Al Bawaba-The Qatari-based Al Jazeera Arabic satellite news channel has started broadcasting live from Egypt. This is the first time it has done so after it was banned eight years ago.
Al-Jazeera broadcasts live from #Egypt after 8 years of break.
— Mete Sohtaoğlu (@metesohtaoglu) July 31, 2021
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According to the Turkish news agency Anadolu Agency Al Jazeera began its first broadcast on Saturday. It added its offices in Cairo were closed on 14 August 2013 after security forces broke up demonstrations in Rabia and Al Nahda Squares in the Egyptian capital.
Qatar’s Al Jazeera television broadcasts live from Egypt after 8-year hiatus https://t.co/PGzNLzEWH4
— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) August 1, 2021
Veteran anchor Shareen Abu Aqleh, who normally reports from the occupied Palestinian territories made the first broadcast on 31 July reporting on the visit of the Algerian Foreign Minister to Cairo.
قناة #الجزيرة تبث من مصر بعد 8 سنوات من القطيعة، كتأكيد على القاعدة الأولى في السياسة وهي المصالح.
— Ahmed Elkomi 🇵🇸 (@ahmedelkomi1) July 31, 2021
Al Jazeera broadcasts from #Egypt after 8 years of break, as a confirmation of the first rule in politics, which is interests. pic.twitter.com/AhhPyLRoHR
Al Jazeera staff welcomed the first broadcasts direct from Egypt according to reports.
