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  • Health Ministry denies bird flu-death in Sharqia

    Date: 2016-01-16 14:16:29 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:66 - ID:4125553

    ZAGAZIG, Egypt, Jan 16 (MENA) – Health Ministry on Saturday denied media reports that a citizen has died of a bird flu in Sharqia governorate. The reports are completely false and groundless, said head of the preventive medicine department in ....

  • School in Beheira named after Sinai martyr

    Date: 2016-01-16 12:53:51 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:55 - ID:4125057

    DAMANHOUR, Jan 16 (MENA) – Beheira Governor Mohamed Sultan decided to name a primary school in Abu Homos city after martyr Abdullah Ibrahim Shokr who was killed in a terrorist attack against a checkpoint in Sheikh Zuwied in Sinai. The residents ....

  • 2 feddans of opium eradicated in S. Sinai

    Date: 2016-01-16 06:45:31 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:8 - ID:4122717

    CAIRO, Jan 16 (MENA) - South Sinai police have eradicated two feddans of opium in Wadi Firan area. A number of persons had been planting opium and storing it in the mountainous area before troops eradicated the two feddans. All legal measures ....

  • 17 killed, wounded in car crash on ring road

    Date: 2016-01-16 06:40:32 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:6 - ID:4122713

    CAIRO, Jan 16 (MENA) - At least six people have been killed and 11 more wounded in a car crash on the ring road in Mounib. A truck collided with a taxi and a micro bus before the three vehicles fell off the bridge overnight Saturday. Traffic ....

  • Official engineer arrested over bribe in Assuit

    Date: 2016-01-15 18:18:33 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:83 - ID:4121805

    ASSUIT, Egypt, Jan 15 (MENA) - An engineer with a municipality in Assuit, south of Cairo, has been arrested by the administrative control authority over receiving a bribe of EGP100,000. The official, identified as Nadiya S., got the bribe from a ....

  • Suspected seasonal flu cases rise to 16 in N. Sinai

    Date: 2016-01-15 13:41:10 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:59 - ID:4120013

    ARISH, Jan 15 (MENA) – The number of persons suspected of suffering from seasonal flu in North Sinai rose to 16, medics here reported Friday. A medical source said 16 people were admitted to Beir el Abd Hospital with seasonal flu ....

  • Health ministry closely monitoring epidemic situation of bird flu virus

    Date: 2016-01-14 13:55:42 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:85 - ID:4114225

    CAIRO, Jan 14 (MENA) - The Health Ministry affirmed that it is closely following up the epidemic situation of the bird flu virus throughout Egypt's governorates. In a statement, the ministry said that there is close cooperation with the ....

  • River harbor at Damietta port operated

    Date: 2016-01-14 09:47:13 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:34 - ID:4111829

    DAMIETTA, Egypt, (MENA) - Chairman of Damietta Port Authority Ayman Saleh Ibrahim said on Thursday that the river harbor at Damietta port was operated to carry commodities to Cairo and Aswan via the Nile River. Saleh said the port has received ....

  • Giza gov.: New hygiene system to be announced within days

    Date: 2016-01-14 07:58:29 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:17 - ID:4111109

    GIZA, Jan 14 (MENA) – Giza Governor Mohamed Kamal el Dali said on Thursday that the features of the new hygiene system will be announced within the upcoming days. In statements to MENA, the governor said the system's specifics are currently being ....

  • Health ministry denies death of 2 cases suffering from seasonal flu in N.Sinai

    Date: 2016-01-13 15:27:23 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:113 - ID:4108313

    CAIRO, Jan 13 (MENA) - The Health and Population Ministry denied news fanned by the media about the existence of five persons suffering from seasonal flu in North Sinai and the death of two cases. The ministry said that there is only one case ....

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