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New ban against torn jeans and excessive makeup at Menofiya University
A new college joined the Faculty of Agriculture at Alexandria University in its decision to ban students wearing inappropriate clothes from entering campus.
Dean of Faculty of Specific Education at Menofiya University, Hanan Yashar, issued a decision banning all clothes deemed ‘inappropriate,’ for both female and male students.
In statements to Al-Masry Al-Youm on Friday, Yashar said that the ban included torn jeans, over-done makeup and very tight clothes that show off too much of the body.
She added that she had warned students during the first two weeks of the school year, then security began to prevent them in the third week. The dean said whoever breaks the new rules will be referred to investigation.
Yashar pointed out that the campus has its traditions because it is a place of education. The new campaign includes preventing smoking for lecturers, students and employees.
Some students have expressed resentment towards the decision, as it harms their personal freedom. Yashar said that “personal freedom is not to hurt me when I look at you, whatever is contrary to ethics and customs is not freedom.”
Last week, Dean of Faculty of Agriculture at Alexandria University, Tarek Sorour, reportedly issued a decision banning torn pants and excessive makeup on female students.
The decision has sparked wide-spread controversy among Egyptian TV talk shows hosts, professors and rights activists.
Source : Egypt Independent
Intercept leaks: UAE spent $2.7m to improve Sisi’s image in US
The United Arab Emirates has reportedly been bankrolling efforts to improve the image of the Egyptian government in the US, according to leaked emails from the UAE ambassador to Washington.
Emails allegedly belonging to Yousef al-Otaiba, United Arab Emirates Ambassador in Washington DC, released on Wednesday in The Intercept, revealed that the UAE has been essentially covering the costs of a campaign to establish credibility for the regime of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
In 2013, Egypt hired public relations firm Glover Park Group to counter negative press at that time, which included a campaign run for the Egyptian Embassy in Washington DC, costing $2.25 million, and another campaign for the Egyptian presidency costing $485,000, according to an email addressed to Otaiba in July of that year sent by Richard Mintz, from the Washington-based PR firm Harbour Group, a known lobbyist for the UAE.
In December 2015, the UAE transferred a sum of $2.7 million to Cairo to cover the campaign cost, in fear of breaking the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) regulations that stipulate payments must be made by the contracting party, according to an email sent by Otaiba to GPG’s Managing Director Joel Johnson, who co-founded the Harbour Group in 2001 and worked there before joining GPG in 2005. Later, Johnson confirmed that his company had received $3 million from Cairo.
Earlier the same year, Richard Mintz of the Harbour Group, a firm that has worked as a lobbyist for the UAE for many years, emailed al-Otaiba a bill for the Egyptian contract amounting to $2,735,343.
Mintz told al-Otaiba that Glover Park Group would “like to get paid directly by the UAE. But they are still waiting on a final opinion from the FARA [Foreign Agents Registration Act] lawyers to see if it’s possible.”
Al-Otaiba emailed Glover Park Group’s Managing Director Joel Johnson six months later to inform him that the UAE transferred $2.7 million to Cairo, the lion’s share of the $3 million payment Egypt later made to the firm.
In addition to this, the leaked emails also show that al-Otaiba worked hard to whitewash Sisi’s image. Such efforts include lecturing journalists and think tank staffers on the benefits of having Sisi rule Egypt.
Other emails show al-Otaiba attempting to influence journalists that were critical of the Sisi regime.
“Labelling Sisi a harsh authoritarian dictator, without explaining the security threats that he’s up against, is simply an incomplete argument,” he told Politico‘s Michael Crowley, after he wrote an article in April 2017 slamming Sisi’s crackdown on Islamists.
During the April 2017 correspondence, Katulis told al-Otaiba that the Trump administration would likely ask Egypt to make security and counterterrorism a “top priority” and would want to discuss trade and investment. Katulis also added that the US administration would also ask Egypt to release some political prisoners, who had become an “unnecessary distraction from the important work.” Two weeks later, the Egyptian government released Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian-American activist accused of child abuse and human trafficking, after three years of detention.
UAE support was not limited to financial aspects — the leaks showed that Otaiba was “acting as a sort of de facto second ambassador for the country,” by attempting to sway public opinion. The aforementioned Politico article by Crowley included harsh criticism of Sisi for his brutal crackdown on human rights, Otaiba responded with an email accusing him of having “something against Sisi.”
Several media reports had revealed massive diplomatic and financial assistance from the UAE for Sisi’s government in the past few years. In July, an article published in the French magazine Télérama revealed that the UAE transferred a surveillance system worth Euro 10 million to Egypt, which the country had purchased from the French company Amesys in March 2014.
Source : Egypt Independent
Hot weather expected for Sunday, Cairo 33C
Meteorologists expect hot weather to prevail across most parts of the country on Sunday. Extreme heat anticipated in southern Upper Egypt during the day with milder temperatures in all regions in the evening.
Mist will affect visibility in the morning in different parts of the country. Low and medium level cloud cover is predicted in the North Coast and northern Lower Egypt, accompanied by light rain.
Winds are expected to be mostly northwesterly and moderate in strength, active in the western parts, blowing up sand and dust. Winds will possibly disrupt maritime navigation.
Waves in the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea will be moderate to rough and range from between 2 to 2.5 meters in height. Surface winds will be northwesterly in both seas.
Maximum temperatures predicted for the following cities are as follows; 33C in Cairo and 30C in Alexandria, 38C in Qena, 39C in Luxor, and 39C in Aswan.
Edited Translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
Source : Egypt Independent
Téléphonie mobile: des lignes suspendues
Depuis le début de cette semaine, certains abonnés ont vu leurs numéros désactivés après expiration de leur carte nationale d’identité.
«Identifiez-vous gratuitement avec votre carte nationale d’identité ou votre passeport », scandent des hauts parleurs installés à l’entrée d’une agence MTN à Yaoundé. Une foule de personnes y est agglutinée ce jeudi depuis l’aurore. Elle ne baisse pas, malgré l’intensité du soleil de 10h. Certains mettent leur patience à l’épreuve depuis la veille. Tous ont été frappés d’une suspension de leur numéro de téléphone. Le message pour la plupart d’entre eux est arrivé de leur opérateur le soir du lundi 02 octobre. Motif inscrit : CNI expirée et urgence de se faire identifier à nouveau. La suspension n’a pas tardé. La même nuit, certains étaient privés d’appels, de sms et même du service de mobile money.
Hier matin, à l’antenne MTN du quartier Biyem-Assi, plusieurs agents se sont mis au service de la centaine d’abonnés présents et exigeants. Certains en ont fait un business, feignant d’oublier le message diffusé par le haut-parleur. Pour revenir dans le réseau, il fallait débourser entre 250 F et 500 F, ou subir une file d’attente pendant trois heures sans l’assurance d’être servi à l’intérieur de l’agence. Unique condition, se présenter auprès de ces agents avec sa CNI ou un passeport.
Or, nombre d’abonnés étaient munis d’un récépissé en attente leur CNI. Document rejeté par les agents de l’opérateur mobile. L’alternative proposée était de fournir son passeport ou de se tourner vers un proche ayant une pièce valide. Sur place, les mineurs (moins de 19 ans) ont aussi appris leur incapacité à se faire identifier sans un tuteur. Autre information, toutes les personnes ayant des cartes SIM coupées pour être adaptées aux smartphones ont dû fournir la partie manquante pour donner le numéro qui s’y trouvait, ou encore attendre d’être reçues à l’intérieur de l’agence.
La même opération est effectuée chez les autres opérateurs de téléphonie mobile, notamment Orange, mais les abonnés n’ont pas forcément subi la suspension de leurs lignes. Ce jeudi matin, leurs agents arpentaient plutôt les ruelles pour actualiser l’identification des abonnés volontaires.
Cameroon-Tribune
Stabilisation Mission In CAR: Positive Contribution From Cameroon
The third contingent of the national defence forces who just returned from the UN Mission in the Central African Republic, CAR, have been praised by the Minister Delegate at the Presidency, Joseph Beti Assomo for their good performance. They were received yesterday 4 October, 2017 in Yaounde.
Cameroon-Tribune
Difficultés en Zone franc: des pistes de sortie de crise
Parmi celles évoquées hier à Paris par les ministres des finances, les gouverneurs des banques centrales et les présidents des institutions régionales, l’élargissement des assiettes fiscales.
Les ministres des Finances, les gouverneurs de banques centrales et les présidents des institutions régionales de la zone franc, étaient réunis hier à Paris autour de Bruno Le Maire, ministre français de l’Economie et des Finances dans le cadre de leur rencontre semestrielle. Au menu des travaux, l’examen de la situation macroéconomique dans les 14 pays ayant en partage le franc CFA, et l’Union des Comores.
Ce n’est plus un secret, l’Afrique centrale connaît des difficultés économiques et financières depuis quelques années. Et pour y faire face, les pays de la Communauté économique et monétaire de l’Afrique centrale (CEMAC), ne lésinent pas sur les efforts. C’est dans cette optique que quatre d’entre eux ont conclu un programme avec le Fonds monétaire international (FMI), pour trois ans. Les participants à cette rencontre ont également débattu des modalités d’une mobilisation plus accrue des recettes fiscales non-pétrolières. Il s’agit notamment de l’élargissement des assiettes fiscales, et du renforcement de la transparence et des capacités des administrations. L’harmonisation de certaines règles sous régionales et la bonne coopération pourraient également être utiles pour « un relèvement de la pression fiscale, permettant une dynamique favorable d’investissement et évitant un réendettement rapide », peut-on lire dans le communiqué de presse rendu public à la fin des travaux de Bercy. Selon des informations puisées à bonne source, 24 mesures ont été prises pour mieux appréhender la situation.
Et quand on voit la situation en Afrique de l’Ouest, l’espoir d’une embellie est permis. En effet, l’UEMOA se porte mieux que la CEMAC. En Afrique de l’Ouest la croissance devrait se maintenir à 6% à l’horizon 2020. « Bien au-dessus de la croissance moyenne des pays africains », indique le même communiqué de presse. Lequel précise que cette bonne performance est induite par le fait que tous les pays membres de l’UEMOA ont conclu un programme avec le FMI. Un programme qui contribue au renforcement de la gestion budgétaire et à la coordination des réformes mises en œuvre.
Cameroon-Tribune
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