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Egyptian students clash with police over second mass food poisoning in one month
Dozens of enraged students have blocked the Nasr Road in East Cairo, close to their university’s dorms. The act was met with tear gas on the part of the police, who tried to disperse the crowd and re-open the congested road.The students all became sick following a meal of tuna and vegetables, according to one student’s testimony to Ahram Online news website.This is the second major case of food poisoning to affect the same dormitory in just the month of April. On April 1, around 500 people had been poisoned by the food at Azhar University’s cafeteria. This had also led to mass demonstrations, in which the students demanded, among other things, the sacking of a Grand Imam responsible for the religious educational framework at Azhar. They were heard chanting against him, according to Al Jazeera.Instead of what the students wanted, however, the President of the university was sacked, leading to an investigation that remains open today.Egypt’s Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has said he wants a fresh investigation.Founded over a thousand years ago as a center for Islamic learning, Azhar University was among the first in the world to combine multi-disciplinary learning with religious subjects and survive as a modern university. Today it is the foremost center for the study of Arabic literature and Islamic thought in the world. … Read More
Egyptians seize pyramid sites for use as cemeteries
By Patrick Kingsley, The Observer Archaeologists fear for pyramid sites as illegal building gathers pace in wake of Arab spring In Manshiet Dahshur, 25 miles south of Cairo, the villagers recently extended the boundaries of the cemetery. For Ahmed Rageb, a carpenter who buried his cousin in the…
Judge withdraws from Mubarak retrial
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The presiding judge in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has withdrawn from the case and referred it to another court.
This means that there is now an indefinite adjournment of the proceedings in Cairo because Judge Mustafa Hassan Abdullah said he felt “unease” in reviewing the case.
The former president is facing a retrial after he appealed a sentence of life imprisonment for the conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 revolt that lead to the end of his 29 year rule. Over 800 people lost their lives as a result of the crackdown.
Hosni Mubarak is in poor health and is being held at a military hospital in Cairo. The former interior minister Habib al-Adly and six security chiefs are in the dock again facing these charges.
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Egyptians suffer cuts and queues as fuel crisis bites
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The news from Egypt since 2011 has been dominated by politics, upheaval, and religious tensions, but daily needs are becoming a pressing concern.
Since the 2011 revolution Egypt has struggled to import oil as government deficits have risen and its creditworthiness has plunged. The result has been fuel shortages, and in the past few weeks power cuts in many places, including Cairo. Queues are lengthening at petrol stations with supplies.
“Goods vehicles and minivans use kerosene, and we need a solution. The gas stations are overcrowded. I’ve just come from the main national station where there are long queues on both sides of the street,” said one driver.
“This affects us badly and stops us working. We wait in long queues every day. I hope God helps us, we are very tired and we waste so much time getting fuel,” said another.
The IMF is pressing Egypt to cut fuel subsidies and rein in public spending if it wants financial assistance, but tax collection is failing and a black market can charge exorbitant prices where there are few alternative sources of fuel.
“The lack of fuel is a challenge for ordinary Egyptians trying to live from day to day, specifically petrol and kerosene, on which electricity generation depends. For the first time the transportation sector is being hit, yet Egypt still exports to neighbouring countries, while suffering shortages itself,” says euronews’ Mohammed Shaikhibrahim.
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Is Egypt ready for its own Jon Stewart?
CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt’s judiciary created an international firestorm when the top judge summoned the country’s foremost political satirist in for questioning this week.The comedian, Bassem Youssef, uses his weekly satirical news show — which is based loosely on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” — to “insult the president” and “insult Islam,” the complaint filed against Youssef said. Youssef was released on $2,200 bail as investigations continue.Critics are calling it an unprecedented assault on free speech in post-uprising Egypt, with even the US State Department and Jon Stewart from “The Daily Show” weighing in to support Youssef. The responses caused a diplomatic tiff in which the official Twitter account of Egypt’s presidency chastised the US Embassy in Cairo feed for posting “The Daily Show” clip criticizing President Mohamed Morsi.Continue Reading… … Read More
U.S. embassy in Cairo ignites diplomatic troubles by tweeting link to Jon Stewart
The US embassy in Cairo briefly froze its Twitter account Wednesday after coming under fire from Egyptian leaders for tweeting a link to a US comedy show mocking President Mohamed Morsi. The embassy, which is a vociferous user of Twitter, shut down the account and deleted the tweet, which had…
