Happenings in Egypt .... June 2014

Without comment.

From Reuters:
.....Gunmen kill four Egyptian soldiers  in North Sinai: state media.
Gunmen killed four Egyptian soldiers belonging to the central security apparatus near Rafah in North Sinai on Saturday, state media reported....

Thousands of African refugees left Israeli open air prisons and marched across the desert to Egypt yesterday. pic.twitter.com/gX7JAvt5B0
— joseph dana (@ibnezra) June 29, 2014

 From GlobalNews:
....Egypt to restrict Ramadan sermons,   further stifling political speech.
Egypt will restrict Ramadan sermons to the topics of faith and morality, in the latest move aimed at limiting political speech in the deeply polarized country.
Religious Endowments Minister Mohammed Mokhtar Gomaa said Sunday the decision should ensure that sermons during Islam’s holy month of fasting “unite people, not divide them.”.......

#Egypt judges arrive hours late, wear sunglasses in court, leave w/out announcing decisions...destroying their credibility all on their own.
— Yasmin El-Rifae (@yasminelrifae) June 29, 2014

 From WSJ:
...Two homemade bombs placed in a government construction site on the outskirts of Cairo exploded on Saturday, killing a teenage girl and her mother, officials said.
The explosion tore through a government telecommunication building under construction in 6 October district, a security official said. The 15-year-old girl's mother, the wife of the building guard, was wounded in the blast and died later.........