Latest in Tag: drugs Highlight
Latest in Tag: drugs
Arab Spring fallout fuels Mediterranean smuggling rise
By Peter Apps – Reuters The chaotic fallout of the “Arab Spring” is fuelling a surge in the smuggling of drugs, weapons and people across the Mediterranean, and cash-strapped regional powers are struggling to respond. Last month, European leaders in Brussels turned down calls from southern European states already hard hit by the euro-zone crisis for additional support …
Rafah border reopened
Security forces arrest several in possession of large amounts of drugs, destroy diesel gas smuggling network in Sinai
A tragic legacy of Afghanistan’s war
By Dr. CĂ©sar Chelala The revelation that the number of opium-addicted Afghan children has reached new highs is a sad, unintended consequence of the war in that country. It dramatically illustrates how adult war games can doom generations of children to a miserable life. It is one of the tragic legacies of a disastrous war. …
UN agency warns that Africa is emerging market for illicit substances trafficking
The UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime annual report
Khaled Said’s case set for retrial
Alexandria Criminal Court will examine the case on 1 June
Street children: What they are not
We see them everywhere. They beg, they clean cars, they fight in the street. We see mothers with their babies and babies without their mothers. We see them in wheelchairs, sitting on the ground, leaning on our cars. Begging, touching us. Asking us to help them, for the love of God. We see them sleeping in the street, under a blanket, on a piece of cardboard. Sometimes, we mistake them for a pile of garbage. They are everywhere, all day, all night. We call them street children and most of us have never exchanged a single word with them.
Egypt and Libya sign military cooperation agreement
Military cooperation between Egypt and Libya aims to tackle border security issues
Kidnapped Norwegian tourist and Israeli companion released
The pair, who had been abducted on Friday, were released thanks to the “efforts” of Bedouin tribesmen
Norwegian Embassy’s ransom offer refused by tourist’s captors
The kidnappers stated that they did not capture the tourists to claim a ransom
Ismailia shootout
Police station attacked, fight dragged to main street
Two Saudis arrested in Cairo International Airport
Visitors accused of smuggling drugs
Bekaa Valley ablaze with protests
Towards the end of July resistance grew violent as farmers took up arms to fight a government decision to crack down on cannabis farming
Pharmaceuticals pricing feud lingers
The Ministry of Health is reconsidering the minister’s resolution on the pricing of pharmaceuticals