Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said the IMF has decided to provide aid to Egypt to support infrastructure projects, without mentioning the aid's value or when it will be disbursed.
Mahmoud Eissa, Minister of Foreign Trade and Industry, said in a (...)
In a hard-hitting response to the ruling National Democratic Party's (NDP's) recently-concluded sixth annual party congress, the opposition "Pensioners Defense Movement" issued a statement urging President Hosni Mubarak to reconsider the social and (...)
A senior Egyptian official has said that Egypt is currently considering three different geographical locations to build its first nuclear power station.
“It has not yet been decided whether a proposed nuclear power station will be established at the (...)
Around 26 families displaced by demolition orders in Duweiqa spent Monday night on the sidewalk outside the headquarters of Cairo Governorate to protest their lack of housing. The families say they will remain on the sidewalk until they receive new (...)
Dozens of residents from the Duweiqa neighborhood assembled on Monday at the Suzanne Mubarak Housing Office to protest the delay in offering alternative housing arrangements after demolition orders were issued on their homes. The gathering lasted (...)
Security forces broke up a demonstration by roughly 1500 residents of Cairo's impoverished Duweiqa district who had attempted to block the capital's ring road in protest against a government decision to demolish their homes without providing (...)
The residents of Nama village in Qalyoubeyya Governorate have been living in fear since their houses started to collapse from floods of sewage water. The village does not have a drainage network and instead depends on dredging.
Residents confirm (...)
There are no longer any complaints about damaged desks, broken windows or ramshackle bathrooms -- the secondary school at the Mohamed Fouad el-Deen Institue of Al-Azhar in Cairo's Shubra el-Kheima district has much bigger problems to contend (...)