Egypt
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Africa
Egypt’s Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship
A giant container ship the length of four football pitches has become wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal, blocking traffic in…
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Africa
Egypt’s football great Aboutrika fails to remove name from terror watchlist
The retired Egyptian footballer Mohamed Aboutrika – regarded as one of the best in the nation’s history – has lost…
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Africa
Egyptian woman detained for baking ‘indecent’ cakes
An Egyptian woman was briefly detained after being accused of baking “indecent” cakes, local media say. The cakes, topped with…
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Foreign
Saudi govt sacks 100 preachers for failing to condemn Muslim BrotherhoodÂ
The Saudi government has sacked 100 Islamic imams and preachers who gave sermons in mosques in Makkah and Al-Qassim because…
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Africa
Egypt President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi: Ruler with an iron grip
Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has been Egypt’s president since 2014, a year after he led the military’s overthrow of Islamist President…
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Africa
Zulum wants Egypt’s Al-Azhar to train Borno scholars, preachers
As part of activities lined up for his ongoing activities in Egypt, Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum was at…
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Africa
Egypt professor suspended for ‘insulting Prophet Muhammad’
A sociology professor in the Egyptian city of Alexandria has been suspended for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad while airing his…
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Africa
EndSARS: Egypt to deport Nigerians for protesting without permit
The Egyptian authorities have said that seven out of the eight Nigerians, who held EndSARS protest in Egypt on 18…
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Africa
Nigeria ‘has no hand in arrest of EndSARS protesters in Egypt’
The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa has said that Nigeria has no hand in the arrest of EndSARS…
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News
D-8 strengthens cooperation to tackle coronavirus pandemic
As countries of the world battle the COVID-19 pandemic and its huge disruption to livelihood, economy and health systems, the…