"We are not saying the human rights situation in Egypt is rosy, we still have problems, but at least there are signs the political will exists to improve the human rights situation in Egypt," Essam Shiha, the head of the Egyptian Organisation for (...)
Despite the lack of an agreement in sight between the three countries over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopia's Minister of Water and Irrigation Seleshi Bekele has invited Egypt and Sudan to nominate operators for its controversial (...)
Though the huge Ever Given vessel was freed last week and is no longer blocking the Suez Canal it remains anchored in the Great Bitter Lake midway along the length of the canal waiting for its ordeal to reach an end.
The 400-metre-long vessel was (...)
Egypt's dilapidated railway network has once again been making headlines after last Friday's tragic train collision in the Upper Egyptian Sohag governorate that led to the deaths of 18 people and the injury of 200 more.
Eleven different officials (...)
The VesselFinder ship-tracking website showed on Monday's dawn that Ever Given ship blocking the Suez Canal since Tuesday has been re-floated successfully.
According to Ever Given's real time position that has been displayed by VesselFinder, the (...)
Owners of fuel-powered cars wishing to replace their old cars with new hybrid ones as part of the first phase of the Go Green presidential initiative have been allowed to submit their requests online.
Since the initiative was launched two months (...)
"The Egyptian countryside will be transformed in three years' time," President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi said in January when the second phase of the Decent Life initiative to develop 4,500 rural villages was launched.
The plan to develop rural areas is (...)
More than 45,000 people have registered on Egypt's Health Ministry's designated website to receive the coronavirus vaccine during the first 12 hours of the website's launch, according to the ministry.
This comes almost a year after Egypt detected (...)
Egypt's cabinet has decided to submit a draft law to the House of Representatives to amend Law No. 186/2020 that had amended some provisions of Law No. 114/1946 regulating real estate registration, a cabinet statement said on Sunday following a (...)
Parliament recently approved new amendments to Traffic Law 66/1972 proposed by the government.
According to a report issued by the parliament's Transport Committee, the new amendments aim to support the smart transport system which President (...)
In his policy statement before Egypt's new parliament on 31 January, Minister of Transport Kamel Al-Wazir said that it had been planned to implement 2,173 projects at a total cost of LE1,522 billion from 2014 to 2024 in the sectors for which the (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi sent messages to Arab leaders expressing Cairo's intention to re-nominate Ahmed Abul-Gheit as secretary-general of the Arab League (AL) for a second five-year term, Presidential Spokesperson Bassam Rady said in (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated the first phase of the Al-Fayrouz fish-farming project, the Middle East's largest fish farm located east of Port Said about 196km northeast of Cairo, on Saturday.
The project is built on an area of 15,886 (...)
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 (...)
