The Media Line Staff 04/21/2021
The head of Egypt’s railway authority was fired in the wake of several deadly train accidents. The move by the country’s transportation ministry came on Tuesday, two days after a train accident near Cairo in which four of the train cars were derailed, killing 11. Egyptian citizens had already called on social media for the resignation of railways authority head Ashraf Raslan.
Some 10 positions in Egypt’s transportation ministry, most in the railways department, were shuffled on Tuesday
Raslan and 23 railways employees were summoned on Tuesday by General Prosecutor Hamada el-Sawy over Sunday’s crash, The Associated Press reported. In addition, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi announced the establishment of an official commission to investigate the causes of the accident.
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan trade barbs amid stalled Nile dam talks Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia exchange accusations over the stalled talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, at a time when all parties are on alert to see whether Addis Ababa will proceed with the dam’s filling in the absence of an agreement.
Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly, his Sudanese counterpart, Abdalla Hamdok, and other officials meet in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on March 11, 2021. Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia have been locked for almost a decade in inconclusive talks over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, which broke ground in 2011.
Turkey remains opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood being declared “terrorists” by Egypt despite a recent push to repair strained ties between the two countries, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday.
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