The drinking water shortages continue, causing citizens to take to the streets in Suez and Nasr City’s Ezbet el-Haggana, blocking highways while waving empty plastic buckets and clashing with the police.
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Labor updates
The Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch issued two reports, one on the protests by fish merchants in Suez, and the other on the downtown Cairo protests by 10th of Ramadan workers.
Also the Tadamon blog posted a solidarity call from the light bulbs manufacturing factory workers, owned by the Lebanese Egyptian tycoon Rami Lakkah, who are fighting for social insurance, and El-Badeel ran a report on escalating militancy among the northern fishermen, who are organizing a national conference next month.