The United States ambassador to Egypt R. Stephen Beecroft said on Sunday that his country's support of Egypt in its fight against terrorism is “firm, ongoing and eager.”
Ambassador Beecroft said during the annual meeting of the American Chamber of (...)
An Egyptian court has ordered the American University in Cairo to collect all tuition fees from local students in Egyptian pounds instead of in dollars, after a group of parents brought a lawsuit challenging a recent increase in fees.
The court (...)
An Egyptian woman who was severely wounded in the Cairo church bombing on 11 December died of her injuries on Saturday, Coptic Orthodox Church official Bassem Salah told Ahram Online.
Isis Fares, 63, suffered a brain injury after she was struck in (...)
Saudi Arabia placed on Tuesday a temporary ban on the import of all types of Egyptian peppers after “pepper shipments continued to be contaminated with pesticide residue,” said a statement by the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and (...)
Setting the prices of medicine in Egypt should be more flexible to absorb currency fluctuation shocks, the director of French medicine company Sanofi Alexis Moyrand said in a press conference on Tuesday.
Moyrand, in Ahram Hebdo's economic conference (...)
Students at the American University in Cairo (AUC) staged a strike on Monday for the eight day running to protest a rise in tuition fees after the government floated the Egyptian pound—a crisis extending to students in dozens of other international (...)
Egypt will announce the petroleum companies to float in the bourse in November, with a global road show planned to lure investors, the country's oil minister said in a Tuesday press conference.
Eight companies are currently being considered, (...)
The Suez Canal Economic Zone Authority will start stipulating the use of foreign currency in its utility contracts with investors, the head of the authority Ahmed Darwish announced on Tuesday.
Darwish said during a press conference at the AmCham in (...)
Egyptian exports are expected to be boosted by 10 percent if and when the devaluation of the local currency happens, Trade and Industry Minister Tarek Kabil said on Tuesday.
During the second and the last day of the Euromoney Egypt conference, Kabil (...)
The long-planned smart card system at Egyptian gas stations will “most likely be activated by the end of this year,” an official from E-Finance Company, which is tasked by the government to execute the project, said on Tuesday.
E-Finance's strategy (...)
Egypt is currently negotiating a $4 billion loan from China to finance the country's renewable energy strategy, an official from the international cooperation ministry said on Tuesday.
“China has shown readiness to provide the fund,” Shehab Marzban, (...)
Egypt's finance minister Amr El-Garhy said on Monday that the financial deal recently signed with the International Monetary Fund "won't solve] everything, but it is an important step on the way" to economic recovery.
During Monday's Cairo-based (...)
Egypt's government aims to provide women and youth with lines of credit for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr said on Monday.
Although women make up around 50 percent of the country's population of (...)
ُEgypt's Commercial International Bank (CIB) has introduced new limits on Egyptians' use of debit and credit cards abroad, effective Monday, according to the private lender's official website.
This is the second time the country's largest private (...)
Egypt's Socialist Popular Alliance Party (SPAP) has decided to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections after a list of its demands, put forth following the killing of member Shaimaa El-Sabagh, was not met.
Demands include sacking the interior (...)
A hunger strike campaign opposing Egypt's protest law is still going strong despite a court's decision Monday to release activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah and two others after they were imprisoned on charges of its violation.
Abdel-Fattah, Mohamed (...)
A hunger strike campaign in solidarity with Egyptian political detainees has gained momentum, with more joining the strike outside and inside prison.
The campaign, launched last week, condemns the prolonged detainment of detainees without setting a (...)
Egypt's controversial protest law is poised to undergo an "amendment phase," the National Council for Human Rights' Nasser Amin said on Monday, adding that the council has been asked to review the amended law before it is issued.
The protest (...)
Families and friends of detained and imprisoned activists said on Sunday that they will gradually begin a hunger strike in solidarity with detainees.
In a press conference in downtown Cairo, political activist Zizo Abdo said the gradual hunger (...)
Egyptian social media users took to Twitter on Monday using the Arabic hashtag "25 January means to me" to express their wildly opposing views on the uprising that took place over three years ago.
The hashtag, currently trending in Egypt with over (...)
Ever since the swearing in of Egypt's current government, nationwide campaigns have taken place to rid Egypt's streets of unauthorised street vendors, prompting Cairo's downtown street vendors to realise that they are staying on borrowed (...)
Egyptian troops in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula barred an aid convoy of activists and medical volunteers from reaching the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, as a deadly conflict with Israeli forces intensified.
The convoy, which left (...)
The privately owned TV stations CBC and ONTV aired the first half of a pre-recorded interview with presidential hopeful Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Monday evening.
The former defence minister, who is expected to win the election held on 26-27 May, (...)
Presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi presented his electoral programme in a press conference on Wednesday in which he said he would run under the slogan of "social justice, democracy and national independence" in order to "achieve Egypt's future (...)
A number of Egyptian political movements and parties have started a nationwide campaign calling for the country's controversial protest law to be revoked and for all those detained under it to be released.
The protest law, issued last November, has (...)