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Victory for opposition on gas export deals

Posted on 09/06/200807/02/2021 By 3arabawy

From the Daily News Egypt:

Bowing to pressure from the opposition, Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy announced Sunday that the government will revise its natural gas export prices and will not sign new exportation contracts until the end of 2010.
Since the latest energy price hikes kicked-in this year, experts and opposition members have been calling on Fahmy to amend the prices on all existing gas contracts, saying Egypt’s rate is below the current international market prices.
Several opposition parties have also opposed the idea of exporting gas to Israel as a matter of principle.
“We will review prices of natural gas in all agreements without any exception,” Fahmy said on Sunday.
Although in his statements the minister did not specifically focus on the gas agreement with Israel, government newspapers reported that Sunday’s PA session was devoted to debating this specific deal.
According to Abdallah Helmy, coordinator of the popular campaign to prevent Egyptian gas exports, who was present at the session, the government has reached a consensus that “we don’t have enough gas to sign any new export deals.”

Kefaya organized a demo in front of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, to denounce Mubarak's foreign policy vis-à-vis Israel's war on Lebanon. Demonstrators demanded the expulsion of Israel's ambassador to Cairo. Photo by Nasser Nouri ​, 6 August 2006​

Palestine Hospital workers on strike

Posted on 09/06/200811/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Workers at the Palestine Hospital, located in Cairo’s Heliopolis district, are on strike.

The child labor behind your Egyptian cotton sheets

Posted on 09/06/200806/02/2021 By 3arabawy

They work 10-hour shifts in 40C heat for 20 pence a day. Their job? Picking the cotton that makes the world’s finest bed linen. Read the Guardian report on the scandal of Egypt’s child laborers.

And you can watch more photos of cotton agricultural workers here.

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