Egypt

27 October 2022; MEMO: Social media users have responded to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's speech at the Egypt 2022 Economic Conference with tweets and posts mocking his call on citizens to "go to the zoo to understand the reality of the situation in Egypt and see the magnitude of deterioration, facilities, negatives and exhaustion," which they found vague and illogical.

CAIRO, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Eight people were killed on Monday in a road accident in Egypt's northern Beheira Governorate, the Egyptian Ministry of Manpower said in a statement.

The ministry said the eight people were killed when a truck collided with a tricycle on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road, adding that two others were critically injured in the accident.

The victims, all day laborers, were on their way to a farm in the Wadi al-Natroun area in Beheira Governorate to work, the statement said.

CAIRO, Oct 21 (NNN-XINHUA) – On the well-known Tahrir Square, in downtown Cairo, over 20 orange-colored bicycles were lined up, at a docking station for public sharing, as the first bike-sharing project was inaugurated in the Egyptian capital yesterday.

21 October 2022; MEMO: The government in Cairo called on Thursday for an immediate end to Israeli attacks in the occupied Palestinian territories and urged the international community to help calm the situation.

21 October 2022; MEMO: Climate activist Greta Thunberg has said on Twitter that she has signed a petition calling on the Egyptian government to release political prisoners ahead of COP27.

Her support comes amid criticism that large green groups have not spoken out about the human rights situation in Egypt ahead of the UN summit.

CAIRO (AP) — A towering blaze at a notorious prison housing political prisoners and anti-government activists in Iran’s capital killed four inmates, the country’s judiciary said Sunday.

Flames and smoke rising from Tehran’s Evin Prison had been widely visible Saturday evening, as nationwide anti-government protests triggered by the death of a young woman in police custody entered a fifth week. In online videos, gunshots and explosions could be heard in the area of the prison.

The blaze was extinguished after several hours and no detainees escaped, state media said.

CAIRO (AP) — At least 10 child leukemia patients in Yemen have died, and dozens more left seriously ill, after being administered expired doses of a cancer treatment in the rebel-held capital, medical officials and workers said on Friday.

Yemen’s ruinous conflict, now entering its eighth year, has caused one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and killed in excess of 150,000 people.

CAIRO, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia rejected as "not based on facts" criticism of an OPEC+ decision last week to cut its oil production target despite U.S. objections, and said on Thursday that Washington's request to delay the cut by a month would have had negative economic consequences.

12 October 2022; MEMO: Egypt is pushing to tie up a crucial financial package from the International Monetary Fund at annual meetings in Washington this week, hoping to stem a currency crisis that has restricted imports and sparked market unease over foreign debt repayments, Reuters reports.

11 October 2022; MEMO: The annual consumer price inflation rate in Egyptian cities reached 15 per cent in September, its highest level in nearly four years, the state-run Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) reported yesterday.

This is the highest annual rate of consumer price inflation in Egypt's cities since November 2018, when it recorded a rise to 15.7 per cent.