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
A seventy-year-old man paid 7,000 Egyptian pounds ($135.14) to an unlicensed practitioner who fitted his dentures on his home floor using a cup of water as sterilization, while another offered Zawia3 a tooth fitting for 600 pounds ($11.58) and home delivery. The Cairo Dentists Syndicate warns of tuberculosis and hepatitis transmission through unsterilized instruments
Egypt joined BRICS in January 2024 with a long list of promises. Two and a half years later, the data tells a more complicated story.
Egypt’s Civil Democratic Movement announced the abolition of its Board of Trustees and the appointment of Akram Ismail as General Coordinator, but the Constitution Party objected that the executive committee composition bypassed the General Secretariat, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party confirmed it will not return, and the Conservatives remain frozen and say they received no outreach about the restructuring
Tora Al-Balad residents protest against the surveying of their properties within a plan to develop 1,640 feddans along the Nile, aimed at converting prisons and factories into towers and hotels and offering 22 land plots to investors, amid two contradictory official accounts, with Cairo Governorate not responding to Zawia3’s questions before publication.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister declares that negotiations with Ethiopia over the GERD have “reached a dead end” and affirms the right to self-defense, as Ethiopia announces three new dams on the Blue Nile with a combined capacity of 5,700 megawatts and $10.5 billion in investments. Experts say Egypt has not yet exhausted its diplomatic, legal, and intelligence options
