Cairo: Egyptian President Abdul Fattah Al Sissi has reduced the night curfew in the Sinai Peninsula by three hours, the media reported on Tuesday.
“The curfew will be cut by three hours. It will start at 7pm instead of 5pm until 6am, instead of 7am,” spokesman of the Egyptian president Ambassador Ala’a Yousuf was quoted by the state-run Al Ahram daily as saying.
On October 25, Egypt announced a three-month curfew and a state of emergency in some parts of North Sinai following a blast targeting a military checkpoint in North Sinai’s Shaikh Zuwaid city, leaving more than 30 soldiers dead and dozens others injured, Xinhua reported.
The decision came after Al Sissi’s meeting with leaders of North Sinai earlier on Tuesday.
Yousuf said that such a decision is meant to relieve the sufferings faced by North Sinai residents.
Egypt has been witnessing unstable political conditions since Islamist president Mohammad Mursi’s removal by the military in July 2013 following mass protests against his one-year rule and the following massive security crackdown on his loyalists that left nearly 1,000 killed and thousands more arrested.
