Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli toured the New Administrative Capital on Saturday to follow up on plans to relocate ministry headquarters and their employees to the new capital by 2021. He inspected construction work on the cabinet headquarters, the (...)
Egyptian Transport Minister Kamel El-Wazir said on Thursday that an ongoing development of the Cairo Ring Road will expand it from eight lanes to 14, or from 37.2 metres to 60 metres in width.
El-Wazir's remarks came during a cabinet meeting to (...)
Head of Egypt's Civil Aviation Authority Ashraf Noweir decided on Wednesday to allow some travellers arriving at the country's airports to present a negative PCR test result if it was taken within 96 hours of the traveller's arrival, rather than the (...)
“I don't wear a face mask as regularly as I did. Now I keep it in the car or in my pocket, in case I need it to enter places that insist I wear one though there aren't many of those these days,” Ahmed Mohsen, 37, told Al-Ahram Weekly.
His remarks (...)
The cabinet last week approved draft amendments to Law 49/1972 regulating universities, one of which imposes a fee on university students who fail and have to repeat a year. Should parliament approve the changes the new regulations will apply to the (...)
With the coronavirus accelerating worldwide, passing 20 million infections this week, according to a John Hopkins University case tracker, several countries have once again started imposing lockdown measures over worries of a second wave of (...)
On Sunday and Monday, for the first time since April, Egypt's daily toll of coronavirus cases dropped below 200.
In a cabinet meeting on 29 June, Health Minister Hala Zayed highlighted a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) which stated (...)
“Egypt may have passed its peak infection rate and could be entering the flattening phase of daily cases ahead of a gradual drop during July, August, and possibly through September,” Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Khaled (...)
Egypt's health ministry said in a statement on Saturday that it recorded 923 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of confirmed infections nationwide to 81,158 cases since the detection of the first case on 14 February.
Health ministry (...)
Allegations from tens of young women accusing the same man of harassment, sexual assault and rape have gone viral over the past week. Ahmed Bassam Zaki, the alleged serial rapist, has now been detained.
On Monday the prosecutor-general said the (...)
On 27 June, more than three months after they were imposed, Egypt began lifting many of the restrictions put in place to curb the spread of coronavirus. Egypt has lost LE125 billion in revenue during the last three months as a result of the closure (...)
Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, and scientists and drug-makers around the world are frantically testing existing antiviral drugs to curb the spread of the respiratory virus until a vaccine is found.
Two of the most talked-about drugs are the (...)
The United States' National Security Council (NSC) said on Wednesday that it is time to reach a deal over Ethiopia's disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) before filling it with Nile River water.
In a tweet on its official account, the NSC (...)
Sudan has called for controversial issues in the Ethiopian dam negotiations to be referred to the prime ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, indicating that an impasse has been reached in this latest round of talks.
Sudanese Irrigation Minister (...)
Egypt broke its daily record for coronavirus infections and fatalities twice this week. While it took the respiratory virus 50 days to reach 1,000 infections on 4 April, it took 24 hours to detect 1,691 cases on Monday, bringing the total number of (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation said on Saturday that the fourth day of the tripartite negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan ended with an agreement to meet again virtually on (...)
Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, the manufacturer of the first Egyptian robot dedicated to service at isolation hospitals, said the robot aims to reduce contact between medical staff and coronavirus patients.
He told state-owned Al-Oula satellite channel over (...)
Since July 2014, the date President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi took office, the state has been in a hurry to complete an array of mega projects that include roads, bridges, tunnels, new cities and even a new canal.
In the housing sector alone Egypt has (...)
Egyptian hotels that have met health and safety rules required for reopening with a reduced occupancy rate to contain the spread of the coronavirus have risen to 99 hotels nationwide, after 14 new facilities were granted licenses, Egypt's tourism (...)
Wearing face masks is now mandatory for workers, visitors to markets, shops, banks, government and private institutions, and for commuters taking public transport. Failure to comply can result in a fine of up to LE4,000.
And with curfew hours (...)
In an attempt to limit the spread of Covid-19, stricter social distancing measures will be imposed throughout the five-day Eid Al-Fitr holiday which starts on Sunday.
“Eid Al-Fitr is usually marked by gatherings that this year may lead to the spread (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah EL-Sisi discussed on Saturday with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and Minister of Transport Kamel El-Wazir the executive position of the projects of the ministry, the development and modernisation of the railway (...)
Egypt reported 20 new coronavirus deaths on Saturday, bringing the total number of fatalities up to 612 nationwide, the health ministry announced in a statement.
The ministry also reported 491 new coronavirus infections on the same day, bringing the (...)
The prolonged night-time curfew accompanied by working from home and e-learning policies introduced to halt the spread of the coronavirus have negatively impacted many businesses in Egypt, with ride-hailing being no exception.
“Since late March, we (...)
“It began less than a month ago when for a few minutes I came in contact with a work colleague who had coronavirus but at the time was displaying no symptoms,” a 40-year-old married coronavirus patient told Al-Ahram Weekly in a telephone (...)
