EGYPT: Population Growth Overtakes Literacy Rise
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By Cam McGrath
LUXOR, Mar 12, 2010 (IPS) – Literacy programmes are teaching millions of Egyptians to read, but are struggling to keep up with the country’s high population growth.
"Egypt is one of the most challenging countries for any literacy programme," a literacy programme administrator at Catholic relief [...]
EGYPT: U.N. Slams Abuse of Emergency Law
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William Fisher
NEW YORK, Mar 11 (IPS) – Despite diplomatic maneuvering designed to block any review of its human rights record, a United Nations special rapporteur has told the U.N. Human Rights Council that proposed changes in Egypt’s constitution ”would create a permanent legal state of emergency”.
The report [...]
EGYPT: Economists Blame ‘Neo-liberalism’ for Region’s Woes
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Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO, Jan 18 (IPS) – Egypt embarked on ”neo-liberal” economics more than three decades ago reorienting its socialist-oriented policies towards those of the ”free market.” Now, however, many critics call the strategy a failure and blame it for the country’s rampant poverty and [...]
VIEWPOINT: Egyptian Regime ‘The Most Repressive To Internet Users’
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BY KAREEM EZZAT*
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
(IDN) – “Egypt has become the most repressive country to internet users in the Arab world,” the Cairo-based Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has reported.
The Egyptian regime “has stopped the policy of blocking websites five years ago and now directs its repression [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Morocco, Egypt Greet OECD-MENA Declaration
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BY JEROME MWANDA
IDN-InDepthNews Service
MARRAKESH (IDN) – Morocco and Egypt have welcomed a new ‘Declaration on Governance and Investment’, adopted at a ministerial conference titled ‘beyond the crisis: business and citizens at the centre of policy responses’ in the Moroccan capital.
The declaration emerging from two-day talks [...]
HEALTH-EGYPT: Over the Top With Anti-Swine Flu Steps
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Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO, Nov 18 (IPS) – As authorities consider suspending a whole academic year to check the spread of swine flu among school children there is a feeling that measures to contain the H1N1 virus – known to be less dangerous than the one [...]
EGYPT: A Big Catch Feeds Millions
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By Cam McGrath
CAIRO, Nov 1 (IPS) – As the sun rises over the Nile delta, workers at a fish farm in northern Egypt open a sluice gate and sort through the thousands of wriggling tilapia that pour out of a concrete holding tank. The fish are sorted, packed [...]
MIDEAST: Egypt Makes Cultural Clout Count
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By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani
CAIRO, Oct 29 (IPS) – Egypt has long been recognised as the cultural trendsetter of the Arabic- speaking world. Despite recent challenges to this role with the advent of satellite television, experts say that contemporary Arab culture remains largely defined by Egyptian [...]
EGYPT: ‘Do Us A Favour, Mr. President – Just Go’
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BY FAREED MAHDY*
Republished with permission from IDN-InDepthNews Service
ISTANBUL (IDN) – Two new civilian ‘revolts’ have gained ground in Cairo: the one pushing for declaring Egypt unambiguously a secular country; the other asking President Hosni Mubarak neither to run for a new term nor to promote his son Gamal to succeed him, [...]
RIGHTS-EGYPT: Invoking Religion Against Liberals
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By Cam McGrath
CAIRO, Oct 19 (IPS) – Self-appointed guardians of public morality are invoking an ancient instrument of Islamic jurisprudence against those whose ideas they deem immoral or heretical – or simply to gain fame.
"We are concerned about the huge rise in the number of hisba cases [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Cairo Sinking in Garbage
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By Cam McGrath
CAIRO, Sep 18 (IPS) – Garbage collectors in Cairo’s Giza district have resumed work, but it could take weeks to clear the 25,000 tons of garbage that accumulated during their month-long strike, and longer still to solve the underlying problems.
"We’re drowning in garbage," says Hany [...]
HEALTH: Swine Flu Hits Ramadan Gatherings
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By Cam McGrath
CAIRO, Aug 23 (IPS) – Muslims marked the start of the fasting month of Ramadan Saturday, but the global H1N1 pandemic has put a damper on religious festivities throughout the Middle East.
"Everyone is worried about swine flu," says Anwar Mohamed, a Yemeni antique dealer. "We have been told [...]
US-MIDEAST: Cairo Speech Widely Hailed at Home
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Ali Gharib and Jared Levy
WASHINGTON, Jun 4 (IPS) – U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic speech in Cairo Thursday elicited broad approval from around the U.S., with the notable exception of the neoconservative right.
Obama’s speech itself was largely uncontroversial. Broad in scope and thin on policy specifics, Obama frankly acknowledged a [...]
EGYPT: Muslim Brotherhood on the Mat
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By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani
CAIRO, Jun 3 (IPS) – Several leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood opposition movement stand accused of plans to form an "international network of organisational cells." Its leaders say the charges are blatant fabrications.
"We’re used to trumped-up charges," says Saad Al-Husseini, [...]
EGYPT: Cyber Insurgency Rattles Regime
EGYPT: Cyber Insurgency Rattles Regime
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By Cam McGrath
CAIRO, Jun 2 (IPS) – Egyptian cyber-dissidents are becoming increasing vocal in their online criticism of President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, utilising a widening repertoire of Internet networking and publishing tools to expose government abuses.
“The media used to be controlled by the state and it [...]
EGYPT: ‘Obama Talks Democracy, Endorses Dictatorship’
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Analysis by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani
CAIRO, Jun 5 (IPS) – Egyptian officials are lining up to praise U.S. President Barack Obama’s address to the Islamic world delivered in Cairo Thursday. But local campaigners for political reform say the speech was disappointingly light on the issues of [...]
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