Leaders of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia agreed during a mini-summit on Friday to form a committee of legal and technical experts of the three countries to draft a final binding deal on Ethiopia's hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile and avoid any (...)
Libya's UN-supported government said it had arrested the culprits behind the detention and mistreatment of a group of Egyptian workers in Libya in an incident that has sparked widespread outrage.
Footage circulated on social media in recent days (...)
Egypt's drugmaker Eva Pharma said on Sunday it had reached a “landmark” deal with Gilead Sciences Inc to become the licensed manufacturer of the US company's antiviral treatment Remdesivir for COVID-19 in 127 countries.
Remdesivir is the first (...)
Egypt and Sudan have refused an agreement proposed by Ethiopia on its controversial giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile, a letter Egypt sent on 1 May to the United Nations Security Council revealed.
Ethiopia has dismissed a deal crafted by the US (...)
Egypt has reduced its target for its gross domestic product growth in the fiscal year ending June to 5.1% from 5.6%, Planning Minister Hala El-Saeed said on Thursday, on the back of the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
The move (...)
Egypt's top Muslim clerics have issued religious advice allowing people to avoid religious gatherings and pray at home due to the coronavirus outbreak, but on Friday, many worshippers chose to crowd into Cairo's mosques for weekly prayers.
“I never (...)
The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan agreed on Wednesday to reach a deal over the filling and operation of a giant hydropower dam in Ethiopia's Blue Nile by 15 January, the US Treasury has said.
Following talks in Washington mediated (...)
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde says Egypt's economy has continued to show strong growth, with unemployment falling to its lowest levels since the 2011 popular revolution.
The remarks came following Lagarde's meeting (...)
A Cairo criminal court has ordered the conditional release of satirist and video blogger Shady Abu Zeid after nine months in pre-trial detention, his lawyer said on Sunday.
Abu Zeid was arrested in May 2018 over charges including spearing fake news (...)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Cairo next week as part of a Middle East trip for talks on security and stability in the region, the State Department said on Friday.
Pompeo will embark on the eight-country tour on Tuesday, starting with (...)
The UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 14) will officially kick off in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh on Saturday, four days after African ministerial meetings discussed the continent's biodiversity priorities and future work (...)
Egypt's agriculture ministry says it will put into effect a 2009 law banning the trade of live poultry in a bid to improve poultry production, combat environmental pollution and prevent the spread of diseases like bird flu.
The law bans the (...)
Egyptian Preident Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York on Thursday to discuss efforts to revive the Middle East peace process, a presidential spokesman said.
During the talks, El-Sisi stressed the (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated a giant $1.1 billion cement and marble complex south of Cairo on Wednesday as part of the government's development drive.
The 5 km² industrial complex, which Egypt says is the largest in the Middle (...)
Egypt's health ministry has said that a 66-year-old Egyptian pilgrim died in Saudi Arabia ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, which is due to begin on 19 August.
The death of the man, who died in the city of Medina after falling into a coma due to (...)
Egypt has purchased a new 6.8 million euro railway track inspection vehicle as part of efforts to enhance the safety of an outdated railway system dogged by frequent accidents, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported.
The track recording and (...)
Egypt has condemned two terrorist attacks that killed over two dozen people in Afghanistan on Tuesday.
Fifteen people were killed in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad when gunmen stormed a government building after a suicide bomber blew (...)
Egypt's parliament on Monday passed amendments to laws that govern citizenship and residency regulations for foreigners.
The new amendments allow foreigners who deposit at least EGP 7 million (approx. $391,000) in an Egyptian bank to acquire (...)
The European Union has removed additional import controls placed on Egyptian strawberries, following Egypt's implementation of "very rigorous" inspection standards for its exported produce of the fruit, Egypt's agriculture ministry spokesman told (...)
The Egyptian government has formed a committee to investigate complaints about the operation and spending of prominent charity hospital 57357, Egypt's Social Solidarity minister Ghada Waly said.
The move comes two weeks after prominent screenwriter (...)
Egyptians headed to polling stations on Tuesday for the second day of voting in the country's presidential elections, which are widely expected to result in a comfortable victory for incumbent President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
Polling locations in (...)
Speaking a few days before polls are set to open, the sole competitor running against incumbent President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in the country's presidential election maintains he entered the race meaning to win, although he acknowledges many (...)
An Egyptian parliamentary delegation flew to London on Thursday to hold a series of meetings with British officials after the death of a Egyptian teenager in Nottingham earlier this month in the UK.
Eighteen-year-old Mariam Moustafa was left in a (...)
Egypt's Administrative Court on Tuesday issued an order banning taxi-hailing services Uber and Careem from operating in the country, with lawyer representing taxi drivers saying the government may take up to a month to implement the decision.
The (...)
Noura Hassan's tiny top-floor flat in the central Cairo neighborhood of Bulaq contains barely any furniture; instead, her belongings have been packed into dozen of cardboard boxes.
In the bedroom, rolled carpets and bed slats lean against the walls, (...)