Celebrations
Sisi called on “partners and friends to mobilize efforts to stop the bloodshed and restore calm and stability to the region.”
During a cabinet meeting, Madbouly stated that the major event would be attended by a large number of kings, presidents, and prime ministers. He instructed that the airports receiving Egypt’s distinguished guests be fully prepared and heightened to the highest level of readiness.
Police Day commemorates resistance by Egyptian police to British occupation forces in Ismailia in 1952, which resulted in the death of dozens of police officers.
The Egyptian Ministry of Interior on Tuesday tightened up security measures and raised the state of preparedness to secure Christmas celebrations.
The plan includes the deployment of forces and patrols on the highways, and road axes, in a way that contributes to the speed of security response, movement and containing any emergency matters.
In a social media post on Friday, Sisi said that such “pleasant occasion brings us together on the love of the homeland and affirms that we are on the path of citizenship”.
“Let us continue to work together to further deepen, strengthen and expand our friendship of cooperation in the next 75 years,” he concluded.
Some people thanked policemen and policewomen for sharing these happy moments, according to a statement by the Ministry of Interior.
The security directorates have implemented an intensified security plan to secure the celebrations through intensive security deployment in all road axes, squares, important installations and places of worship.
Egypt’s Ministry of Interior began its security preparations to secure the celebrations and maintain a safe atmosphere for citizens during the days of Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice).
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The Interior Ministry has deployed police forces intensively nationwide, to secure the celebrations of Muslim’s 4-day Eid Al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice), during which Muslims slaughter sheep and cows and give meat to the poor.
A total of 6,505 areas were allocated for performing the prayer and appointed 13,000 Imams to give the Eid sermons nationwide. Some of the allocated praying areas were set in vicinity of some churches.
The ministry said it declared a state of emergency in various hospitals to receive all cases during the four-day Eid.
Egyptians either bake Kahk at home or buy it at the bakery. Thus, bakeries are crowded in the last few days of Ramadan with Kahk buyers.
Sham el Nessim is an Egyptian spring festival dating back to the paranoiac third dynasty of the Old Kingdom (2,700 BC).
Thousands of Egyptians head to national parks and gardens across the country to celebrate the Pharaonic festival of Sham el-Nessim.
Tania Kassis performed before President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and charmed the audience with “Ave Maria"
New York's Times Square erupted with fireworks and cheers at the stroke of midnight on Tuesday as thousands of hardy merrymakers braved pouring rain and watched the glowing New Year's Eve ball.