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Tuesday, 17 September 2019

Our tuk tuk woes have made it to the foreign press

Our tuk tuk woes have made it to the foreign press, with Xinhua reporting on the threatened livelihood of tuk tuk drivers who worry they won’t be able to afford the switch to a minivan. New tuk-tuks cost around EGP 34,000, while minivans start at EGP 90,000. Drivers are being asked to take up soft loans to cover the costs from the CBE. Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly called for the phasing out of new tuk tuks over the next three years, on the grounds that they are unsafe and unlicensed.

Other headlines to keep on your radar:

  • The friendly relationship between the leaders of Egypt and the US glosses over troubling human rights violations, Haaretz argues.
  • A group of women in Egypt is reportedly cutting the hair off other, non-hijab wearing women in public places like the Cairo metro, according to Vice Arabia.
  • Egypt’s expansion of its extradition requests with other countries over the past five months have “brought many terrorists to justice,” according to Asharq Al Awsat.
  • Ancient Egyptian mummies are being examined in a novel, and less invasive, way — by using body scanners outside of working hours at the UK’s Manchester Children’s Hospital, the BBC reports.

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