Nikos Katsikas, the correspondent of APE-MPE in Cairo, is dead

The correspondent of the Athenian News Agency in Cairo, Nikolaos Katsikas, was found dead yesterday, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

N. Katsikas worked as a correspondent for APE and collaborated with ERT in Cairo for a number of years with professionalism and a sense of duty.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses its sincere condolences to his family.

Our competent Consular Authorities are in constant contact with the competent Egyptian authorities, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Nikos Katsikas was born on May 7, 1966 and was originally from Piraeus. He has been working as a correspondent for APE-MPE in Cairo since September 2016, and in the historical newspaper “Fos” in Cairo since the 2000s (he undertook and published 550 sheets out of the approximately 700 that the total edition counts).

Editor-in-Chief of the weekly edition “New Light” in Cairo (continuation of the historical Light), the monthly edition “Alexandrinos Postman” and the information website “Pyramis”.

He worked with stubbornness and passion in order to maintain the role of the Egyptian media as “a bridge of Hellenism that wanders in our beloved Nile Country with the even more beloved Motherland”, as he characteristically wrote in the photo album “150 years of Greek press in Nile Country “, which was published in 2016 and was edited by an experienced journalist.

He was vice-president of the Hellenic Center in Cairo. He was a graduate of Byzantine Music, while he was ordained in 2006 Archon Protopsaltis by the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Mr. Theodore, whom he has followed on most pastoral visits to Africa. He was a member of the Association of Editors of Daily Newspapers of Athens (ESIEA).

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