Whether it’s owned by the state, or “independent” businessmen, Egypt’s front page headlines are all coined identically by the army’s Department of Morale Affairs.
Tag: sinai
‘War on infidels’
It was a pile of trash already, but it’s even getting worse since Yasser Rizk became the CEO of Al-Akbar, Egypt’s second largest state-owned newspaper.
Just to give you a sample, above is Al-Akhbar’s front page on 28 March, breaking the news about the Egyptian army’s heroic efforts to “abort a terror strike” on a security check point in Sinai’s Sheikh Zuweid’s area, as the “Apaches bomb a Houthi cell in Rafah that includes Palestinians and Iranians!”
And today’s front page runs a headline announcing the “martyrdom of 15 [Egyptian army] fighters and the liquidation of 27 infidels!”
Arish nurses protest to improve working conditions
Local nurses in Al-Arish Hospital are protesting over allowances, reports Sinai-based journalist Mona El-Zamlout.
احتجاج طاقم التمريض بمستشفي العريش العام للمطالبه بصرف حافز المناطق النائية أسوة بالمغتربين #سيناء_خارج_التغطية
— Mona El-Zamlout (@MonaZamlout) April 1, 2015