Items related to Minya

Minya residents protest over disappearance of 4 young women
Al-Masry Al-Youm 08 Mar 2012
Dozens of Minya Governorate residents gathered in front of a police station Thursday to protest four young women’...
Car 9 of Cairo-Aswan train in which a policeman opened fire randomly at passengers, Samalout, Minya, January 12, 2011. A day eralier, a policeman opened fire at passengers at Samalout, Minya stop, killing one and wounding five. Later, investigations showed policeman had mental disorders and was medically unqualified to carry weapons.
Labor protests in Upper Egypt disrupt trains
Al-Masry Al-Youm 06 Mar 2012
Workers from the Nile Cotton Ginning Company in Minya, Upper Egypt blocked the railways on Tuesday, protesting frequent...
State of emergency declared in Minya over foot-and-mouth disease outbreak
Al-Masry Al-Youm 06 Mar 2012
Foot-and-mouth disease, a viral infection that infects and kills cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals, has spread in...
Trade and smuggling of Pharaonic antiquities in Egypt
Sixty-eight artifacts seized in Minya
Saeed Nafea 05 Mar 2012
The antiquities and tourism police in Minya, Upper Egypt, seized 68 artifacts from the Greek and Roman eras from a shop...
Tuk tuk brawl leads to death of 3, imposition of curfew in Minya villages
Al-Masry Al-Youm 20 Feb 2012
The number of people who died from clashes that broke out on Sunday between residents of two villages in the township...
Marmina Monastery, Maryout, Alexandria.
Security services thwart sectarian strife as church reopens in Upper Egypt
Al-Masry Al-Youm 15 Feb 2012
Security services in a village in Minya, Upper Egypt, on Wednesday managed to prevent the escalation of sectarian...
Egyptians queue with their cars at a petrol station, Cairo, January 16, 2012 amid fears of an oil shortage.
Customers burn Minya gas station in fuel shortage fight
Al-Masry Al-Youm 15 Feb 2012
Several customers set a gas station south of Matay city in Minya Governorate on fire Wednesday after fighting with...
Siwan women selling garments to tourists on the 6th of October holiday.
Violence against women costs Egypt an annual LE150 billion
Egypt Independent 13 Feb 2012
A research paper prepared by Hamdi al-Henawy, professor of social economy, has shown that violence against women costs...
Qena residents protest over new governor
Egyptians across the country protest for better working, living conditions
Al-Masry Al-Youm 09 Feb 2012
Many Egyptian governorates on Thursday witnessed protests demanding better living conditions, better work conditions...
Crisis of butane gas cylinders, Mansoura, Dakahliya, January 16,2012.
Butane shortage protest halts Upper Egypt rails
Egypt Independent
MENA
02 Feb 2012
Minya residents protesting the shortage of butane gas cylinders blocked train traffic in Upper Egypt Thursday. “...