CAIRO - Braving bad weather, rain-flooded streets and fears of insecurity, millions of Egyptians on Monday headed to 3,809 polling stations in nine governorates to cast their ballots on the first day of Phase One of the first post-Mubarak (...)
CAIRO – Rights groups have accused Egypt's Government, led by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, of restricting their role, hindering their activities and excluding them from most of the forums for dialogue created by the institutions running the (...)
CAIRO - When Egyptians voted in a referendum for constitutional changes on March 19, they tacitly allowed the military rulers to move to parliamentary elections.
Many did not agree and said “no” to the changes, but they then conformed with the (...)
CAIRO - Most Egyptians want a new constitution before the parliamentary and presidential elections due later this year, a recent poll by four rights organisations has revealed.
A total of 83.6 per cent of those polled said that they want a new (...)
CAIRO - The purpose of the Zewail City of Science and Technology project, announced last week by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail, is to set up an advanced scientific base as a nucleus for centres of pre-eminence for the (...)
CAIRO - An Egyptian activist has urged subscribers on the social networking website Facebook to stage a symbolic protest on June 6 to mark the first anniversary of the death of a blogger, who was allegedly tortured to death by police in the coastal (...)
CAIRO - The January 25 revolution is having a momentous impact on the Coptic Church. “The Copts will ignore Church policies,” surmised Mamoun Fendi, president of Fendi Associates, a Washington DC-based research group and think-tank, during the (...)
CAIRO - Shantytowns have mushroomed in Egypt, to the extent that they are now an integral part of the country, warn experts.
Much of the blame for this ought to be laid at the door of the governments that managed the country in recent decades, since (...)
CAIRO - Seizing State-owned lands were rife in the Mubarak regime, say opponents of the ousted regime. Several former ministers, businessmen and other allies of the regime acquired vast areas of land in wonderful locations for a pittance.
Dozens of (...)
CAIRO - A candidate for president of Egypt was quizzed Saturday because of her outspoken criticism of the nation's military rulers and said she was facing allegations of slandering from a top official and the military.
Bothaina Kamel, 48, a (...)
CAIRO - Unemployment was one of the main reasons for the popular revolt that overthrew Mubarak's regime. Now that we have entered a new era, the Government has no other choice but to work as hard as it can to revive the economy and create new (...)
CAIRO - Representatives of 13 Palestinian factions signed an Egyptian-brokered reconciliation deal in Cairo Tuesday, paving the way for elections within a year. Egypt Wednesday hosts a big ceremony to mark the breakthrough.
Officials from (...)
CAIRO - Several ferry boat mishaps in the past few years have claimed the lives of dozens of Egyptians, yet people say that nothing has been done about the problem.
A few days ago, 22 people drowned and four others had a narrow escape, when a bus (...)
CAIRO - The January 25 revolution has radically changing the face of Egypt at various levels. Still, several sectors are in the doldrums. There are big problems with the economy and the tourism sector, but it seems that these are only short-term (...)
QENA - A delegation of local people in Upper Egypt said they would go to Qena, a tense province in southern Egypt, in a bid to end a standoff of almost two weeks there against the appointment of a Coptic governor.
Before heading to the restive (...)
CAIRO - A presidential decree of 2008 that carved 6th October and Helwan governorates out of Giza and Cairo governorates caused much controversy; many people wondered at the time What the point of this was?
Meanwhile, a recent ministerial decree to (...)
QENA - Thousands of Egyptians Tuesday protested for the sixth day in a row against the appointment of a Christian police general as governor of the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena, as he was last night expected to quit.
Minister of Interior (...)
CAIRO - Encroachments on arable land in the Nile Valley and the Delta since the eruption of the January 25 revolution have exceeded 100,000, according to a recent report.
The Central Administration for Protecting Arable Lands said that 108,316 (...)
CAIRO (Updated) - After being temporarily remanded for 15 day over illicit gains, Safwat el-Sherif, the former secretary-general of the formerly ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), was quizzed yesterday over his involvement in what was dubbed in (...)
CAIRO - The April 6 Youth Movement Wednesday organised protests at the headquarters of governorates nationwide calling for the ouster of governors whom the activists viewe as remnants of the Mubarak regime.
The protests were part of the celebrations (...)
CAIRO - Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil el-Arabi has denied he called for scrapping a peace treaty with Israel and reiterated Cairo is committed to the 1979 pact.
“There are matters that need to be reviewed. For example, it was agreed in the (1978) (...)
CAIRO - Former head of the UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei Saturday slammed the ‘deceleration' in meeting the demands of the January 25 Revolution that toppled the Mubarak regime.
In remarks on the return of people to Al Tahrir Square on (...)
CAIRO - Egyptian bloggers and activists have called for a new million-man march on Friday in Cairo's Al Tahrir Square, the epicentre of 18-day protests that overthrow long-serving President Hosni Mubarak, against what they called 'unfulfilled (...)
CAIRO (Update1) - Egypt's Stock Exchange will re-open Wednesday, the official Middle East News Agency Monday quoted Cabinet spokesman Magdy Rady as saying.
The Exchange has been closed for more than seven weeks because of the political turmoil that (...)
CAIRO - The eldest daughter of Egypt's late President Anwar Sadat has accused ex-President Hosni Mubarak of involvement in her father's assassination almost 30 years ago.
Roqaya el-Sadat's lawyer, Samri Sabri lodged a report with Egypt's Chief (...)