Cairo outburts
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Andy Carvin is a senior strategist at NPR working on digital media. He's known for putting together comprehensive and innovative packages around breaking news stories, and for the past three weeks, his Twitter stream has been a non-stop curation of the Egypt protests. Carvin has turned himself into "a personal news wire for Egypt."
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Isn’t it funny that when things happen, as they do in Egypt right now (and let’s not forget it, in other places, too, there’s unrest in Yemen as well, things are happening in Jordan, even Syria) all those discussions about how photojournalism is dead are … well, absent? Isn’t that most curious? Maybe that’s because everybody is too busy looking at the photos taken by those people whose profession supposedly is dead?
Noor Group, Egypt's last Internet service provider, shuts down | Technology | Los Angeles Times
Renesys, an IT company in New Hampshire that helps Internet service providers monitor the security of Web networks and infrastructure, reported the Noor drop-off this morning on its blog . The Egyptian government shut down nearly all access to the Internet within its borders Friday in an effort to stop the growing protests against the government of President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak has been in office for more than 30 years. The move has been met with condemnation from human rights groups and Internet companies alike and on Friday President Barack Obama called on Mubarak and his government to turn Internet access back on, saying that access should be restored to social media websites, which have been used as tools to organize demonstrators throughout the protests.Égypte
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From our headquarters in Doha, we keep you updated on all things Egypt, with reporting from Al Jazeera staff in Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez. Live Blog: Jan28 - Jan29 - Jan30 - Jan31 - Feb1 - Feb2 - Feb3 11:54pm In an Open Letter to President Obama , a large group of well-reputed American academics calls for the US leader to demand swift change in Egypt: For thirty years, our government has spent billions of dollars to help build and sustain the system the Egyptian people are now trying to dismantle.
Live blog 30/1 - Egypt protests | Al Jazeera Blogs
British nationals in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez are being told to leave if it is safe for them to do so, following days of violent protests across Egypt. After discussing the crisis on Sunday, the two leaders said the north African country needed a comprehensive process of political reform, a Downing Street spokeswoman said. Several flights to Britain have been cancelled, people are unable to use the internet to book, and schedules have been affected by the curfew imposed in the city. The curfew in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez was extended by an hour on Sunday night to run from 1500 to 0800 local time rather than 1600 to 0800, Egyptian state television reported. Most of the 20,000 UK tourists in Egypt are in Red Sea resorts, which the FCO considers to be safe. The UK Foreign Office is warning against all non-essential travel to Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and Luxor, and say that anyone "without a pressing need" to be the first three of those cities should leave if it wass safe for them to do so.
BBC News - UK citizens told to leave Egyptian cities after unrest
Egyptian soldiers show solidarity with protesters as Mubarak appoints VP
CAIRO - Under the protective gaze of Egyptian soldiers, thousands of demonstrators converged on this capital city's central plaza Sunday and vowed to occupy the site until President Hosni Mubarak steps down. But even as the gathering gained strength, fears rose across Cairo of mass looting after sundown by armed thugs who were widely believed by Egyptians, as well as by soldiers, to be operating at the behest of the nation's much-maligned Interior Ministry.