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STRIKE * Egypt - Police arrest 25 striking truckers
Cairo,Egypt -AFP -16 Feb 2009: -- Egyptian police arrested 25 truckers on Sunday as a strike by truck owners entered its third day, a police official said... Owners of articulated lorries, which the transport ministry says account for almost a third of commercial transport in Egypt, went on strike on Friday to protest against a law that would ban the vehicles by 2011... The truck owners say the new law will put them out of a livelihood. "We will continue the strike until our demands our met," said Mohammed Abdel Moneim, a spokesman for one of the truckers' unions... The ministry says there are 40,000 articulated vehicles in use in the Arab world's most populous country and they account for a disproportionate number of accidents... Egypt's roads are among the most chaotic and dangerous in the world, with traffic laws widely flouted... Road accidents kill about 6,000 people and cause 30,000 injuries each year, according to transport ministry figures... A new highway code came into force in August with the aim of improving road safety...
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