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News of Sinai
Sinai Residents Clash With Police At Protest Over Security Vacuum
Clashes erupted Monday between police and citizens in Al-Tur, the capital of South Sinai governorate, after a protest against the region's deteriorating security situation. Hundreds of Al-Tur citizens staged a protest at the governorate's security directorate following the kidnapping of Mostafa (...)

21 - 05 - 2013
NSF addresses Sinai crisis
The National Salvation Front (NSF) stated on Tuesday that its main concern is the preservation of Egypt's national security and sovereignty in Sinai. The military has been on high alert since the kidnap of seven soldiers in Sinai on Thursday. The kidnapped soldiers appeared in a video on Sunday, (...)

21 - 05 - 2013
Egyptian army kills militant in air raid: TV
A militant was killed Tuesday in North Sinai in an air raid launched by the Egyptian army as part of an operation to liberate seven kidnapped soldiers, according to Nile News, a state-owned television channel. The televised report added that three other militants were arrested and eight cars (...)

21 - 05 - 2013
Salafist jihadists deny involvement in Sinai kidnapping as military operation looms
Salafi jihadist groups denied any responsibility for the kidnapping of the seven soldiers being held hostage in Sinai. Often blamed by the media for being responsible for the kidnapping, the Salafist Jihadism movement in Sinai released a statement denying responsibility and instead blamed the (...)

21 - 05 - 2013
Morsi: Sinai kidnappers are criminals, not jihadists
President Mohamed Morsi assured attendees of the national dialogue he had called for that the seven kidnapped soldiers in Sinai would be released and that he had ordered the immediate resolution of the issue. Morsi had called for a national dialogue with political parties and leaders at the (...)

20 - 05 - 2013
Military and police deploy units and vehicles to North Sinai
The Egyptian military deployed 30 carriers transporting tanks as well as five busses carrying about 250 soldiers from the Second Field Army into North Sinai on Monday. Second Field Army Commander Major General Ahmed Wasfy himself made his way there alongside other military leaders and operational (...)

20 - 05 - 2013
Reactions to Sinai soldiers kidnapping crisis
Several political and social figures and organisations are tracing back the crisis of seven soldiers kidnapped in North Sinai last Thursday to years of segregation and injustice faced by residents of the peninsula. TV presenter Hamdy Kandil said that President Mohamed Morsi is responsible for the (...)

20 - 05 - 2013
Presidency denies negotiations with kidnappers
The presidency expressed outrage at the video released by the Sinai kidnappers with spokesperson Omar Amer calling it “appalling" and promising a decisive response at a Monday press conference. “We have not negotiated and refuse the very idea. However, all options are available and we are (...)

20 - 05 - 2013
Ahram Online returns after two hours of technical difficulties
The staff at Ahram Online would like to apologise to our dear readers who faced difficulties accessing the site between 4 and 6 PM (CMT). Our technical department raced against time to put us back in business. Stay tune for upcoming stories on the crisis of kidnapped soldiers in Sinai, new bank (...)

19 - 05 - 2013
Egypt's Irrigation Calls Sinai's People To Discuss Water Crisis
Dr. Mohamed Bahaa El-Din, Egyptian Minister for Water Resources and Irrigation, has called on Sinai's people, who are participating in Sinai Development Conference, to meet up in the Ministry's headquarters next Saturday in order to discuss the problems of water resources and irrigation in Sinai (...)

27 - 04 - 2013
Egypt's Prison Authority Pardons 885 Prisoners Ahead Of Sinai Liberation Day
Egypt's prison authority, which operates under the auspices of the interior ministry, has ordered the release of 885 prisoners from all 42 detention centres across the country. The move comes ahead of Egypt's Sinai Liberation Day celebrations on 25 April. Head of the prison authority Mohamed Nagy (...)

24 - 04 - 2013
Finance Ministry Raises EGP 7 Bln In 182-, 357-Day T-Bills
The Egyptian Ministry of Finance sold 182- and 357-day treasury bills worth EGP 7 billion on Wednesday. The Ministry raised EGP 4 billion and EGP 3 billion in 182- and 357-day T-bills, respectively. The yields on 182-day T-bills ranged from 13.420% to 13.669%, while the average return registered (...)

24 - 04 - 2013
EGX Of SMEs Ends Weeks With Stocks Mostly Down
The Egyptian Exchange of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) – NILEX has ended this week with stocks mostly down; 3 declined, while 2 steadied on Wednesday. The EGX management has announced that it will halt its session for Thursday on the occasion of Sinai Liberation Day. Al-Moasher for (...)

24 - 04 - 2013
Finance Ministry Sells EGP 500 Mln In 7-Year T-Bonds
The Egyptian Ministry of Finance sold 7-year treasury bonds worth EGP 500 million on Monday. The yields on the T-bonds ranged from 15.24% to 5.500%, while the average return registered 15.428%. The Ministry decided to advance an auction to sell 182- and 364-day T-bills worth EGP 7 billion to (...)

22 - 04 - 2013
Israel PM says attackers of Eilat will pay: spokesman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday the perpetrators of an attack on Israel's city of Eilat that occurred last week, his spokesman said. “PM Netanyahu: The terrorists who fired rockets at Eilat last week came from Gaza (and) used Sinai to attack an Israeli city. They will pay (...)

21 - 04 - 2013
BREAKING: Rockets hit southern Israeli resort of Eilat
Two rockets struck Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat on Wednesday, causing no casualties or damage, the city's mayor said. The mayor, Meir Yitzhak Halevy, told Army Radio that the rockets, apparently fired from Egypt's Sinai peninsula, struck open areas. Rockets were last fired at Eilat in (...)

17 - 04 - 2013
Lawsuit filed against former Brotherhood Supreme Guide
A number of North Sinai's prominent political leaders gathered and brought charges against the Muslim Brotherhood's former Supreme Guide Mahdi Akef, on Tuesday. Akef, in an interview with a Kuwaiti newspaper three days ago, made comments deemed offensive to residents of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. In (...)

16 - 04 - 2013
Government beefs up security in South Sinai
The army and Ministry of Interior have decided to increase security throughout checkpoints in South Sinai, according to state-owned Al-Ahram on Saturday. Major General Osama Askar, Commander of the Third Field Army, and Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim reportedly agreed to fortify existing (...)

14 - 04 - 2013
Kidnappers of tourists hiding in North Sinai's Maghara: Military source
Kidnappers of the two tourists have head to the Maghara district in North Sinai, said a military source in the third army to Ahram Arabic website. He also confirmed they are currently coordinating with the second army to track them down. Two tourists were kidnapped in South Sinai on Friday. The (...)

23 - 03 - 2013
BREAKING: 2 tourists kidnapped in Egypt's Sinai
Armed assailants kidnapped a Norwegian and an Arab Israeli tourist in South Sinai on Friday, reports Al-Ahram Arabic news site. The masked gunmen, who come from North Sinai according to police, stopped the victims' car on the road between Nuweiba and Dahab on Sinai's Eastern coast, forcing the (...)

22 - 03 - 2013
Army finds uniforms in Gaza tunnel
The Egyptian army found three rolls of fabric used to make army uniforms and two rolls for police uniforms in a tunnel between Sinai and Gaza on Saturday, according to a statement from the spokesperson of the Armed Forces on Sunday. The military said it found the materials in a tunnel in the (...)

17 - 03 - 2013
BREAKING: Britons kidnapped in Egypt's Sinai released
Two British expatriates employed by Exxon-Mobil were released on Thursday afternoon after having been held for a few hours by unidentified gunmen, Exxon-Mobil external affairs manager Nihad Shelbaya said. The Britons – 51-year-old Andy Wells and wife Caroline, 48 – were kidnapped early Thursday in (...)

07 - 03 - 2013
Morsi talks with Sinai leaders
President Mohamed Morsi is set to meet with residents of Sinai on Thursday at the presidential palace in Heliopolis. The delegation visiting the president includes the governor of North Sinai, his deputy, the head of development of North Sinai Major General Sayyed Harhour, and the head of the (...)

28 - 02 - 2013
CSF recruits accuse officers of brutality
Central Security Forces (CSF) recruits have accused officers at the Gabil military base Al-Tur in southern Sinai of beating new recruits. A young recruit named Muhammad Ramadan said: “Officers beat us and kicked us." He went on to say that was a response to the recruits' protest over maltreatment (...)

24 - 01 - 2013
Shura Council to pass election law and refer it to SCC
The Shura Council has said it will vote on the parliamentary elections law and send it to the Supreme Constitutional Court by the end of its Saturday session. The upper house of parliament was originally meant to vote on the proposed bill on Thursday but walkouts by Salafi Al-Nour Party, the second (...)

19 - 01 - 2013
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