POEA suspends deployment of OFWs to Egypt

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) temporarily suspended the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to strife-torn Egypt.
 
According to POEA Governing Board Resolution No. 06, promulgated on July 12, the sending of new-hires is postponed until the situation in Egypt improves.
 
“Now, therefore, the POEA Governing Board, in a meeting duly convened resolves as it hereby resolved, to impose a temporary suspension on the processing and deployment of newly-hired OFWs bound for Egypt,” the order said.
 
The resolution was issued after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on July 8 raised the Alert Level in the strife-torn nation to 2.
 
Under Alert Level 2, only the deployment of returning OFWs with existing employment contracts will be allowed while the deployment of newly-hired OFWs will be suspended.
 
The order was signed by Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, chairperson, together with POEA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac, vice chairman and members, Felix Oca, Estrelita Hizon, Alexander Asucion and Milagros Cristobal.     

Protests in Egypt

Tens of thousands of Egyptians marched on Cairo's streets in the early hours of Saturday to demand ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi be reinstated, but there were none of the deadly clashes that swept Egypt a week ago.
 
Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood called on Friday for "a day of marching on", and 10 days after the military overthrew Egypt's first freely elected president, large crowds descended on the capital waving flags and chanting slogans.
 
A week earlier similar scenes of protest turned violent when pro- and anti-Mursi demonstrators clashed in cities and towns across the country, killing 35 people and widening the rift between Egyptians on different sides of the political divide.
 
Three days after that, Egypt was left reeling again when soldiers opened fire on a group of pro-Mursi demonstrators outside the Republican Guard compound in Cairo where he is being held, killing 53. Four soldiers also died.
 
The powerful military blamed the confrontation on "terrorists". Mursi's supporters call it a massacre and say those who died were praying peacefully when troops opened fire.
 
The army denies Mursi's overthrow was a coup, saying it ousted him to enforce the will of the people after millions took to the streets at the end of June to demand his resignation.
 
The Brotherhood contends it is the victim of a military crackdown, evoking memories of its suppression under autocrat Hosni Mubarak, toppled in an uprising in 2011.
 
However, many of its opponents blame Islamists for the violence, and some have little sympathy for the demonstrators who died, underlining how deep the fissures in Egyptian society are. - with a report from Reuters, VVP, GMA News

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