Over 500 students suffer food poisoning in Cairo
More than 500 students from Cairo’s Al-Azhar University suffered food poisoning after eating at a student hostel, Egyptian Health Ministry reported on Tuesday. Media reports put the number of a...
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What’s new in Egypt’s 2012 charter? The highlights
Troubled Egypt now has a brand new constitution after it was approved by voters in a two-stage referendum in December. The 2012 charter replaces the 1971 charter that was suspended after the uprising...
Former female Gadhafi bodyguard stabbed to death in Egypt
Egyptian authorities on Tuesday confirmed that Zahraa al-Bouaishi, a former female body guard of the late ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, was found dead in her Cairo city apartment over the wee...
Egypt protest traps Nigeria’s Sunshine stars in hotel
CAIRO (Reuters) – A protest by Egyptian soccer players angered at the suspension of their domestic league briefly prevented Nigerian side Sunshine Stars from leaving their Cairo hotel on Sunday...
Egyptian newspaper “Fights Cartoons by Cartoons”
An Egyptian secular newspaper, Al-Watan has released a 12-page special section dedicated to “confronting thought with thought” in the wake of protests against the amateur anti-Islam film ...
Anti-Islam film made by US religious group, convicted fraudster and di...
Reports have revealed that the anti-Islam film, which has sparked outrage and deadly protests in the Muslim world, was produced US religious group called Media for Christ and directed by a pornograph...
Four arrested over Benghazi killings, updates on investigations
Libyan officials have arrested four people in connection with the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, the CNN reported on Friday. Monem Elyasser, the chief aide to...
Security heightened in Jos, Kaduna and Kano following Libya, Egypt att...
Security operatives have intensified patrols in flashpoint cities in the north after deadly attacks by extremists in Libya and Egypt have left four Americans dead. There are reports that fundamentali...
US embassy in Nigeria issues warning following Benghazi killings
Militant attacks on US embassies in Libya and Egypt has prompted the US embassy in Nigeria to issue a warning on Thursday to Americans in the country. In the “emergency message” the embas...
20 killed as Egypt military helicopters strike in Sinai
Security officials in Egypt have confirmed that military helicopters have fired missiles on suspected Islamist militants near the town of al-Arish in the Sinai peninsula, the BBC news reported. The m...