Wastewater, salinity, parasites and fishing pressures complicate Lake Qarun’s recovery. Researchers explain why cleaning the lake and releasing young fish cannot succeed without controlling pollution at its source.
Families in Matrouh face long waits, weekly journeys to Alexandria and out-of-pocket medicine costs as reliable local blood-disorders care remains out of reach.
Sudden mass fish deaths at Lake Manzala and Diba Triangle farms leave owners facing multimillion-pound losses, amid questions about pollution and environmental change and calls for investigation and compensation.
Six journalists whose lawyers and families have not known their whereabouts since the evening of September 28, a single security statement that produced within forty-eight hours a media narrative appearing to share uniform vocabulary, leaked phone calls, and a detention report that the prosecution never issued.
Issue 23 of Deleted Lines documents September 2026
Egypt paid off $6.1 billion in oil arrears to foreign partners in June 2026, but experts say fuel prices will not fall: pricing follows Brent crude and the dollar, not production levels, and the government has already cut the petroleum subsidy budget by 79%, while gas production continues to decline and the IMF flags EGPC’s heavy debt load despite the clearance.
The Endowments Authority offered the 41,000-square-metre park to property developers. The local MP then challenged the offering’s legality, saying the site’s master plan allows construction on only 5% of its area.
Hurghada residents wait eight days for water and pay up to EGP 500 per cubic metre on the black market, as tourism expands faster than the city’s water infrastructure.
19 licensed building materials traders from Qalyubia have been held since December 2025 on terrorism charges, with lawyers and rights organizations saying the only link between them and the case is selling bricks, cement, and sand to Warraq Island residents. Four young men from the island were separately sentenced to ten years each on the same grounds
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