The appeals judge in a southern Giza court accepted on Sunday the appeal of 18 residents of Nazlet Al-Semman district in Giza and ordered their release pending investigations into charges of resisting authorities, illegal assembly and injuring a (...)
A recent report published by Fitch Solutions, a global firm providing research and macro intelligence, questioned the viability of the electric railway being constructed to connect Greater Cairo with the New Administrative Capital (NAC). Fitch was (...)
Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli last week witnessed the signing of an executive agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China (EximBank) to provide a $1.2 billion soft loan for the building of an electric rail link between Greater Cairo and the New (...)
Last week saw the launch of “Decent Life”, an initiative by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi that hopes to provide better living conditions for the needy in 2019.
“As I looked at last year to search for the real hero of our nation, I found that the (...)
A police officer was killed and two others were wounded late on Saturday while trying to dismantle an improvised explosive device (IED) near a Coptic church in Nasr City in Cairo, reports Ahmed Morsy.
The dramatic incident happened a day before the (...)
Last week saw the launch of “Decent Life”, an initiative by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi that hopes to provide better living conditions for the needy in 2019.
“As I looked at last year to search for the real hero of our nation, I found that the (...)
“If they asked me to choose between feeding or treating people, I would treat them, of course. When we stand together, hand in hand, we can solve any problem,” President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi said during his closing speech at the sixth National Youth (...)
Mokhtar Youssef, the head of Alexandria University's Council for Postgraduate Studies and Research, announced last week that all master and PhD thesis proposals must conform to Egypt's Vision 2030.
Established in 1938, Alexandria University is the (...)
Mokhtar Youssef, the head of Alexandria University's Council for Postgraduate Studies and Research, announced last week that all master and PhD thesis proposals must conform to Egypt's Vision 2030.
Established in 1938, Alexandria University is the (...)
Last week's cabinet decision to expropriate land on Warraq has provoked anger among the island's residents. The decision to expropriate 100 metres of land along both sides of the Rod Al-Farrag Axis as it crosses the island, and to take 30 metres of (...)
The two-day Egyptian-French Health Forum opened Monday in Cairo, bringing together French and Egyptian officials and French companies operating in the health sector.
France's Ambassador to Egypt Stephane Romatet told the conference French companies (...)
“Educational directorates have been instructed to close all unlicensed private tutoring centres,” announced Ahmed Saber, media spokesperson for the Ministry of Education.
The campaign is being carried out by the Education Ministry in coordination (...)
In the light of a reported possible merger between ride-hailing companies Uber and Careem, the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) has imposed measures on both companies to regulate competition between them and safeguard the competitive structure (...)
A European Parliament (EP) delegation arrived in Egypt last week. The two-day visit came as part of the ongoing dialogue between the EP and the House of Represntatives, and follows Egyptian Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal's visit to Brussels last (...)
“One of my happiest moments, one that really makes my day, is when I can get out of a parking spot without the parking attendant [the sayes, plural soyas] noticing me. Though it is only LE5 or LE10 which I save, it makes me as happy as if I had made (...)
With the advent of winter in which there is concern avian flu may resurface, the Ministry of Agriculture will put into effect Law 70/2009 which prohibits the transport and sale of live poultry.
“The law addresses all the details regarding the live (...)
Following the deaths of a British couple staying at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada in August, Steigenberger Hotels AG, the German hotel chain, has “increased measures and quality checks that are aimed to prevent (...)
In February President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi announced an initiative to eradicate Hepatitis C from Egypt by 2020. Egypt has the highest prevalence of Hepatitis C in the world and the initiative involves a massive campaign that involves the free (...)
Chronically ill patients are finding it hard to access essential medication. Pharmacists and patients interviewed by Al-Ahram Weekly say diabetics are facing problems buying insulin, that penicillin is increasingly hard to find and medications for (...)
The number of tourists visiting Egypt during the first half of 2018 reached 5.1 million, a 40 per cent increase compared to the same period of last year. April witnessed the highest number of monthly visitors, with 990,000 tourists arriving.
The (...)
Prosecutor-General Nabil Sadek this week referred 28 defendants charged with spreading rumours on social media platforms to the Supreme State Security Criminal Court. Prosecutors claim the defendants attempted to spread chaos by causing confusion (...)
Ten train carriages travelling from Cairo to Aswan were derailed in the Upper Egyptian village of Kom Ombo on Sunday. According to the Health Ministry, six passengers were treated for minor injuries at Kom Ombo Central Hospital and were discharged (...)
In recent years a flourishing global industry has developed as countries offer foreigners the chance to acquire residency, and in some cases citizenship, in return for real estate and business investments. Now Egypt has decided to follow suit.
Last (...)
Sixty-one people were injured when three carriages of a passenger train heading from Cairo to Qena derailed on Friday 13 July in Marazik village, close to Badrashin station.
Prosecutor-General Nabil Sadek immediately confiscated the train's black (...)
Sixty-one people were injured when three carriages of a passenger train heading from Cairo to Qena derailed on Friday in Marazik village, close to Badrashin station.
Prosecutor-General Nabil Sadek immediately confiscated the train's black box and (...)
