Cairo - Egyptian police have received a fleet of vehicles equipped with detention rooms and sophisticated technological equipment to apprehend extremists and criminals.
Egyptian Interior Ministry confirmed the purchase of the vans which will be used (...)
The Private Aviation Association is exploring the idea of setting up a new ground services company to include all companies working in Egypt to counter the hike of EgyptAir's prices. Already the body is seeking audience with President Abdel Fattah (...)
Egyptian business executes have said they are interested in investing in Tanzania.
They recently toured Tanzania to explore investment opportunities.
Delegation leader Moustaf Nour told The Citizen that Tanzania's abundant resources and conducive (...)
More than 37,000 people have fled South Sudan for neighbouring Uganda in the last three weeks following intense fighting between rival troops that left hundreds dead, the UN's refugee body said Tuesday.
An already shaky 2015 peace deal signed after (...)
The deputy chairman of South Sudan's National Alliance of opposition parties says he is concerned by continuing targeting civilians in Juba city even after the ceasefire was declared last week and government forces were ordered to return to their (...)
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi interviewed on Monday 8/2/2016 by "Jeune Afrique", a French language weekly news magazine published in Paris.
The interview was made on the occasion of a major African investment forum, slated for Feb. 20 and 21 in (...)
The Minister of Investment Dr. Mudathir Abdul-Ghani said that the state's plan aims to raise the production capacity of cement to five million instead of three million tons per year to achieve self-sufficiency and export the surplus.
This came in a (...)
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza said the country will defend itself against any peacekeepers the African Union plans to send to quell its eight-month political crisis.
"If these troops come, it will be seen as an attack and the country will (...)
IN recent years, it seemed everything the Horn of Africa nations of Ethiopia and Djibouti touched turned into gold of some sort.
Ethiopia, Africa's second largest country by population after Nigeria, and has notched up Africa's fastest growth – (...)
The African Union says it has written to Burundi's president urging him to consent to the deployment of a peacekeeping force to quell the country's escalating unrest.
In statement A.U. Commission Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma stressed that there (...)
Agriculture Minister Essam Fayed stressed the strong relations between Egypt and Tanzania in the various fields especially the agriculture domain.
The minister made these remarks during leading the Egyptian delegation to the inauguration ceremony of (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry extended thanks to Hungary for not taking any measures or decisions that affect the Egyptian economy.
He also thanked Hungary for not changing travel advice to Egypt, despite the swift decisions taken by a (...)
Families driven out of villages, farmers unable to tend crops, food stocks of entire communities raided: Boko Haram's impact on the people of Western and Central Africa lingers long after the rape and slaughter.
More than 5.5 million people living (...)
Ma'aliya members of the East Darfur Youth Commission staged a sit-in in front of the Ministry of Justice in Ed Daein this morning, in protest against the silence of the authorities regarding the repeated clashes between the Ma'aliya and Rizeigat (...)
The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia and Head of AMISOM Ambassador Maman Sidikou strongly condemns the attack on Somali Army recruits at their training camp at the old airport in Kismayo on (...)
Two trailers suspected to be carrying logistics support for the Boko Haram terrorists have been intercepted and destroyed by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Agusta Helicopter on reconnaissance mission around the Nigeria-Cameroon border.
A statement by (...)
Following a spate of deadly shipwrecks of the coast of Libya, the UN refugee agency has announced that it has set up a forum to improve the country's response to boats in distress its waters by streamlining information sharing and coordination with (...)
DOHA: On the eve of the close of the 18th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP18), here in Doha, nobody is talking about possible breakthroughs in any of the key issues at stake in the UN sponsored climate (...)
DOHA: A cross section of experts and policymakers attending the ongoing Doha climate talks has agreed that substantial investments in climate services for Africa's development would serve the interests of users and stakeholders beyond the (...)
(AP) – President of Zambia's Football Association Kalusha Bwalya says the African champions have accepted an apology from South African officials over the stoning of their team bus following an international friendly in Johannesburg.
Bwalya on (...)
VENTURES AFRICA – Dr Eleni Gabre-Madhin, an Ethiopian economist and founder and outgoing CEO of the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX), is an African woman who saw in need, a powerful opportunity. Using her training as an economist and researcher, (...)
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded its 2006 world Women and Sport Trophy to Argentine tennis player Gabriela Sabatini at an official ceremony held at the headquarters of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva
While (...)
Restaurant review:
Africa unite
The zebra will come on the plate, while the lion sleeps tonight
I had seen the advert on television and must confess to being intrigued. One is nonetheless usually wary of theme restaurants -- the wilder the ambition, (...)
ZAMALEK was the third sports club founded in Egypt, in 1911, in Giza. It was called Al-Mokhtalat (the Amalgamated). King Farouk was known to be a zealous Ahli fan and a great admirer of the legendary duo of Mansour and El-Titsh. In the final of the (...)