Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi congratulated in a video conference call on Wednesday evening Pope Tawadros II, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, on the occasion of Coptic Christmas.
President El-Sisi confirmed to Pope Tawadros II his (...)
“We are now thinking proactively in dealing with the pandemic,” Islam Anan, professor of pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics, told Al-Ahram Weekly when asked about the newly-announced initiative by the Health Ministry to register and monitor (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi took office in 2014 and immediately launched a National Road Project to develop and upgrade the existing road network and build thousands of kilometres of new roads. In the same year, he ordered the creation of a 72km (...)
Egypt has become the first African country to get the Chinese coronavirus vaccine after receiving the first batch from the Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm on 10 December. Despite official statements from the Egyptian health (...)
For the first time in almost five months, starting 2 December, Egypt's daily coronavirus cases reached over 400. On Monday, Egypt's Health Ministry reported 415 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total infection tally to 118,847 — including 103,703 (...)
Sudan's Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas stressed on Wednesday that his country's great benefits from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) cannot be achieved without signing a binding legal agreement, a statement by the Sudanese ministry (...)
Egypt's Minister of Transport Kamel Al-Wazir has urged local and international private sector companies to invest in 33 projects the ministry is currently planning.
“We count on the private sector to play its role in development and are always in (...)
Egypt saw a 156 per cent increase in the number of electronic transactions in October compared to March 2020, the National Telecoms Regulatory Authority (NTRA) said in a report published last week.
The NTRA report recorded an increase from 3.9 (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reaffirmed on Wednesday the Egyptian constants regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), especially with regard to the resumption of tripartite negotiations to reach a binding and comprehensive (...)
The Egyptian auto industry witnessed a 5-10 per cent rise in the price of new passenger cars in the beginning of the fourth quarter of the year after seeing a noticeable recovery in sales during the third quarter of 2020.
According to experts, the (...)
“People wore face masks in the summer out of anxiety and fear,” Yasmine Mohamed, 41, told Al-Ahram Weekly. But once infections began to tail off, she, like many others, dropped the habit.
“Few places insist you wear a mask nowadays, says Salma (...)
Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Wednesday that the government is preparing to commence with the next step in implementing the pilot phase of the state's comprehensive healthcare system, which will take place in Luxor governorate (...)
What is the Mostorod Complex?
The new complex is owned by Al-Qalaa Holding's Egyptian Refining Company (ERC) and represents an estimated investment of $4.4 billion. It is a state-of-the-art greenfield hydrocracking complex and one of the most (...)
What is the Egyptian Refining Company's Mostorod Complex?
The new complex is owned by Al-Qalaa Holding's Egyptian Refining Company (ERC) and represents an estimated investment of $4.4 billion. It is a state-of-the-art greenfield hydrocracking (...)
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Friday his country has "no intention of harming" Egypt and Sudan with its $4.8 billion near-complete dam on the Blue Nile.
Ahmed's remarks came during his address to the 75th Session of the United Nations (...)
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 (...)
