has been bombed. (Photo: Egyptian state-television covers the blast.] The explosion occurred on Wednesday near the northern Sinai Peninsula town of Al-Arish. The contract to sell gas to Israel, which buys 40% of its natural gas from Egypt, has been a topic for discussion since the unrest which ousted Ho

Bedouins know their land more than the authorities and have secret escape routes," said Mohamed Sabry, a local journalist from the northern town of Al-Arish. "No one knows the desert better than us Bedouin," said Bedouin rights advocate Said Abdel-Hadi from the Sawairka tribe, the largest tribe in EFTA