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Egypt TM investigates 34 Railway Authority officials |
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Written by Egypt News
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
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Egypt's Transportation Minister Mohamed Mansour
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Egyptian Transportation Minister Mohamed Mansour referred 34 officials from
the Egyptian Railways Authority to an investigative committee looking
into the tragic collision of two passenger trains on Saturday.
Independent MP Moustafa Bakry asked the Cabinet to step down in an interview with BBC Arabic news channel on Monday.
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3 charged over Egypt train crash |
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Written by Egypt News
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
 Egypt has charged three railway workers with involuntary manslaughter
after two trains collided south of Cairo, killing 18 people.
The office of the general prosecutor says the two conductors and a
third man who was supposed to be monitoring the tracks but allegedly
abandoned his post were also charged with damaging public interest
Monday.
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Egypt universities students protests for Aqsa |
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Written by Egypt News
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
 The universities of Cairo, Alexandria, Mansoura and Minya witnessed
student demonstrations on Monday against the recent storming of
Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli security forces.
Campus security
guards clashed with students, some of whom set fire to Israeli flags.
The demonstrations overshadowed concurrent student union elections, which saw relatively low turnouts as a result.
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Egypt admits political responsibility for train crash |
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Written by Egypt News
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
A parliamentary transportation committee meeting held in the presence
of Minister of Transportation Muhammad Mansour witnessed a heated
debate over Saturday's train crash in Cairo's Ayyat district.
At the meeting, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Moufid Shehab
admitted that the government bore "political responsibility" for the
disaster. "Criminal responsibility, however, lies with those who didn't
follow the rules," he said.
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Nepotism part of Egypt culture: Mubarak |
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Written by Egypt News
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
Head of the ruling National Democratic Party's
influential Policies Secretariat Gamal Mubarak admitted on Sunday to the existence
of nepotism within the government.
"It is part of Egyptian culture," he said in an "open chat" broadcast
live on the Internet. "But we'll fight the phenomenon with more
stringent conditions for public office."
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