Egypt's Minister of Trade and Industry Tarek Kabil announced that his ministry plans to offer 10m square metres of land in Sadat, 10th of Ramadan, and Borg El Arab cities, and to complete the establishment of the first three industrial parks which (...)
Golden Cleopatra is an international chess championship, founded by Eastern Company in 1997. Unfortunately, the company stopped organising and sponsoring the championship 13 years ago. In an attempt to shine the spotlight on an often overlooked (...)
Mohamed Morsi: One Year in Power
30 June marks the one-year anniversary since Mohamed Morsi assumed Egypt's presidency. The past year has been marred in controversy and hamstrung by political deadlocks, all amid wider social unrest fueled by the (...)
Foreigners flocked to Cairo airport Saturday and Sunday in anticipation of Sunday's nationwide protests against President Mohamed Morsi. According to the state-owned news agency Al-Ahram, the chairman of EgyptAir has said 60,000 passengers have left (...)
An explosion rocked Martyr's Square in Port Said Friday evening, injuring at least 14 and killing one civilian, according to the state-owned news agency Al-Ahram. The blast was located in a busy square where protesters had gathered to demonstrate (...)
An Islamist protest in support of President Mohamed Morsi took place in Nasr City on Friday, where members of newly established ‘National Coalition to Support Legitimacy' defended the Muslim Brotherhood's second-choice presidential candidate by (...)
Egyptian authorities have arrested eight persons suspected of attacking a group of Shi'a Muslims last Sunday, killing four, including the prominent Sheikh Hassan Shehata. The arrests come three days after the incident, which has garnered widespread (...)
The former prime minister under Hosni Mubarak was scheduled to be released on Tuesday after a retrial of the licence plate case against him was granted. Ahmed Nazif stood accused of having squandered EGP 92m in public funds by granting the contract (...)
The Revolutionary Socialists and the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions, announced their participation in the upcoming 30 June protest against President Mohamed Morsi, in a joint statement released on Tuesday.
According to the (...)
The Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounced Sunday evening the referral of Adel Hammouda, a television presenter for CBC and editor of El-Fagr newspaper, to the Supreme State Security Prosecution by the Prosecutor General Talaat (...)
Egypt's UN ambassador Mootaz Ahmadein Khalil held a meeting with Arab counterparts to discuss the Syrian crisis, among other things, according to a statement released on Sunday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In the meeting Ahmadein Khalil urged (...)
The Thai embassy in Cairo commented on the recent altercation between First Secretary Kakanang Amaranand and an Egyptian couple on 13 June in a hotel bar. In an interview with the Daily News Egypt, Thailand's Ambassador Chalit Manityakul spoke about (...)
The Presidency announced Thursday evening the launch of a new campaign aimed at promoting President Mohamed Morsi's first year in tenure.
The campaign, known as "Morsi First Year" and launched via a website and social media outlets such as Twitter (...)
The World Food Programme (WFP) issued a summary report on the state of poverty and food security in Egypt, prompting the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) to express concern about its findings.
The report highlighted an increase in the (...)
European Union (EU) High Representative Catherine Ashton met Wednesday with several key politicians and Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr to discuss the Syrian crisis, the Ethiopian dam, and European aid to Egypt.
According to an EU press release, (...)
The Ethiopian foreign ministry released a statement on Thursday detailing the meetings held with Egypt regarding the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
The meeting, which was held on Wednesday, highlighted the findings of (...)
Five Syrians accused of "terrorising" the EgyptAir flight which made an emergency landing in Glasgow last week are seeking asylum in Scotland, the state-owned news agency Al-Ahram reported on Thursday. The comment was made by EgyptAir's head of (...)
Islamist political parties will hold a march in Cairo this Friday, under the slogan "No to Violence", nine days before planned opposition protests.
The Friday demonstration was called for by various groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom (...)
Talks between Egypt and Ethiopia's foreign ministers in Addis Ababa began on Monday, aimed at discussing the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr's meeting with his Ethiopian counterpart is (...)
A complaint against a Thai diplomat has been filed with the Qasr Al-Nil Police Station. The diplomat allegedly assaulted an Egyptian woman at the Kempinski Hotel in Downtown Cairo on Thursday.
According to Rana Ashraf, the woman who filed the (...)
The Supreme State Security Prosecution has sentenced an Egyptian to 15 days imprisonment pending investigations into allegations of espionage. The state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram reported the private sector employee is accused of working as a spy for (...)
The European Union's Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean region, Bernardino León, met with members of political parties and government officials on Wednesday as part of his visit to Egypt. In his meetings León spoke about the (...)
The National Council for Women has finished drafting a bill aimed at addressing all forms of violence against women.
According to Aswat Masriya, the final draft was submitted to President Mohamed Morsi, Prime Minister Hesham Qandil and Minister of (...)
The American University of Cairo closed their New Cairo campus on Thursday, and it will remain closed throughout the weekend, according to the university. The decision came in light of power and water shortages the campus has been suffering since (...)
Nile University students and supporters protested at the site of three buildings contested by the Zewail Science City on Thursday. The protest was organised after the latter announced it would be holding a lecture in one of the buildings.
According (...)