Egypt says 45 of 1,094 drivers tested positive for drugs in 24 hours
Egypt's Interior Ministry said its traffic campaigns tested 1,094 drivers in 24 hours and 45 were positive for drug use, without saying which substances they had taken. A parallel operation on work zones along the Regional Ring Road tested 152 drivers and reported five positives.
Egypt’s Interior Ministry said its General Traffic Directorate tested 1,094
drivers in 24 hours and 45 tested positive for drug use.[1][2][3][4][5]A parallel
campaign on work zones along the Regional Ring Road tested 152 drivers and found
five positive for drug use.[1][2][3][4]Those checks took place at work zones on the
Regional Ring Road, the ring road that runs around the edge of Greater Cairo.[1][3]
The nationwide traffic campaigns recorded 104,292 violations in the same 24
hours, including driving without a licence, speeding and using a mobile phone at
the wheel.[1][2][3]The Regional Ring Road campaign recorded 452 violations, and
officers detained 10 people wanted under 13 court rulings and held two vehicles
for traffic offences.[1][2][3][4]The ministry said the required legal measures had
been taken in the recorded cases.[1][2][3]
Egypt’s Interior Ministry said its traffic campaigns tested 1,061 drivers in 24 hours and 38 tested positive for drug use.[6]In the same 24 hours the ministry recorded 106,705 traffic violations nationwide, including driving without a licence, speeding, parking at random, using a mobile phone at the wheel and breaching licence conditions.[6]A parallel campaign in work zones along the Regional Ring Road recorded 565 violations, tested 171 drivers and found 10 positive for drug use.[6]The same campaign detained five people wanted under eight court rulings and held three vehicles for traffic offences.[6]This account adds that legal measures were taken against all the recorded violations and seizures, rather than only the traffic violations of the Ring Road campaign.[6]
The ministry said the checks aimed to improve road safety and cut accidents caused by unsafe driving.[5]The ministry said legal measures were taken against the drivers whose tests came back positive.[5]
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مصراوي.كومmasrawy.comARضبط 104 آلاف مخالفة مرورية و45 سائقا متعاطيا للمخدرات خلال 24 ساعة
The article names no substance in the 45 positive tests, so it is not established that any of them involved cannabis.
The article gives no separate date for the tests; 9 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
No driver names, governorate breakdown, charges or prosecution decisions were reported.
The article combines several unrelated roundups in one statement, including currency-trading cases worth about 4 million Egyptian pounds and 16 tonnes of flour seized in bakery checks; those are separate matters and are left out.
No second outlet reporting this particular day's round could be opened; the Egyptian Interior Ministry's own statement was not found.
The Al-Masry Al-Youm account likewise names no substance in the 45 or five positive tests, so it does not show that any of them involved cannabis.
The report body dates the intake of 10 wanted people and two vehicles to the Regional Ring Road campaign, while this article lists those figures in a separate sentence after the 152-driver check; the existing wording is left unchanged.
The Al-Osboa account names no substance in the 45 or five positive tests, so it does not show that any of them involved cannabis.
The Dostor account names no substance in the 45 or five positive tests, so it does not show that any of them involved cannabis.
This page gives nationwide totals of 106,705 violations, 1,061 drivers tested and 38 positive samples, against 104,292 violations, 1,094 drivers and 45 positives in the outlets already cited; the later total could not be confirmed from the ministry's own statement.
It reports 10 positive tests among 171 Regional Ring Road drivers, where the earlier accounts report five positives, so the earlier figure of five is left unchanged and the discrepancy is unresolved.
It says the Regional Ring Road campaign recorded 565 violations and that officers detained five people wanted under eight court rulings and held three vehicles, while the earlier accounts give 452 violations, 10 wanted people under 13 rulings and two vehicles.
The page names no substance in any of the positive tests, so it does not show that any of them involved cannabis.
The article gives no separate date for the checks; 9 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
Its only picture is a stock traffic-campaign image whose file address dates from July 2025, captioned only with the section and time, so it is not listed as media of this event.
The Ahram Gate account names no substance in the 45 positive tests, so it does not establish that any of them involved cannabis.
The page gives no separate date for the checks; 9 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
Security agencies in El-Khusus, Qalyubia, detained 11 people in a campaign launched after social-media posts about drug dealing. Officers said the suspects were carrying hashish together with heroin, ice and powdered drugs.
Cairo detectives arrested two unemployed men in El-Marg with 37 slabs of hashish, a shotgun and cartridges after a tip that they were distributing the drug. The two admitted holding the hashish to sell it.
Luxor police arrested four men accused of stealing motorcycles and hiding them in Al-Zanaqta, recovering five bikes. Officers also seized hashish of unstated weight and half a kilogram of shabu, and prosecutors ordered the suspects held for four days.
Egypt's Interior Ministry said its traffic campaigns tested 1,045 drivers in 24 hours and 44 were positive for narcotics use, with no substance named. A parallel campaign on work zones along the Regional Ring Road tested 156 drivers, reported seven positives and detained seven people wanted under nine court rulings.