Electoral violence increased 1000 pct in 20 years
CAIRO: Electoral violence has risen 1,093 percent since 1987, according to a field study conducted by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights. The study, entitled "The Impact of Election Violence…
Social Affairs employees demand transferal to Solidarity Ministry
CAIRO: Around 200 employees from the social affairs offices - which report to their respective governorates - demonstrated Sunday in front of Mogamaa El-Tahrir, to campaign for both a rise…
Cable cut brings internet traffic to a standstill
CAIRO: Egypt's information highway was moving at a crawl Wednesday due to a failure in the deep water fiber optic cable that travels beneath the Mediterranean Sea, linking Egypt with…
MCIT to compensate internet subscribers
CAIRO: Internet subscribers in Egypt will be compensated for the service disruptions caused by the damage of the two undersea cables last week, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology…
Egypt briefly detains AFP journalists in Rafah
RAFAH: Security forces briefly detained an AFP journalist and photographer in Rafah on the border with the Gaza Strip for a couple of hours on Sunday. Plainclothes police officers erased…
Doctors demand new law to hike salaries
CAIRO: The Doctors' Syndicate General Assembly decided in a meeting on Friday to hold protests starting next week demanding a new law that would increase doctors' salaries, according to Dr…
Chelsea connection clicks for Nigeria, Ivory Coast
ACCRA: Nigeria bounced back from the brink to sneak into the African Nations Cup quarter-finals on Tuesday but the door to the last eight closed on Mali. The two countries…
Manucho and co out to spike Egypt's title defense
KUMASI: Manchester-United new recruit Manucho and surprise-package Angola face five-time defending champions Egypt today in an intriguing African Nations Cup quarter-final. Angola have never progressed so far in the biennial…
Sports Talk: Keep your shirt off
We interrupt what would have been a story on the Africa Cup of Nations to bring you this special report. We re still in Ghana but we focus on what…
An about-turn on book fair censorship
Publishers at the 40th Cairo International Book Fair said on Wednesday that the authorities had allowed them to sell a number of Western and secular books that were forbidden only…