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22 reports and spoiled food destroyed in a campaign on El Isnawi and El Ahwazi streets
A surprise inspection of shops ended with 22 reports, 5 warnings and spoiled food destroyed, and pavements cleared of encroachments.
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Announcements
Families from the El Mazini Street building begin moving their belongings
The furniture of the families from the tilting building on El Mazini Street was moved to temporary flats after the load was lightened and the building shored up.
Announcements
A building tilts on El Mazini Street: evacuation, shoring and a removal order
Building No. 27 B on El Mazini Street began to tilt; it was evacuated with its neighbours and a removal order was issued.
Community & culture
An Alexandria University medical convoy at Bashayer El Kheir
The convoy examined 280 people and gave out medicines free, and 55 people sat literacy exams.
Services
12 reports and spoiled food destroyed in a campaign in Karmouz
The campaign inspected shops on El Wahhabi and Ibrahim Pasha Naguib streets and destroyed 152 kg of spoiled minced meat.
Projects
Four of the district’s streets resurfaced in road works across six districts
The work covered Hafez Hassanein Street, the entrance of El Nil Street, Ibn Tulun Street and Umm El Sultan Street.
Services
The head of the district follows the technology centre’s work and the one-day market
The head of the district followed building-settlement requests at the technology centre and visited the one-day market at Bashayer El Kheir 3 and 5 in El Qabbari.
Services
An illegal addition on top of a building in Karmouz dealt with
The concrete starter bars were cut and the equipment seized, part of campaigns against illegal building in several districts.
Announcements
Part of a balcony wall falls from a building in El Wardian, with no one hurt
Parts of a balcony wall fell from a three-storey building on El Isnawi Street, and the district’s teams went to the site.
Services
The Bashayer El Kheir 3 and 5 bus line to Misr Station runs again
The public transport authority put the line back into regular service with four buses, after residents complained.
Services
Three shops sealed for breaking the summer closing hours
The district checked that shops kept the summer closing hours set to save electricity, and fined offenders 4,000 pounds on the spot.
Announcements
The Governor of Alexandria holds a public meeting at the district headquarters
The governor heard complaints from residents of West, El Agami and El Gomrok districts; 22 complaints and requests were examined.
Projects
Paving beside the tram track at El Omari Mosque
The district’s share of the paving covered both sides of the tram track and the junction of the Pompey’s Pillar roundabout with Khedive Street.
Announcements
Imminent danger removed from 17 buildings
Crumbling parts of façades, balconies and roofs were taken down in Karmouz, El Qabbari and Gheit El Enab.
Services
Street lighting repaired at Bashayer El Kheir
The electricity department mended street lighting at Bashayer El Kheir and lit lamps on Khedive and Ragheb streets.
Services
A 100 Million Health day at the district headquarters
A team from the West Medical Area offered the initiative’s checks to district staff and visitors to the technology centre.
Services
170 encroachments seized in an evening campaign on the Mahmoudiya axis
The campaign covered the Mahmoudiya axis, Bashayer El Kheir, and El Max and Amoud El Sawari streets.
Services
Butchers inspected ahead of Eid al-Adha
The district and the veterinary service inspected butchers’ stalls and shops in Karmouz and Mina El Basal.
Projects
Trees pruned on Amoud El Sawari Street
The gardens department pruned the trees on Amoud El Sawari Street and the hedges in El Shamla garden.
Services
Spraying against mosquitoes and flying insects in Gheit El Enab
A morning campaign at Bashayer El Kheir 1 and 2, one of the district’s public health precautions.
Services
42 reports and 106,000 pounds in fines in a campaign in El Qabbari
The campaign checked shops and food quality on El Max and Abdel Qader Hamza streets.
Projects
A road subsidence repaired on Kobri Zul Fiqar Street in Kafr Ashri
The roads department repaired the subsidence once the utilities were found sound, and filled holes in other streets.
Announcements
Dangerous parts removed from 4 buildings
The district took down parts at risk of falling from buildings in Gheit El Enab and Karmouz after calls to its operations room.
Announcements
Two people hurt as parts of a building fall on El Qadi El Fadel Street
Two passers-by were hurt; a demolition order had been issued for the building in 2019, and the district fenced it off.
Services
121 encroachments seized on El Qaffal and Umm El Sultan streets and at the Wardian roundabout
The seized items were handed to the utilities police.
Services
A campaign to vaccinate street dogs against rabies
Eleven dogs were vaccinated and three sterilised after residents complained.
Services
An unlicensed wall on empty land on El Max Street removed
The district stopped the unlicensed building and removed it as it began.
Projects
A road base laid on El Aman Street after a sewerage project
The roads directorate began reinstating the street from El Sultan Shah Street to Ibn Sahlan Street.
Services
35 tonnes of earth and rubble cleared from Bashayer El Kheir 3 and 5
The environmental monitoring department cleared the area and the international road in front of it, and followed the cleaning across the district.
Services
57 reports in an inspection of shops on El Qaffal Street
Industrial safety, food safety, supply and pharmacy inspectors took part.
Services
Work to turn a flat into two shops without a licence stopped in the El Metras housing
The head of the district stopped the work in block 5 of the North Metras housing and followed the technology centre’s work.
Projects
Ragheb Street reinstated after a water main repair
After a burst 12-inch water main was repaired, the district followed the roads directorate’s work where Ragheb Street meets El Malek El Ashraf and Aswan streets.
Announcements
The district’s old-rent zones classified
Governor’s decree 312 of 2025 classifies most of West District as economic zones, El Wardian, El Qabbari and Karmouz among them.
Services
50 tonnes of earth cleared under Bridge 27
Environmental monitoring cleared earth in front of Bashayer El Kheir 3 and 5 in El Qabbari and from the slow lane of the Mahmoudiya axis.
Services
120 tonnes of rubbish cleared at Nagaa El Arab
An immediate clean-up in front of Street 7, with the governorate’s environmental monitoring, the Nahdet Misr company and the railway authority.
Announcements
Ceilings fall inside a building on El Saada Street, Karmouz
Three people were hurt, none seriously; a restoration order had been issued for the building in 2018, and the case went to the public prosecution.
Announcements
Imminent danger removed from a building on Ibn Tulun Street
The danger was removed from the façade of No. 25, and the district called on owners to carry out restoration and demolition orders.
Services
257 encroachments seized in an evening campaign on El Max, El Qaffal and Umm El Sultan streets
The head of the district led the campaign with the utilities police to clear the pavements.
Services
An evening campaign on shop and café closing hours
The closing committee shut 4 premises in Karmouz and Mina El Basal, and the district reminded owners to take out their licences.