Walking back from a Ministry of Supply storage house in Imbaba, Giza, Um Mohamed, 48, is helping her husband carry a box full of food rations that she was given in exchange for her vote.

The second day of Senate Elections kicked off at home on Wednesday. Queues of voters outside polling stations were seen as precautionary measures like sterilization gates were installed, disinfectants and masks were distributed among participants.

Egypt’s Senate elections began on Tuesday for two day nationwide amid strict precautionary measures, as poll stations opened their doors to voters under full judicial supervision.

Egypt’s Interior Ministry announced on Saturday that all its agencies have finalized the preparations necessary to secure the senate elections across the country.

The Parliament’s constitutional and legislative affairs committee announced it has approved, during a meeting on Tuesday, an amendment to the Penal Code to illegalise bullying in Egypt.

The Egyptian Parliament’s constitutional and legislative affairs committee initially approved, on Tuesday, a draft law that keeps the identities of sexual harassment and assault victims confidential. 

Egyptian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a draft law that would give survivors of sexual assault and harassment the automatic right to anonymity, under pressure to do more to encourage women to report such crimes.

One of the most notable differences between an authoritarian and totalitarian regime is that while the first seeks merely to nullify its enemies, the second seeks to nullify everything that functions autonomously of it – even if the thing in question poses very little immediate risk to the stability of …

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has approved legal amendments that restrict retired army officers from running in elections without permission from the military, according to an announcement in the official gazette on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

Egypt’s National Elections Authority (NEA), presided over by Lasheen Ibrahim, on Sunday announced the final list of candidates for the 2020 Senate elections.