Egypt
Egypt’s transport minister began a meeting with railway staff on Saturday, 14 November, with a minute of silence. He then apologized to the families of the people killed or injured when two trains collided south of Cairo last week. The minister, Kamel al-Wazir, promised to finish a set of safety upgrades within a year. The pledge puts new pressure on a rail network with a long record of fatal accidents, and it comes as prosecutors look into how a passenger…
