CAIRO-17 September 2021: Former Liverpool Spanish winger Luis Garcia was full of praise for the club's Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah after his strong start to the new season. Garcia represented Liverpool between 2004 and 2007 and he used to occupy the right flank for the Reds, which is Salah's favourite position in the attacking line. The Egyptian has been instrumental with the Reds this season, having scored in four of his five appearances. Garcia believes that Salah has changed his game to be more prolific, saying "You don't see him making those 50-yard runs, beating players and putting it in the top corner. Salah netted his 100th Premier League goal last week against Leeds United and he is four goals away from dethroning Didier Drogba as the African player with most goals in the Premier League

On Friday morning, Egyptian actor Karim Fahmy was taken to a private hospital after suddenly suffering from two pulmonary embolisms (lung clots). The actor’s wife, Dania al-Banawy, posted a photo of her husband in the hospital’s intensive care unit on Instagram, asking his fans to pray for him. She wrote: “God willing, it will pass, and you will be safe.”Recently, Fahmy released the movie “Dido”, co-starring Hamdy al-Mirghany, Bayoumy Fouad, Mohamed Tharwat and Hoda al-Mufti. The script and dialogue were by Fahmy and was directed by Amr Salah. Fahmy contracted coronavirus in December of 2020, but he announced a full recovery one month later.

United Nations Security Council members voted in unison on Friday to renew the political mission in Afghanistan. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) will continue for another 6 months. The mission mandate will deal with humanitarian efforts and development among other issues, and will not involve peacekeeping. The document stressed “the important role that the United Nations will continue to play in promoting peace and stability in Afghanistan.”Importance of a ‘representative government’ stressedThe United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) tweeted a copy of the resolution. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been asked by the 15-member council to provide “strategic and operational recommendations for the mandate of UNAMA, in light of recent political, security and social developments.”Those recommendations are due by January 31, 2022.

CAIRO-17 September 2021: Liverpool boss Jürgen Klopp refused to comment on the ongoing negotiations between the club and their Egyptian star Mohamed Salah to renew his contract. The Egyptian's contract with the Reds expires in 2023 summer and the club could not reach an agreement with the winger despite their obvious desire to tie down their Egyptian star. "There's nothing really to say, especially from me as I am not involved. The Egyptian has been instrumental with the Reds this season, having scored in four of his five appearances. Salah netted his 100th Premier League goal last week against Leeds United and he is four goals away from dethroning Didier Drogba as the African player with most goals in the Premier League.

He said the agency offers loans and grants to the MSMEDA via Egyptian banks to promote entrepreneurship, especially among women, within the framework of women political empowerment. He made the remarks on Friday during a five-day media tour organized by the AFD to highlight several projects in various governorate, including Fayyoum. The MSMEDA seeks to extend financing to those who deserve in accordance with a number of set standards, he said. He noted that the employment rate in Egypt reached 60 percent in accordance to official statistics and reports. He noted that the AFD in collaboration with the MSMEDA managed to fund 7,039 projects in various Egyptian governorates generating 17,620 jobs.

Egypt’s Ministry of Immigration and Egyptian Expatriates Affairs released information on how travelers can get a vaccine approved at their destination before their trip. Youm7 published the steps required to attain the appropriate vaccine. Travelers must fill out this form. The form asks for the location where the person received their first vaccine, contract information, and other basic information such as name and address. The form is called “For travelers with the purpose of work or study who have previously received an vaccine that is not approved in the country of travel.”The form also requires travel information, passport copies, and where the traveler wants to receive the vaccine.

CAIRO – 17 September 2021: The US administration, under President Joe Biden, signed an executive order on Friday that allows further sanctions against parties involved in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict. This comes amid reports of atrocities committed by the Ethiopian forces in Tigray and that continue to emerge from the afflicted region. The new executive order, therefore, allows the US administration to take punitive action against the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments as well as the TPLF and the Amhara regional government. This comes in case they continue to pursue military conflict over negotiations, Reuters cited senior US administration officials as saying. The US has earlier called for a negotiated end to the Tigray conflict in many occasions and for aid access to Tigray.

US President Joe Biden on Friday issued an executive order that allows for sanctions on parties “complicit in prolonging” the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. The fighting has left thousands of people dead and millions more in need of humanitarian aid. “The sanctions are not directed at the people of Ethiopia or Eritrea, but rather the individuals and entities perpetrating the violence and causing a humanitarian disaster,” the statement continued. The order establishes a new “sanctions regime targeting those responsible for prolonging the conflict, obstructing humanitarian access or preventing a ceasefire,” it added. Although no deadline for Ethiopian leaders has yet been set, senior Biden administration officials told news agencies they expected progress on negotiations in the coming weeks.

Rich countries are making little progress towards meeting their pledge to provide annual climate change mitigation funds, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said on Friday. “The limited progress in overall climate finance volumes between 2018 and 2019 is disappointing, particularly ahead of COP26 (the UN climate summit in November),” OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann said. According to the OECD, Germany and Canada are moving forward a plan to mobilize the additional finance required to reach the $100 billion annual goal. The international community committed to providing the annual funds during a 2009 UN climate summit in Copenhagen. The topic is expected to be high on the agenda at Novermber’s climate summit in Glasgow.

CAIRO - 17 September 2021: Russia and Egypt have reached a preliminary understanding concerning compensation for the families of the victims who were killed in the terrorist attack that targeted a passenger plane flying over Sinai in 2015. “The Russian Embassy in Cairo managed to reach a fundamental understanding with the Egyptian partners on this issue. In late October 2015, a bomb downed a Russian flight carrying holidaymakers from the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board, mostly Russian tourists. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State terrorist group. More Russian airlines opened regular flights between Russia and Sharm El-Sheikh and Hurghada, Russian news agency TASS reported, citing the Federal Air Transport Agency as saying in August, 2021.

General view of a banner in the stands before the match, ReutersSept 17 (Reuters) - Manchester United's full-year loss widened as pandemic-induced lockdowns hammered matchday sales and commercial revenue, the soccer club said, while not setting financial targets for the year due to continuing uncertainty. The English soccer club’s last two financial years were marred by lockdowns that disrupted sporting calendars and kept fans away from stadiums for extended periods, taking a heavy toll on matchday sales. Total revenue for the year ended June 30 was down 2.9% to 494.1 million pounds ($681.41 million), while annual matchday sales plummeted 92.1%. The English soccer club said its net loss for the year ended June 30 was 92.2 million pounds, compared with a loss of 23.2 million pounds in the year-ago period as the onset of COVID-19 in 2020 disrupted all walks of life globally. The loss was inflated by a one-off taxation issue with the company's income tax expense for the period surging to 68.2 million pounds from 2.4 million pounds a year earlier.

The Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) predicted that hot, humid weather will prevail throughout the country from Friday until Sunday. According to meteorologists, temperatures in Cairo and the Delta will hover in the low 30s during the day with humidity ranging between 40 and 50 percent. The weather will be warmer in Upper Egypt and South Sinai and cooler along the North coast. Mist is predicted in the morning on roads leading to and from Cairo, the Delta, and the North Coast. After Sunday, temperatures will increase again.

Investigators confirmed that a woman who fell to her death from the sixth floor of City Stars Mall on Thursday committed suicide. Investigators confirmed no criminal suspicion behind the incident and rather said the woman was arguing with her father, as he confirmed during the investigation. She was last seen by her friend Naira at a cafe in the mall at 5 pm. Naira confirmed to investigators that Mayar was very depressed and felt that her family was persecuting her. “Mayar told me that she wanted to commit suicide, but I did not imagine that she would actually commit suicide,” Naira said.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s highest court on Friday denied an application by former president Jacob Zuma to rescind his sentence of 15 months in jail for contempt of court. Friday’s judgment was read out by Justice Sisi Khampepe at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. She said it was a majority decision of 7-2 judges to uphold Zuma’s sentence. The 79-year-old Zuma argued his sentence was improper because, among other things, he had been jailed without trial. ___IMAGE: In this Sunday, July 4, 2021 file photo, former President Jacob Zuma addresses the press at his home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.

In Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi won that country’s first post-Arab Spring elections in 2012. After all, this isn’t the first time the demise of Muslim Brotherhood affiliates has been mooted, they told DW. And they are tremendously resilient.”At first, Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Bana was largely apoliticalThe Muslim Brotherhood is a Sunni Muslim group first founded in 1928 by Egyptian teacher Hassan al-Banna. It has inspired groups and political parties throughout the Middle East, including in Jordan, Bahrain, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Palestine and Algeria, among others. She has studied the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and its exiles in depth.