The executive head of a national fund for social service projects announced on Wednesday a list of planned projects in healthcare and urban planning.
Speaking to the money and finance conference attendees, Mahmoud Abdel-Latif said Tahya Masr (Long (...)
Facebook has verified the accounts of several Egyptian activists, many with critical views of the government, posing questions about their legal accountability for future posts.
Those with recently verified accounts include journalists, researchers, (...)
Egypt's NGOs say they are facing uncertainty after the government announced they will have to officially register under a law from the era of toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak – part of what they say are continual efforts to eliminate certain civil (...)
A new Egyptian movement that first kicked off on social media has called for protests on Tuesday against the increasingly high cost of life in the country and deteriorating public services, according to the movement's Facebook page.
The movement, (...)
Egypt woke up in darkness on Thursday after a major blackout hit the capital and other cities nationwide at 6am and then continued for hours, bringing some key services to a halt.
By the evening, and as the power gradually came back, the head of the (...)
The renowned human rights lawyer and activist - and father of activists Alaa and Sanaa Abdel-Fattah - died at 63 on Wednesday due to heart problems; mourners vow to continue his fight
Hundreds of activists, journalists, rights advocates and loved (...)
Three years after the downfall of Egypt's long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak, the ousted president, his interior minister and his aides were given court time not only to defend themselves but to claim the 2011 uprising was either a foreign plot or (...)
An Egyptian aid convoy bound for Gaza has reached the Rafah border crossing, with plans to deliver medicine to the besieged Palestinian enclave, members of the convoy told Ahram Online.
Member of the convoy and former presidential candidate Khaled (...)
An Egyptian popular aid convoy bound for Gaza has reached Al-Arish and will continue to the Rafah border crossing on Friday with plans to deliver medicine to the besieged Palestinian enclave, members of the convoy told Ahram Online.
Activists are (...)
A year after the start of the grassroots campaign that went viral nationwide, Tamarod finds itself deeply divided, with many of its members now backing the state.
The group says it's about to announce a political party, after it threw its weight (...)
Students and some faculty members in public Egyptian universities have expressed their disappointment and frustration with a presidential decree mandating that university heads and deans are to be directly appointed by the president.
The decision by (...)
The Presidential Elections Commission (PEC), Egyptian authorities and wide sections of the media have launched a final campaign to boost turnout in the country's presidential election.
The vote is a straight choice between ex-army chief Abdel-Fattah (...)
Figures linked to the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak have returned to prominence in Upper Egypt, according to activists in Assiut.
They have been campaigning for retired army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in next week's presidential (...)
In the southern town where Egypt's former president Gamal Abdel-Nasser lived as a child, locals today are unsure about whether current politicians have captured the popular leader's legacy. They are adamant, however, about their need for lower (...)
Several thousand marched on Saturday to the presidential palace chanting against the controversial protest law and demanding the release of detainees.
Non-Islamist opposition groups and movements had called for the protest which started at the Saray (...)
A leading Egyptian liberal party has announced its official support to presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi in the country's much anticipated vote slated to take place 26-27 May.
The Constitution Party, launched in 2012 by Nobel Laureate and former (...)
After attacks targeting security personnel manned outside Cairo University, different political forces reacted, condemning the blasts that killed one person and injured five others.
Earlier in the day, three explosions went off in front of the (...)
Hours after Egypt's former military chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced his candidacy for the country's upcoming presidential elections, political forces' reaction varied from support, to objection and indifference.
As field marshal, El-Sisi had (...)
The mob sexual harassment of a female student at Cairo University has caused outrage across Egyptian society.
The criticism was heightened when Gaber Nassar, the university dean, implied the woman had provoked the attack by wearing "inappropriate (...)
"There's no sense of law, no hope in the constitution and no value in the courts. We will stay here until they finish their damned roadmap," wrote Alaa Abdel-Fattahfrom a prison cell, almost a hundred days after he was arrested on charges of illegal (...)
Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour issued a decree on Thursday regulating the status of health care providers working in state hospitals and institutions.
A spokesman for the health ministry said that the decree offers the system of higher (...)
Egypt's health ministry acknowledges death of 24 people from the H1N1 virus; Doctors' Syndicate calls for more studies and a transparent count but ministry says union harbours ulterior motives
As possible cases of swine flu spread in different parts (...)
Two members of the constitution drafting committee say that the final draft of the text voted on by the panel was altered to change the phrase 'civilian rule' to the less restrictive 'civilian government'
A member of the committee responsible for (...)
Egypt's recently finalised draft charter introduced a large number of new articles to, as well as omitted others from, the controversial 2012 constitution predominantly drafted by the Islamist groups in power during the term of ousted Muslim (...)
Egyptian activists expressed dismay at a recent expert survey that ranked Egypt as the worst Arab country to be a woman, describing the label as "misrepresentative" and "inaccurate."
In a report released on Tuesday, a poll of gender experts surveyed (...)