Egypt’s permanent delegate to the United Nations in Geneva and the current head of the Conference on Disarmament Hisham Badr on Tuesday 21/2/2012 called for the continuing and increasing efforts to make the world free from nuclear weapons. He stressed as well Egypt’s concern with having the Conference on Disarmament tackle objectively essential issues on the agenda which pertain to nuclear disarmament and space armament race.
Cairo — The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and the Centre to Support State of Law (CSSL) deeply deplore the ongoing restraints and flagrant censorship on mass media and channels owners for their targeting of media professionals who criticize the authorities’ violations. Most recently, the administrative board of Modern Hurriya channel cut off the live broadcasting of Mo’taz Matar’s show “Mahattet Masr”. Matar was addressing the activities of the State Security Investigations Service and the restrictions he was subjected to during Mubarak’s rule.
Rome — A new US$9.13 million project, supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the government of the Kingdom of Morocco will increase the incomes of 33,000 smallholder farmers, livestock producers, poor rural women and young people involved in the production of olives, apples and lamb meat in the mountain zones of Al-Haouz Province. An agreement for a $6.38 million loan and a $140,000 grant by IFAD to finance the Agricultural Value Chain Development Project was today signed by Hassan Abouyoub, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco, and Kanayo F.
A year after the uprising, Egypt’s security forces continue to kill protesters with the same brutal tactics used in Hosni Mubarak’s last days in power, Amnesty International said after concluding that riot police yet again used excessive force in policing protests in Cairo and Suez. The protests earlier this month followed the Port Said tragedy in which more than 70 football fans from Al-Ahly club were killed after a football match on 1 February. The organization found that, between 2 and 6 February, the Ministry of Interior’s Central Security Forces (riot police) used excessive force, including firearms, to disperse angry protests, killing at least 16 people and injuring hundreds of others
The Cairo University Hospitals alone received some 269 injured people during the protests as well as seven of the 11 deaths that took place in the capital. Most of those injured were suffering from tear gas inhalation or injuries from shotgun pellets, which, in some cases, caused rupture to the eye globe.
Cairo — The ongoing crackdown by Egypt’s military rulers on a handful of civil society groups accused of receiving illegal foreign funds has far-reaching implications for the estimated 40,000 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in the Arab world’s most populous country.
The Primary Court of Tunis has recently issued the first capital punishment sentence since the ousting of Tunisia’s former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. The judge presiding over the case sentenced the defendant to death by hanging for the murder of a high school student in Manouba on March 20, 2011
Juba — An Egyptian delegation interested in building a pharmaceutical factory is in South Sudan to explore the opportunity. The national deputy minister for Health Hon Dr Yatta Lori Lugor met with the delegation led by Dr Mohamed Awad Tag Eldin, a former minister for Health who is now the chairman of Pharmaceutical Company in Egypt
CYPRUS based Ugandan international Geoffrey Massa has been ruled out of the Uganda Cranes’ international friendly against Egypt on February 26th at the Gouna stadium, Hurghada within the Red Sea Resort City. Cranes’ head coach Bobby Williamson told a technical meeting at Mandela National stadium that the striker has a club fixture on the same date but will join his teammates in Congo Brazzaville
U.S. Senator John McCain (Republican-Arizona) delivered the following statement at a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, on February 20: “I am Senator John McCain from Arizona, and it is a pleasure to return to Cairo.
