CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri met with Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Gouda Abdel Khalek and Minister of Petroleum Mohamed Ghorab to discuss the gas canisters crisis.
The new cabinet is considering using the armed forces (...)
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CAIRO: Egypt's designated Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri is facing a real problem in forming a salvation government since he did not yet choose a Minister of Interior, according to a well-informed (...)
CAIRO: The final lineaments of forming the upcoming government will be announced today December 2 at 5:00 P.M, according to designated Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri.
He met with Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Fayza Abu (...)
CAIRO: The salvation government's priority is reclaiming security and operation of the production movement, said Egyptian Prime Minister designate Kamal el-Ganzouri on Thursady.
The Egyptian pound's value is a fifth of its value 15 years ago, (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf met Monday evening with five youth representatives from Tahrir Square prior to officially announcing that he was tendering the government's resignation to the ruling military council, a cabinet source (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and Deputy Prime Minister for Political Development and Democratization Ali el-Selmy will continue negotiations on Saturday with Egyptian political powers regarding the constitutional principles document (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian-Ethiopian relations share cultural and religious heritage, said Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf Monday, during a meeting with the Patriarch of Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abune Paulos, and his accompanying delegation.
The (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf authorized Minister of Petroleum Abdullah Ghorab to follow up on the explosion of the Egypt-Israel-Jordan gas pipeline, and to estimate the number of casualties.
In addition, Sharaf asked Minister of (...)
CAIRO: Egyptians living abroad will be allowed to vote in upcoming parliamentary elections with their national ID cards rather than their passports.
The decision came from the committee dealing with the right of expats to vote in upcoming (...)
CAIRO: After the controversy that aroused his supra-constitutional principles document, Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Ali el-Selmy announced he will conduct amendments to the articles no. 9 and 10 of the document.
No. 9 provides only Egypt's (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Cabinet will ratify the places of worship law Tuesday, which is amended to be as law of Organizing Church Building.
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf met with a church delegation to discuss the law. The decree will be referred to (...)
CAIRO – Egyptian Minister of Local Development Mohamed Atia today said that the Egyptian Cabinet had not yet decided to nullify Article Five of the parliamentary elections law.
This announcement is in reaction to conflicting information about a (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Cabinet agreed to meet protesting teachers' demands Sunday, said Egyptian Minister of Education Ahmed Gamel el-Din Moussa.
Moussa said around 90 percent of the demands would be met.
The Ministry of Education officially (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, in coordination with the Council of Ministries, today decided to refer a fact-finding report on the foreign funding of NGOs operating in Egypt to various investigatory bodies.
There are 30 unregistered (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Cabinet today announced that all cases concerning “thuggish action” will be transferred to the State Security Court, not military courts, Egyptian Minister of Information Osama Heikal reported.
“The state of emergency is a (...)
CAIRO: Israel has no relationship to peace, said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a joint press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Essam Sharaf.
Erdogan added that his country's policies are not determined by its (...)
CAIRO: Turkish Television interviewed Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf Monday, a few hours ahead of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's arrival in Cairo.
The interview discussed bilateral relations between Egypt and Turkey and both (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian government is waiting to begin a joint investigation with Israel into the killing of five Egyptian soldiers by the Israeli military, said the Egyptian cabinet.
The cabinet added that there is limited time to start the (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Supreme Council of Energy chaired by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf today discussed a price equation designed to earn the best return on Egypt's valuable energy resources.
Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Energy Hassan Younis (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf today ignored the demands of demonstrating residents in the Cairo neighborhood, 10th of Ramadan City, during his visit.
The protestors tried to stop Sharaf outside the headquarters of the Investors (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Ministerial Cabinet is mulling a law allowing “honorable” businessmen to serve in ministerial posts, said Cabinet Spokesman Mohammad Hegazi.
The law, which is expected to pass, prevents a conflict of interest, and includes (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's new government is expected to swear their oaths of office today. Initially, the new government was expected to swear in yesterday.
Sources added that there will be a different Minister of Antiquities. Abdel Fatah el-Banna, (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister, Essam Sharaf, chose Motaz Mohammad Khorshid to be Minister of High Education and Scientific research in place of Amr Salama, who resigned yesterday noon.
It is worth mentioning Khorshid is vice president of Cairo (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has accepted the resignation of Deputy PM Yehia al-Gamal. A coalition of youth representatives has consequently called for George Ishak to be appointed his replacement.
Ishak is a member of the National (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf is using his Facebook page to search for ministerial candidates. He posted a question on his page asking for nominations for new ministers.
More than 4,000 comments were posted in three hours regarding (...)