CAIRO: The U.S. embassy in Cairo issued a travel advisory Thursday urging its citizens to avoid traveling outside Egypt’s major cities of Cairo and Alexandria, and touristic destinations.
“The U.S. Embassy continues to closely monitor the security situation in Egypt. The embassy urges U.S. citizens to be alert, exercise good judgment, and follow good security practices everywhere in the country,” the U.S. embassy in Cairo said in a travel alert published Thursday.
The alert also restricted the U.S. Embassy personnel and their families from traveling in the Sinai Peninsula outside the resort city of Sharm el Sheikh or anywhere in Egypt’s Western desert region.
On August 13; a day before the second anniversary of the dispersal pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-insat Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares, the embassy has advised U.S. citizens “to increase their level of awareness and avoid areas where protests may occur, particularly during this sit-in anniversary period.”