A Presidential advisor said Egypt will see a peak of coronavirus infections after two weeks, although a hypothetical model reviewed by the Minister of Scientific Research earlier suggests Egypt may start to record lower number of cases starting June 7th.

Mohammed Khater Ghamry has become the eighth person to die in an Egyptian detention centre this month after he was denied critical medical care for suspected coronavirus.

Egypt’s pro-regime media have launched a campaign against doctors fighting Covid-19, after the country’s largest medical union published a strongly-worded statement this week accusing the health ministry of “negligence”, resulting in the deaths of medics from coronavirus.

Egypt’s Ministry of Health announced Monday that it would launch an investigation into the death of 32-year-old obstetrician Dr. Waleed Yehia Abdel Halim who worked at Cairo’s Mounira General Hospital, according to Ahram Online.

The Egyptian government has expanded its crackdown on free expression to target YouTubers and social media influencers, particularly women, detaining and prosecuting several in recent weeks.

Egypt’s president pardoned on Saturday thousands of prisoners including a former policeman jailed over killing a Lebanese pop diva more than a decade ago, according to the official gazette.

Egyptian security forces arrested almost a dozen people on accusations of fabricating content for the Al Jazeera news network, the interior ministry said in a statement.

Egypt said Thursday it is willing to resume negotiations with Sudan and Ethiopia over the filling of a controversial mega-dam that has been a source of tension between all three Nile basin countries.

Hanan Adam arrived in Egypt as a refugee from Sudan five years ago. The 39-year-old lives with her seven children in 6th of October City and used to find work as a day laborer in various factories producing refrigerators and light bulbs before they started laying off Sudanese workers, she …

Under the projected worst case scenario for Egypt’s coronavirus outbreak, Higher Education Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar warned that the country could reach 100,000 cases by the end of this month.