EGYPT: Labour Unions Shake Off Old Masters
CAIRO, Aug 16, 2011 (IPS) – The trade union federation that ex-dictator Hosni Mubarak used to repress labour movements and mobilise regime support for sham elections during his 30-year rule ...
Egypt Embraces Oil Monarchs, Dubiously
CAIRO, Jul 18, 2011 (IPS) – With the nation’s economy in tatters from the uprising that ousted its dictator of 30 years, Egypt’s transitional government has turned its back on ...
EGYPT: Fishing Dangerously for Quick Net Worth
ALEXANDRIA, Jul 11, 2011 (IPS) – Ali Mohsen knows how to tell a good fish story. The wiry, white-haired Egyptian mariner weaves a yarn about his childhood days when the ...
Muslim Brotherhood undergoing generational rift in Egypt
The Muslim Brotherhood’s future in Egypt Youth coalition seeks to help Egypt transition to a civil democratic stateSome younger members say they feel isolated from the Islamist organization”Our motives are ...
Egypt Rejects IMF Conditions
CAIRO, Jun 30, 2011 (IPS) – Egypt has canceled plans to borrow 3 billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund because of conditions that violated the countrys national sovereignty and ...
EGYPT: Solar Energy Projects Picking up Again After Uprising
CAIRO, Jun 22, 2011 (IPS) – On a blazingly hot summers day in Cairo, its 36 degrees Celsius in the shade. Air-conditioners and fans whirr across the city, burdening the ...
Egypt spy allegations against Israeli questioned
CAIRO — Friends and relatives of a U.S.-born Israeli arrested in Egypt on spy charges stated Monday he is a law student in Atlanta with an avid interest in the ...
Egypt Sounds Alarm on Economy
CAIRO, Jun 2, 2011 (IPS) – Egyptian officials are warning that the country, just emerging from a popular uprising that ousted the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak, could be ...
Egypt general admits ‘virginity checks’
Egyptian protesters get virginity tests? 17 women were arrested at a March 9 protest in Cairo, after Mubarak’s ousterA senior Egyptian general states some of them were subject to “virginity ...
Worker strikes add to Egypt turmoil
CAIRO — Thousands of say workers and impoverished Egyptians went on strike Wednesday after weeks of anti-government protests cast a spotlight on corruption and the wealth amassed by those in power ...
