The police and the army continued their campaign on Wednesday of cleansing the streets of Cairo of illegal vendors.
Vendors were driven away from 120 locations, and cafes were ordered not to place chairs on the sidewalks.
In the Sayeda Zeinab (...)
A dispute between the official Public Transport Workers Syndicate and its independent counterpart about staging a general strike escalated on Saturday, as workers at Fom al-Khaleeg Garage began the strike on Saturday in spite of the independent (...)
Deteriorating sanitary conditions, including sewage leaks and uncollected garbage, are threatening the Ezbet al-Nasr neighborhood in Cairo's Basateen district with environmental crisis, say local residents.
They say that repeated complaints filed (...)
A committee--to be headed by General Mahmoud Yassin, Cairo's western region Deputy Governor--will soon be established to supervise the planned development of slum areas in Cairo's Bulaq district. Areas included in a government development plan (...)
Traffic has come to a halt in New Cairo after two major water pipelines broke, flooding the area.
To avoid the high cost of buying large amounts of bottled water, some residents went to visit relatives elsewhere in Cairo and filled jerrycans with (...)
Cairo governor Abdel Azim Wazir inaugurated a number of projects at el-Obour market yesterday. The renovations include the installation of new booths, scales, and computers connected to a data network which have increased revenues to a net profit of (...)
An engineering committee formed by government rail and road authorities to inspect Cairo's Tunsi overpass, from which a car plummeted last week onto a market below before bursting into flames, found the overpass to be in "bad condition."
According (...)
Mostafa el-Shimi, a housing ministry project manager, has said that 40 percent of Cairo's drinking water is wasted either as a result of deteriorating supply networks or bad social habits like using water to wash building stairwells and (...)
A committee investigating alleged misconduct at el-Tofoula el-Saeeda orphanage has uncovered serious financial and administrative violations on the part of the orphanage's management which, according to the committee's report, necessitate the (...)
Ninety-nine percent of collapsed buildings in Cairo had demolition orders that were not implemented due to owners' negligence, said Governor of Cairo Abdel Azim Wazir.
The governor added that in most cases the buildings were owned by a group of (...)
The authorities issued demolition orders for ten buildings in the Khalifa district that are on the verge of collapse. The 30 families living in the buildings requested that the government provide them with alternative housing before they (...)
Meteorological experts are predicting a cold front for the weekend. For the third consecutive day, temperatures in Egypt are expected to hit lower than average rates, ranging between 4°C and 5°C.
Temperatures are expected to fall until Saturday, (...)
Workers from Amonsito and Nubaria Engineering and Agricultural Automation Company were joined by demonstrators with physical disabilities Monday night in a sleep-in before the Egyptian parliament in downtown Cairo. The diverse group protested the (...)
The area in front of the parliament building in downtown Cairo witnessed five demonstrations on Monday. Protesters included disgruntled employees of a textiles company and an agricultural automation firm, handicapped citizens demanding social (...)
Dozens of teachers from Kafr el-Sheikh and Sharqia Governorates are calling on Minister of Education Ahmed Zaki Badr to fulfill promises he made earlier to raise their salaries. The protesters threatened an open-ended strike and chanted, "The (...)
Stringent measures laid down by the Health Ministry aimed at minimizing the spread of the H1N1 virus among school students have cast a shadow over preparations for mid-term exams scheduled to begin next week in Cairo and Giza.
"We will provide more (...)
Five classes in Cairo and Helwan will be closed for 15 days due to new swine flu cases. Cairo Deputy Education Minister Abdel Fattah Gado confirmed these closures, with four classes in Cairo and one class in Helwan closed due to the flu.
The (...)