shehab rejected the idea of setting a quota for seats occupied by Copts in the People’s Assembly. Copts are an integral part of society and to ask for a number of seats for them in the PA is “an insult because they are capable of actively participating …
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood’s parliamentary bloc formed a special committee aimed at combating vote rigging in the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled to take place in 2010, Hamdy Hassan, spokesperson for the group’s parliamentary bloc, said. In a meeting last week, Brotherhood MPs agreed to form a special committee comprised of independent members of the community …
CAIRO: Coptic lawyer and activist Mamdouh Ramzy said his call for a Lawyer’s Syndicate committee to promote Christian religious law was meant to counteract a similar committee by the Muslim Brotherhood promoting Islamic Sharia. Ramzy told Daily News Egypt that he filed the request at the Lawyer’s Syndicate last month to force the Muslim Brotherhood …
CAIRO: Security released 11 of the recently detained Muslim Brotherhood members following several release orders from different Cairo courts. Prominent Brotherhood member and chairman of the Arab Doctors’ Union, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, is still being detained. Amer Bassam, deputy leader in the group’s office in Sharqeya, leads the list of those released. The South …
CAIRO: Independent MP Gamal Zahran demanded Qaliubiya Governor Adly Hussein submit his resignation following reports of an increase in the number of typhoid cases in the governorate. The governor, however, placed the blame on the contractor responsible for constructing the water networks in one of the villages, leading to the contamination of drinking water with …
CAIRO: Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Nasr El-Din Allam denied Tuesday news reports claiming that there are cracks in the High Dam, according to a statement. A source inside the ministry said Allam’s statements came in reaction to an article published by Al-Fajr independent weekly newspaper that said cracks have appeared in the …
CAIRO: Egypt’s Higher State Security Prosecution extended the detention of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) deputy leader Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and five other members for 15 days. This is the second 15-day extension for Aboul Fotouh, an Egyptian doctor and secretary general of the Arab Doctors’ Union. The five other Brotherhood members still in detention include …
CAIRO: Drugs used to treat H1N1 worldwide may have side effects on children that outweigh their benefits, a recent study conducted at Oxford University said. The study, which was published in the British Medical Journal, says children should not be given Tamiflu and Relenza – the most common antiviral drugs – unless their condition is …
CAIRO: Muslim Brotherhood MPs in Qaliubiya’s Qanater district said they will not participate in a redo of the 2005 parliamentary elections set to take place next week. The group will, however, participate in the upcoming 2010 parliamentary elections, according to Hussein Ibrahim, head of the MB’s parliamentary bloc. There has been speculation recently surrounding the …
CAIRO: Real estate tax collectors vowed to continue the protest they started on Thursday until the Ministry of Finance retracts its decision to include them under the Banks’ Syndicate. Last April, real estate tax collectors had formed Egypt’s first independent trade union since 1957, 14 months after they forced the government to respond to their …
CAIRO: The Ministry of Health will obtain five million doses of an H1N1 vaccine by next year, according to Nasr Al-Sayed, deputy health minister. “Egypt already ordered five million doses of the new vaccine from the manufacturing company, Al-Sayed said. Al-Sayed added that the ministry is contacting international pharmaceutical companies to negotiate deals to buy …
CAIRO: The Supreme Military Appeals Court upheld a ruling sentencing Magdy Ahmed Hussein, secretary general of the defunct Labor Party, to two years in jail for illegally crossing the Egyptian borders to Gaza. The verdicts of military appeals courts are final, according to Egyptian law. Last February, the Supreme Military Court sentenced Hussein to two …
CAIRO: Minister of Higher Education Hani Helal warned against applying for uncertified universities that are increasingly being advertised in newspapers and satellite television channels. I ask students and parents not to fall for misleading ads of new private faculties and academies, they must verify those universities with the Ministry of Higher Education or the different …
CAIRO: Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud tasked a special committee with investigating the rise in the number of typhoid cases in a Qaliubiya village. Over 100 typhoid cases have appeared in Al-Bardah village in the past month. Previous investigations have shown that the infections resulted from drinking contaminated water, Qaliubiya Governor Ali Hussein said. Residents …
CAIRO: An Egyptian court found the owners of three pharmaceutical companies guilty of manufacturing and selling counterfeit drugs to the public. The owners of Daber Egypt Ltd., Nunu Misr for Child Care and Tri-M Medical were tried and convicted in absentia to one year in prison and fined LE 10,000. Their factories were shut down …
CAIRO: Minister of Health Hatem El-Gabaly said no drastic precautionary measures will be taken in schools against the spread of H1N1, adding that the ministry will deal with the situation as it progresses. In a conference that brought together El-Gabaly and Minister of Education Yousry El-Gamal at the Ministry of Education Tuesday, El-Gamal said that …
CAIRO: A team of Egyptian doctors at the Mansoura Public Hospital in Daqahleya successfully separated two Egyptian eight-month-old conjoined twin boys on Sunday. The twins were joined at the bottom of the backbone, shared genitals, had one penis and three testicles. Daqahleya governor, Samir Salam, commended the “unprecedented medical procedure, in a special celebration. “This …
CAIRO: Shubra Al-Kheima’s prosecution office summoned all contractors involved in building the district’s water and sewage projects for questioning, after residents complained that the drinking water is contaminated. According to the official statement released by Shubra Al-Kheima’s prosecution office, residents accuse the contractor Anwar Nabawy, of pumping sewage water through the governorate’s drinking water pipes …
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood plans to propose a meeting with National Democratic Party (NDP) leaders to initiate communication between both groups, the Brotherhood’s Deputy Leader Mohamed Habib told Daily News Egypt. According to Habib, Egypt is “currently facing a lot of setbacks in different areas, which negatively affected its role in the region and in …
CAIRO: Egyptian Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud approved Minister of Health Hatem El-Gabaly’s request to crack down on media outlets that promote medical or beauty products not certified by the health ministry. According to health ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahin, El-Gabaly’s request, filed on Wednesday, was a reaction to the noted increase in the volume …
CAIRO: The Educators’ Union of Giza governorate denounced recent statements made by some Ministry of Education officials refusing to allow teachers and education administrators to re-take evaluation exams, which determine their qualification for pay raises. Since the People’s Assembly approval the new law increasing the teachers’ and education administrators’ salaries in July 2007, the Ministry …
CAIRO: Minister of Health Hatem El-Gabaly warned of a surge in the number of H1N1 cases in Egypt by August. During an interview on state TV Tuesday, El-Gabaly reiterated previous statements that the number of infected cases will reach thousands. He explained that a change in seasons as well as a development in the virus …