CAIRO: The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) decided to dispatch a military plane to carry the mission members of al-Ahly football team from Mali after Bamako airport was reopened for air traffic movement. In a press release on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Amr Roshdi, informed Bikyamasr.com that coordination between the Council and the [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Ismailia Criminal Court has adjourned the stadium massacre trial until May 5 and ordered that defendants be remanded in custody. The court will hold successive sessions starting on May 5 through May 9, to hear testimonies by the chief forensic doctor and prosecution witnesses. Defendants are accused of killing 73 and injuring 254 [...]
CAIRO: Violence has once again erupted in Egypt’s Port Said, following the funeral of the 13-year-old boy who was killed by security forces on Friday evening in violent clashes. According to eyewitnesses, massive amounts of tear gas has been launched at angry protesters and reports of clashes in the city are taking places in Egypt’s [...]
CAIRO: At least one protester in Egypt’s Port Said city was shot dead on Friday night as fans of the local club team clashed with security forces after the club was banned for two seasons. One eyewitness told Bikyamasr.com that “it was really chaos and scary as the guns were heard. I thought we all [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s top prosecutor charged 75 people with murder and negligence in connection with a deadly football riot last month that raged in Port Said. At least 74 people were killed in the February 1 riot, with another dozen deaths in the riotous protests that followed. Those charged include nine police officers and two minors. Among [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Football Association (FA) announced on Saturday that it was canceling the remainder of the premier league season as a result of the violence clashes following a February 1 football match in Port Said. The incident, the FA said, has left the country on edge and they did not see it prudent to continue [...]
DUBAI: Qatar security forces detained 12 Egyptian citizens following a football match between Egypt and Congo in the Qatari capital, Doha, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said on Saturday. According to the Cairo-based rights organization, the Egyptians were held for over 10 hours after they had been arrested for allegedly carrying banners [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Ahmed Hassan became the world’s most capped footballer ever on Wednesday when he came on in Egypt’s 1-0 victory over Niger. The 36-year-old midfielder came onto the pitch in the 87th minute during the Pharaoh’s victory in Qatar’s capital Doha, overtaking Saudi Arabia’s goalkeeper Mohamed al-Deayea with the most ever appearances for his [...]
CAIRO: Newly appointed Egyptian national football team coach Bob Bradley finally has a victory under his belt, with the Pharaohs routing Kenya 5-0 in a friendly in the Qatar capital Doha on Monday. It was the first Egyptian football match since fan violence on February 1 left at least 75 people dead in the worst [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s al-Ahly football club fans, known as Ultras, issued a statement on Facebook accusing Egyptian police of attempting to falsely accuse them of crimes and cases they are innocent of. “The ministry of interior is continuing in trying to intimidate us by accusing our group leaders of charges they are innocent of so we [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s al-Ahly football club announced it would grant each family of those killed in the February 1 violence in Port Said 50,000 Egyptian pounds as a first installment. A new office at the club’s headquarters in the Cairo neighborhood of al-Gezeera was formed to serve the families after a bank account was started to [...]
CAIRO: A number of al-Masry football club fans were arrested in the city of Port Said late on Thursday for their involvement in the violence that took the lives of 75 mostly al-Ahly club fans after a match between the two teams earlier this month. Al-Masry won the match 3-1 over al-Ahly, but during and [...]
CAIRO: A goodwill delegation of around 100 of Egypt’s thinkers, artists and media took a trip on Monday to the city of Port Said in an attempt to close the wedge between the seaside city and the rest of the country after violence at a football match in the city left 75 dead and hundreds [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s al-Ahly football fans, or Ultras, issued a statement Saturday night on the social-networking website Facebook calling for retaliations against the killers of 75 fans who died Wednesday February 1 in Port Said, demanding the cleansing of the ministry of interior, which they hold responsible for allowing the violence to take place. “This Wednesday [...]
CAIRO: Security forces have been blamed for the violence that left at least 75 people dead in post-football match violence in Port Said on February 1, a parliamentary committee investigating the attack said on Sunday. The full findings of the report are to be released later on Sunday when parliament returns to session. According to [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s national football team manager Bob Bradley said in an interview with Al-Jazeera news network that he believes, after speaking with leading football officials in the country, that the violence last Wednesday at a match in Port Said that left 75 people dead was not simple football violence. He argued that it did not [...]
CAIRO: American manager Bob Bradley, the current coach of Egypt’s national football team, expressed his sadness over the violence that left 75 people dead following an Egyptian league football match on Wednesday. Speaking to the Miami Herald newspaper on Friday, he said he had visited the al-Ahly club headquarters to talk with coaches, players and [...]
CAIRO: The world football governing body FIFA announced its deepest sorrow for the recent match violence that left 75 dead and almost 2000 injured following the Ahly and Masry match in the Egyptian city of Port Said. “Today is a black day for football and we must take steps to ensure that such a catestrophe [...]
CAIRO: A three-day conference took place in Cairo this week to discuss the successes and challenges surrounding young people and sport in Egypt. The conference was run by the British Council alongside the Ministry of Education, the National Sports Council, the Supreme Council of Universities, Egypt’s Olympic and Paralympic Committees and UNICEF. The conference sought [...]
Libreville, Gabon (dpa) – A minute’s silence is to be observed ahead of the quarter-final matches of the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea following the deaths of 74 fans at a local football match in Egypt, Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Issa Hayatou has said. In a statement issued late [...]
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