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Fromer Egyptian autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak died this Tuesday at the age of 91, nine years after a revolution flashed him out of power. State TV announced the death of the man who ruled Egypt for 30 years, without revealing Read more
Egypt’s Administrative Control Authority (ACA) Monday announced that they arrested the head of Egyptian customs suspected for bribery and allowing banned goods to enter the country. The ACA is Egypt’s highest anti-corruption agency. The watchdog said Gamal Abdel-Azim faces Read more
Populations in the Matrouh province are being encouraged to cast their votes at the coming presidential election later this month with businessmen in the province offering 500 free Umrah pilgrimage trips to voters, reports say. Egyptians are called to polls Read more
Former army chief of staff Sami Anan Tuesday cancelled his bid to challenge Abdelfattah al-Sisi in March election after the army arrested him over accusations that he failed to fulfill conditions to allow him to run. Anan, according to his Read more
General Sami Anan, Chief of the army under Hosni Mubarak, announced he would bid for the top position in March Presidential elections. The announcement came just days after military comrade Ahmad Shafiq abandoned his presidential plans. Anan is proposed by Read more
The Egyptian National Election Authority (NEA) Monday set March 28-29 for the presidential polls that incumbent leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to dominate after his likely main challenger Ahmed Shafiq threw in the towel on Sunday. The commission led Read more
Former Egyptian notorious interior minister and security chief Habib al-Adly has been advising Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman in his purge against royals and elites despite the home court verdict pressed against him for corruption, reports say. Al-Adly, 79, has Read more
An Egyptian cassation court Wednesday lowered the prison sentence against activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years and dropped an accompanying term of hard labor. The defendant had been previously sentenced to 15 years in prison for challenging a protest Read more
The Egyptian private newspaper Al-Bawaba could not print its Sunday edition, after the media chided the security establishment for its reluctance to arrest Habib al-Adly, former interior minister under ousted Hosni Mubarak, sentenced to prison over state funds embezzlement charges. Read more
Fuel and energy prices in Egypt have increased significantly on Thursday as the country deals with its economic and financial crisis triggered by the mass protests that brought an end to the government of Hosni Mubarak and a coup d’état Read more