Egypt's Health Ministry announced this week that it temporarily suspended receiving applications from volunteers who are offering their services in dealing with the spread of the coronavirus.
The ministry's Central Unit for Medical Service Providers (...)
After weeks of dealing with the Covid-19 outbreak as onlookers, Egyptians suddenly found themselves in the middle of the storm this week with the government announcing several strict precautionary measures to prevent its spread.
Schools, (...)
Egypt's health minister Hala Zayed said on Saturday that the number of coronavirus cases on board the Luxor Nile cruiser has risen to 45.
The minister's remarks came at a press conference on Saturday announcing that 33 new cases have tested (...)
A two-year-old bill regulating street parking has been referred to the State Council for approval.
The referral followed parliamentary approval which came two years after the House of Representatives' Local Administration Committee first gave its (...)
Egyptian religious tourism companies were in disarray after Saudi Arabia suspended travel to the holy sites for the minor pilgrimage (Umra) over fears of the spread of the coronavirus.
The decision comes at the start of Umra's high season which (...)
The coronavirus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, had up until 11 February killed 1,016 people with 42,638 confirmed cases in China alone. Fears of infection have stimulated huge demand for protective masks, including in Egypt.
“We (...)
“The success of US businesses in Egypt is in America's best interests. It's good for the US economy and it's good for US-Egypt relations,” US Ambassador to Egypt Jonathan Cohen said this week.
The recently-appointed US ambassador's remarks came (...)
The UK will host the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London on 20 January.
In preparation for the summit, which is expected to be one of the largest investment summits worldwide, Britain's Ambassador to Egypt Geoffrey Adams held a meeting on Monday (...)
Egypt's Administrative Control Authority (ACA) on Friday announced the arrest of Abdel-Azim Hussein, the head of the Egyptian Tax Authority (ETA).
In a more detailed statement issued on Sunday the ACA said it had acted on information that Hussein (...)
The Suez Canal Authority this week marked the 150th anniversary of the Suez Canal. The canal first became operational on 17 November 1869.
Since its inauguration, 1.3 million ships carrying cargo weighing 28.6 billion tons and worth $135.9 billion (...)
Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia agreed on Saturday to continue the technical consultations and discussions on all contentious issues over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during the second meeting, scheduled to be held in Cairo on (2-3) (...)
“Egypt has advanced 90 ranks in world road quality. We are going to advance even more, not only in roads but also in education, health, governance and anti-corruption,” President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi said last week while inaugurating several new (...)
The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan met in Washington on Wednesday 6 November with the aim of reaching an agreement on the operation and filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in a way that does not affect Egypt's quota (...)
“Instead of half an hour, it took my two children six hours to get back home from school last week.” Yasmine Aziz, a housewife in her 30s, was describing her children's ordeal trying to return home in Nasr City from Ghamra, 12 kilometres away. “They (...)
HEAVY rains flooded Greater Cairo on Tuesday, bringing traffic to a halt for several hours. Many districts east of Cairo remained almost impossible to reach due to accumulated rainwater on the streets. The cabinet decided to suspend schools and (...)
The General Prosecution announced the release of 500 detainees arrested in the wake of anti-government protests on 20 September. The announcement followed the release of 200 detainees last week.
Sections of the media, MPs and NGOs had joined in (...)
Accurate health insurance
PRESIDENT Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi on Monday called for the “accurate implementation” of the comprehensive health insurance system to provide high-quality service to Egyptians.
The president's statement came during a meeting (...)
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Saturday that Egyptians have only one of two options in the war against terrorism: "either to surrender to terrorism or confront and eliminate it."
President El-Sisi warned that "terrorism is the only weapon (...)
On his first visit to Egypt, Alan Bacarese spoke to Al-Ahram Weekly on the sidelines of the first African Anti-Corruption Forum about Egyptian and African efforts to fight corruption.
Bacarese has long experience of fighting corruption, beginning (...)
“Corruption is a lesion gnawing at the economics of states,” President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi said in the opening session of the first African Anti-Corruption Forum (AACF), held last week for two days in Sharm El-Sheikh.
Forty-eight African countries (...)
The first African Anti-Corruption Forum (AACF), held in Sharm El-Sheikh International Congress Centre (SICC), concludes its sessions today.
The two-day AACF's main objective was to encourage African countries to adopt policies, programmes and work (...)
Yasser Al-Sherif, a 36-year-old fabric dealer, had driven from Nasr City with his brother and nephew especially to see the Tahya Masr Bridge. “It makes me proud,” he told Al-Ahram Weekly between snapping photographs.
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi (...)
Yasser Al-Sherif, a 36-year-old fabric dealer, had driven from Nasr City with his brother and nephew especially to see the Tahya Masr Bridge. “It makes me proud,” he told Al-Ahram Weekly between snapping photographs.
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Saturday received Saudi Ambassador to Egypt Osama al-Nugali, who conveyed greetings from King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman.
According to a statement from El-Sisi's spokesman (...)
US dollar fell below EGP17 for the first time in two years as the Egyptian pound continued to slowly rise against it at the end of transaction in various major banks in local market on Thursday.
The US dollar declined on Thursday and hit EGP16.99 (...)
