Egyptian President Announces End of Emergency in Country

Egyptian policemen stand guarding a checkpoint on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, on July 26, 2018. Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced on Monday that the country will be coming out of a state of emergency declared back in 2017 after deadly church bombings.

Owing to “great people and loyal men, an oasis of security and stability in the region,” the president said on Facebook that “the state of emergency has been cancelled across the country.”