The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) contributes with EGP 1.4 billion to finance the upgrade project of West Damietta Power Plant in Egypt, the country's Electricity Minister announced on Sunday.
Egyptian Minister of Energy and Electricity Eng. Ahmed (...)
In a new positive promising step for Egypt's tourism industry, Italy has lifted this morning the travel ban to Egypt's North Coast cities, to be added to other Egyptian tourist destinations upon which travel warnings are not imposed anymore.
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Egyptian Ministry of Electricity has signed on Sunday with one of the Canadian consultancy firms, a consulting contract worth US$ one million for the milestone Power Interconnection Project between Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Eng. Ahmed Emam – the (...)
Minister of Electricity and Energy Ahmed Imam stated within the meeting of the General Assembly for the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company that the total implemented investment plan for the year of 2012/2013 reached EGP16.5 billion.
Imam explained (...)
Egypt's foreign ministry said it summoned Qatar's ambassador on Saturday in protest at Doha's criticism of the military-installed government's crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
"The Qatari ambassador was summoned over a statement by the Qatari (...)
A spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Badr Abdel Atti, asserted that the Japanese firms started intensive campaign for promoting the tourist trips to Egypt, in conjunction with the visit of Nabil Fahmy the Egyptian Foreign Minister to Japan (...)
Egypt and South Korea have agreed today to establish a petrochemical plant worth US$ 4.8 billion in Ain Sokhna.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy has signed on Tuesday with the South Korean government a contract in the amount of US$ 4.8 billion (...)
Egyptian Ministry of Electricity will be signing today an agreement with Banque Misr (BM) over obtaining a sharia-compliant finance designed for Walidia Thermal Power Plant in Asyut.
Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Energy Ahmed Emam will be (...)
Egypt and Saudi Arabia are set to sign today 3 new contracts within the framework of their $1.6 billion electricity grid interconnection agreement.
Under the auspices of the Egyptian Prime Minister Dr. Hazem el-Beblawi, Egyptian Minister of (...)
Under the auspices of the Egyptian Prime Minister Dr. Hazem el-Beblawi, Egyptian Minister of Electricity Ahmed Emam and Saudi Minister of Transport, Water and Electricity Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman Al Husayen, Egypt and Saudi Arabia will be signing (...)
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdel Atty said the ministry is seeking to convince the European countries in order to amend their travel advising on Egypt's Luxor and Aswan.
Abdel Atty has mentioned the important role of the Egyptian (...)
The Portuguese government has decided to exclude Luxor and Aswan from its travel alert on Egypt on Saturday in the light of the efforts exerted by the Egyptian embassy in Portugal during the previous period.
Mahfouz Ali, the Head of Egyptian Tourism (...)
In a new development in the strained Egypt-Turkey relations, Egypt has decided to recall its ambassador to Turkey and summon the Turkish envoy in Cairo, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Saturday.
A statement issued by the ministry's spokesman (...)
Moscow is confident that the scale of tourism cooperation with Egypt will be restored after the lift of the state of emergency in that country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a press conference on Thursday after his negotiations in (...)
Estonian tour operators have decided to go on with their tourist destinations plans for Egypt for the next winter, the Egyptian Ambassador to Helsinki told Amwal Al Ghad on Saturday.
Egypt's Ambassador to Helsinki, Mr. Mohamed Abdel Hamid Kassem (...)
Egypt's Ambassador to Sanaa Ashraf Aql has held a press conference at the embassy on Thursday inviting a number of news agencies, channels and newspapers delegates. H.E. Aql has presented an overview of the January 25th Revolution and the successive (...)
On growing security concerns, Poland has placed on Wednesday the Arab Republic of Egypt in the third level or to "yellow" of its four-level Outbound Travel Alert system, the Head of the Poland's Foreign Ministry Press Service said.
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The newly-appointed Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nabil Fahmy, had a phone call with the Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. Both ministers tackled some critical regional issues; giving preference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the (...)
Egypt's Ambassador to Ethiopia Mohamed Idris has recently received the renowned British-Egyptian heart surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub and his medical team who are currently paying a visit to Addis Ababa from July 13th to 17th.
Sir Yacoub and his medical (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr has tendered his resignation, the state news agency MENA reported early on Tuesday, after millions of Egyptians rallied against President Mohamed Morsi.
The report did not elaborate or say where it got the (...)
An informed source in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that Egypt has no intention to hand over the headquarters of Syrian Embassy in Cairo to the Syrian National Coalition; indicating that the coalition has already a headquarters (...)
Egyptian ambassador to Khartoum Abdel Ghaffar El-Deeb, has delivered a symbolic gift from Egypt to Sudan Blue Nile and Dilling Universities which including several technical devices, computers and printers, this has done during the meeting with (...)
Ambassador Badr Abdel Atty, state spokesperson of Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has confirmed that Egypt appreciates the brotherly relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its people; pointing out that their relations, which (...)
Ms. Wafaa al-Hadidi, Consul General of Egypt in Istanbul, has ordered to let the Egyptian Consulate open throughout 24 hours in order to receive the Egyptian citizens who need shelter from the current turmoil in Istanbul.
The Consulate has already (...)
Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Kamel Amr has hailed the American Russian agreement about ending the bloody conflict in Syria.
On the sidelines of his participation in the International donors' conference that opened in Brussels this (...)