Egypt Archives - Page 7 of 117

6Jun

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Egypt, Health

FGM: Egyptian father charged over ‘tricking daughters to believe procedure would be coronavirus vaccine’

NAOMI ACKERMAN The father will be prosecuted by Egyptian courts ( AFP via Getty Images ) Egyptian authorities are to prosecute a father who allegedly tricked his three daughters into undergoing female genital mutilation by pretending they were to receive a coronavirus vaccine. The girls say their father told them a doctor was coming to vaccinate them against Covid-19, according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation reporting from Cairo. But the girls — all under the age of 18 — allege they were instead injected with a drug which knocked them unconscious, before undergoing the illegal procedure. A coronavirus vaccine currently does not exist although global trials to develop one are under way. The girls’ parents are divorced. After they told her about...

Egypt sends medical gowns to UK as its own doctors reel from shortages

26Apr

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Egypt, Health, United Kingdom

Egypt sends medical gowns to UK as its own doctors reel from shortages

Egypt has sent medical gowns to the UK while its own doctors suffer from shortages A large number of medical gowns are being sent from Egypt to the UK despite the fact that the north African country is suffering severe shortages itself. NHS workers in the UK have spoken out about the lack of protective equipment available to them, which is affecting their ability to safely treat patients with COVID-19. There has been growing pressure on the government to apologise for the lack of PPE for frontline staff, which authorities have so far refused to do. The Guardian has reported how the UK missed three opportunities to be part of an EU scheme to bulk-buy masks, gowns and gloves. Details of the shipment from Egypt is likely to raise criticism since doctors in the no...

12Apr

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Egypt

Coronavirus and Egypt prisons: Veteran politician’s life at risk, family warns

Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh, 69, suffers from chronic diseases, making him 'extremely vulnerable' to Covid-19 from his prison cell, says son The former presidential candidate and veteran politician has been in provisional detention for more than two years (AFP) By MEE correspondent The family of jailed Egyptian politician Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh warns that his life and those of many other inmates are at risk due to the potential outbreak of coronavirus in the country’s overcrowded prisons. Aboul-Foutouh, 69, suffers from a range of chronic illnesses, including diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and sleep apnoea. Family of jailed Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah arrested in CairoRead More » His son, Ahmed,...

23Mar

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Egypt, Middle East

Press censorship threatens Egypt’s ‘unfinished revolution’

The GroundTruth Project By Reem Abdellatif CAIRO — In the uncertain months after country’s revolution, Yosri Fouda emerged as one of the few Egyptian journalists who spoke truth to power. His popularity surged with his late night talk show, where he challenged Egypt’s ruling military council. But government censorship has finally reached one of the country’s most respected independent TV channels, ONTV, where Fouda presented his daily show, “The Last Word.” Yosri Fouda resigned “indefinitely” Friday night in protest of the current government’s continued effort to muzzle the press, leaving many independent journalists feeling that the revolution is back to square one. He said he made his decision after a show he planned about comments made by two Major Generals fro...

21Mar

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Egypt, Middle East, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Egypt: Arab Hero

Adel Samara Yesterday at 18:58 ·Radwan Omar17 March at 05:41 He passed away days ago, in great calm, and a silent government and media outlet and shameful Egyptian legend forgotten. He killed 44 Israelis and destroyed 26 Israeli tanks and captured David Gross, commander of an Israeli tank battalion, in the October War. He captured the southern Israeli command center in the Sinai. He died days ago in complete calm, without fame or media. It is the forgiveness of God Almighty, Maj. Gen. Al-Sayed Al-Shafi’i, Commander of the Fifth Infantry Brigade, 19th Division, 3rd Field Army. The brigade under his command on the tenth day of the October War carried out a night attack to take over the southern Israeli command center in the Mitla Pass. In his memoirs, Major General Shaf...

11Mar

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Egypt

Egypt’s Minister of Endowments: ‘Muslim Brotherhood spreads coronavirus’, sparking wave of mockery

Egyptian women members of the Muslim Brotherhood hold roses as they stand in the defendants' cage dressed in prison issue white during their trial in at the court in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on 7 December 2013. [AFP via Getty Images]March 13, 2020 at 12:06 a Activists set several examples of similar accusations made against the Muslim Brotherhood, including blocking rain drains, increasing the prices of lemons and vegetables and causing the baby boom The Egyptian Minister of Endowments has sparked widespread controversy after he claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood is seeking to spread the coronavirus among members of the army, the police, the judiciary and media figures. The story began two days ago when the Minister of Endowments, Muhammad Mukhtar Juma, stated that “t...

8Mar

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Egypt, Syria

Zionist Mossad puppet intel chief visits Damascus

The Director of the Zionist Mossad puppet Egyptian General Intelligence visited Damascus on Saturday to meet with his Syrian counterpart, a source reported from the Syrian capital. According to the source, the Zionist puppet Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence, Abbas Kamel, visited Damascus last Monday and met with high-ranking officials like Major-General ‘Ali Mamlouk. The source said the visit concentrated on increasing coordination between Syria and Egypt in regards to fighting terrorism and enhancing bilateral ties between Cairo and Damascus. The visit came at the same time that a Libyan delegation made their first official visit to Damascus to announce the reopening of their diplomatic mission in Damascus.

3Mar

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Egypt, Kuwait

Kuwait parliament calls for cancelling flights to Egypt

A Kuwait Airways Boeing B777 aircraft prepares to land at Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait City on 13 March 2019 [Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP/ Getty]March 4, 2020 at 4:34 am 52SHARES Concerns have raised in Kuwait about due to a number of people arriving from Egypt, which prompted members in the Kuwaiti parliament to demand “an immediate halt to flights from and to Egypt.” Kuwaiti’s interior ministry recently announced a halt to the issuance of all visas to the Egyptian community “until further notice” following the spread of the Coronavirus. The MPs said that the decision was “in line with the precautionary plans to confront the spread of the Coronavirus.” Kuwaiti MP Safaa Al-Hashem said the decision to stop issuing visas for Egyptians was a “correct decision, in light ...

3Mar

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Africa, Egypt, Health

Coronavirus: More than 20 cases in Egypt despite government insistence there are only 2

Egyptian school girls wear masks for protection against swine flu at a school in Cairo on October 4, 2009 [KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images]March 2, 2020 at 1:05 pm Sources have told the London-based publication Egypt Watch that they estimate there to be more than 20 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Egypt, contrary to official figures which put the number at two. Patients who have tested positive for the virus are being kept in military hospitals which are not subject to direct supervision by the Egyptian Ministry of Health, the report claims. This means that the statistics will not be recorded and the World Health Organisation will not necessarily be informed of confirmed cases. Egyptian media has been told it must not deviate from the official line when it com...

1Mar

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Africa, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Middle East, Palestine Affairs, Saudi Arabia, Sudan

Zionist Arab puppets Zionist secret history

Arab rulers and Israel's leaders: A long and secret history of cooperation Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been actively seeking closer relations and alliances with Arab rulers (Illustration by Mohamad Elaasar]2.8kShares In the last month, Israeli leaders have been actively seeking closer relations and alliances with Arab countries, including the Gulf states, Morocco and Sudan. These are states that, we are told, have finally seen the light and realised that Israel, unlike Iran, is their friend not their enemy. This is presented as some major change of heart on the part of Arab regimes, which had apparently always shunned relations with Israel in the interest of defending the Palestinians. This was always a fiction. Most of the 20th century'...