Egypt

CAIRO, Feb 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Former president of Egypt Hosni Mubarak died today at Cairo’s Galaa military hospital, Egypt’s Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported today.

He was 91. The Egyptian presidential office is expected to organise the funeral.

Mubarak was in power from 1981 until he was overthrown in 2011 amid the region’s Arab Spring protests.

CAIRO, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi discussed on Monday with heads of Arab intelligence services the ways to combat terrorism, extremist ideology and organized crime in the region.

In a statement, Presidential Spokesman Bassam Radi said Sisi met with the heads of the Arab intelligence services who had participated in the Arab Intelligence Forum held in Cairo on Feb. 22-23.

25 Feb 2020; MEMO: Ahmed Abdel Moneim Qandil, 35, has become the fourth person to die in an Egyptian prison this month from medical negligence.

Qandil, a social and psychological education specialist with two children, who had previously been detained in 2015, received a phone call on 14 January from a national security officer asking him to attend a routine follow-up, as he had done several times before.

CAIRO, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Egypt welcomed the formation of a transitional unity government in South Sudan, hoping it would lead to comprehensive peace in the country, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

The statement expressed "Egypt's hope that this step would generate the necessary push to implement all the items of the revitalized peace agreement to achieve permanent and comprehensive peace in South Sudan."

CAIRO, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian court acquitted on Saturday Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, the sons of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, in a corruption case, state-run Ahram Online news website reported.

According to Ahram Online, the Cairo Criminal Court acquitted Alaa and Gamal, and others, in the case known in the media as "manipulating the stock exchange."

The defendants faced charges of violating the rules of Egypt's stock exchange market and the Central Bank of Egypt.

CAIRO, Feb 23 (NNN-MENA) – An Egyptian court acquitted Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, sons of ousted Egyptian president, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, in a corruption case, state-run Ahram Online news website reported.

According to Ahram Online, the Cairo Criminal Court acquitted Alaa and Gamal, and others, in the case known in the media as “manipulating the stock exchange.”

The defendants faced charges of violating the rules of Egypt’s stock exchange market and the Central Bank of Egypt.

18 Feb 2020; MEMO: Last month the Egyptian army began construction of a new separation wall on the border shared with the besieged Gaza Strip, allegedly to reinforce security in the Sinai Peninsula, Israeli media revealed earlier this week.

CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s warring sides have agreed to implement a long-delayed and major prisoner swap, the United Nations said on Sunday, in a sign that talks to end the disastrous war between the country’s internationally recognized government and its Houthi rebels could be making progress.

It would be the “first official large-scale” exchange of its kind since the beginning of the conflict in the Arab World’s poorest country, according to the U.N.

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s transitional government said Thursday it has reached a settlement with families of the victims of the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, a key step in having the U.S. remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism so it can rejoin the international community after years of exclusion.

Copies of the agreements obtained by The Associated Press show that $70 million will be split among families of 17 people killed, as well as 15 sailors who were injured and two of their spouses. In the agreement, Sudan makes no admission of wrongdoing.

13 Feb 2020; MEMO: Human rights advocates are not safe in Egypt, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said earlier this week, noting that they are regularly detained and tortured.

In a statement, HRW said that there has been a “serious escalation” against human rights activists and groups.