The Confederation of African Football, CAF on Tuesday, announced Egypt as the hosts of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) tournament after their executive meeting in Dakar, Senegal. South Africa and Egypt were the only two nations to submit bids for the tournament, which is only five months away from kicking off, after Cameroon…
Terrorism: The Challenge Of Deadly Weapons
By Bobson Gbinije “And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by His side come hot from hell, shall in these confines With A Monarch’s voice, cry ‘Havoc’ And let slip the dogs of war”. — Shakespeare (in Julius Caesar) Dogmatic blandishments, doctrinaire sophistry, religious extremism and systematic political indoctrination etc, have unleashed…
Egypt Apologises For Mistakenly Killing Mexicans
The Egypt government has apologised after 12 people, including eight Mexican tourists, were mistakenly killed on Sunday by security forces in an anti-terror operation. Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab offered his apologies in a phone call to the Mexican ambassador in Cairo, “I have phoned Mexican Ambassador Alvarez Fuentes to reassure him that the injured…
Egyptian Court Upholds Morsi’s Death Sentence
Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday has confirmed the death sentence for deposed president Mohammed Morsi for orchestrating a prison escape during the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time ruler Hosni Mubarak. Prosecutors charged Morsi and other leaders in the Muslim Brotherhood for conspiring with foreign Islamist organisations to storm prisons during the 2011 uprising. Muslim Brotherhood…
Egypt Court To Retry Mubarak
Ousted Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, has been ordered to stand trial all over again over the killing of protesters in 2011 by an Egyptian appeals court. The former president was cleared in a retrial in November 2014 after he was initially jailed for life over the death of 800 people during the revolution. He was…
Egypt: German Tourist Killed In Shark Attack
The Egyptian Police has confirmed the death of a German tourist in the country. He was killed in a rare shark attack off the Red Sea resort on Sunday. The shark reportedly bit off the 52-year-old man’s leg at the knee. The attack, which took place off the coastal city al-Qusair, is the first of…
Egypt: Al Jazeera Journalists Trial Adjourned Again
An Egyptian court has adjourned the trial of Al Jazeera journalists, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, till March 19, after witnesses of the prosecution failed to appear in court. Their first hearing on February 23 was postponed – also because witnesses did not show up in court. Fahmy and Mohamed were charged with aiding the…
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Get Death, Life Sentences
An Egyptian court has sentenced four members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood organisation to death while 14 others were handed life imprisonment. Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and his deputy Khairat al-Shater were among those sentenced to life imprisonment on Saturday, along with former lawmaker, Mohamed el-Beltagy and party head Saad el-Katatni and his deputy,…
Egypt Jails Prominent Blogger And Activist
A prominent blogger and pro-democracy activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, has been jailed by an Egyptian Court for five years after his retrial for violating protest law on Monday. He was previously given a 15-year jail term in the case over his alleged role in a 2013 protest. The activist came into the limelight and gained…
Egypt Court Overturns Mubarak Fraud Convictions
An Egyptian court has overturned the fraud convictions of former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons and ordered a retrial. Mubarak was imprisoned for three years in May 2014 after he was found guilty of fraudulently billing the government for $14m of personal expenses. But the court has now ruled that legal procedures were…
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