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Nov 6, 2024 | 
madamasr.com | Moataz Hagag
Dozens of Sudanese students gathered outside the Egyptian Consulate in Port Sudan on Tuesday to call for the issuance of study visas that would allow them entry into Egypt, and for which the students have applied and paid. The consul had failed to respond to letters in which the students sought clarification regarding application status, according to students who participated in the protest and who shared their stories with Mada Masr.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
madamasr.com | Moataz Hagag
Four Sudanese journalists who hold refugee status in Egypt are facing an uncertain fate following their arrest by security forces in Cairo over a month ago. They were subsequently transferred to the Aswan Security Directorate in preparation for their deportation back to Sudan via the Qastal border crossing, a Sudanese source familiar with the incident told Mada Masr on condition of anonymity.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
madamasr.com | Moataz Hagag
“We’re afraid to drink tap water, and we can’t afford bottled water,” Nadia Hammad, a resident of Sadaqa al-Gadeeda neighborhood in Aswan, told Mada Masr, expressing a sense of panic and fear spreading about the safety of drinking water as a spate of cases of acute gastroenteritis emerges in Egypt’s south.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
madamasr.com | Moataz Hagag
Water began to return this week to Hurghada, the coastal city in the Red Sea Governorate, after a total outage that lasted 11 days, residents told Mada Masr. The disruption is one of many similar outages to affect areas of the country for varying periods of time in recent years, with supply and distribution issues impacting daily life and health conditions for those living in and around the city, which also caters to a large tourist population.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
madamasr.com | Moataz Hagag
Residents of the Sayala village in Aswan’s Nasr al-Nuba blocked the Aswan-Cairo agricultural road on Tuesday night to protest rolling blackouts amid record-high temperatures, according to two residents of the village who spoke to Mada Masr on condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
madamasr.com | Moataz Hagag
Dozens of Sudanese nationals have died of sunstroke in Aswan Governorate in recent days, according to medical and local sources. A heatwave that struck Upper Egypt last week has seen temperatures in Aswan reach as high as 49.6C, fatally impacting residents suffering overexposure to the sun, including many Sudanese nationals who have fled the year-old war in their country to Egypt.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Moataz Hagag |Mourad Higazy
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Aug 26, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Moataz Hagag |Mourad Higazy
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
madamasr.com | Moataz Hagag
A Health Ministry vehicle sprays disinfencant in the Qena village of Nagaa Sandal during an outbreak of Dengue fever - Courtesy: Mada Masr With scores of residents falling ill in Nagaa Sandal, a small village in Qena, suffering symptoms including vomiting, fever, and diarrhea, the Health Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that the viral infection is mosquito-borne Dengue fever.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
madamasr.com | Moataz Hagag
An Armed Forces officer is to stand trial on charges of premeditated murder and attempted murder after the military medic repeatedly drove his car into a family of five on Sunday in New Cairo.The incident took place in the upscale residential compound of Madinaty after one of the family’s three children bumped his push-scooter into a car belonging to the officer, scratching the vehicle.
