Cheiron, a subsidiary of the Egyptian conglomerate PICO Group, has acquired a 50% stake in Sahara North Bahariya Ltd, the owner of the North Bahariya Concession in the Western Desert, for $83m.
According to sources related to the deal, the acquired (...)
Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi has said he would support resistance in Lebanon and Palestine against Israel if he became president. “I will support Hamas and Hezbollah in their endeavor,” he said.
“The fate of the peace treaty will be (...)
The military broke up a sit-in in front of Gharbiya Governorate headquarters on Saturday afternoon. The sit-in was staged by various political groups including the 6 April Youth Movement and the Freedom and Justice Party.
Protesters demanded the (...)
A number of political parties and human rights groups are attempting to destabilize Egypt by utilizing grants estimated at LE1 billion, which had been allocated by the United States and the European Union (EU) to support the country, an Egyptian (...)
Novelist Alaa Hamed, representative of the Egyptian Secular Party, accused Salafi leaders of destroying the fence around his house with bulldozers on Tuesday. He said the reason for the destruction, which took place in the village of Zefta, Gharbiya (...)
Hundreds of Sufis reached Tanta Thursday evening to celebrate the birthday of revered Sufi al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Badawī. They staged marches throughout the city and some distributed leaflets attacking Salafis and calling them the enemies of Islam.
One (...)
Ousted President Hosni Mubarak has so far escaped investigation in connection with the killing of demonstrators during the 25 January revolution because none of the suspects in the case have implicated him in their testimonies, according to a (...)
A Public Prosecution investigation has revealed that former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly placed five snipers at the window of his office in the interior ministry, and that some of them shot at people who were demonstrating around the building on (...)
CAIRO: Shipping at Egypt's Suez Canal was unaffected by a strike by canal employees on Saturday, a Suez Canal Authority (SCA) official said.
Dozens of employees at the Suez Canal gathered in front of one of the canal's administrative buildings in (...)
CAIRO: Around 1,000 Egyptians protested on Sunday in a city east of Cairo after a woman was killed by an army vehicle during a demonstration, eyewitnesses said.
The incident marked the latest eruption of public anger in the wake of countrywide (...)
Authorities at the city of Mahalla, an Egyptian laborers hub west of Cairo, beefed up security at the city's entrances on Tuesday in anticipation of labor protests.
Meanwhile, political groups in the city circulated leaflets urging citizens to stage (...)
More than 350 horse cart owners on Wednesday staged protests in the Nile Delta city of Mahala against being banned from the city's main streets under the pretext that they obstruct traffic.
Demanding that authorities revoke the decision, they (...)
Truck drivers across Egypt will resume their strike for the fifth consecutive day to voice opposition over legislation that, they claim, is poised to increase taxes on trucks and fines for excess cargo.
A Monday meeting in Tanta, Gharbiya, convened (...)
The commission supervising the voting process in Gharbiya announced today the results of the poll in six constituencies, namely Bassioun, Kafr al-Zayyat, Tanta, Santa, Samannoud and Nahatai.
In Bassioun, Brotherhood candidate Alam Eddin Sakhawi and (...)
At an iftar banquet held by the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), Gamal Mubarak, NDP assistant secretary-general and son of President Hosni Mubarak, told representatives of the country's farmers that they could expect "good news" if the ruling (...)
The families of lawyers Ehab Sai al-Din and Mustafa Fatuh, who were sentenced earlier this year to five years in prison for assaulting Tanta Chief Prosecutor Basim Abu al-Rus, have issued a plea to President Hosni Mubarak for the release of the two (...)
Three children in the village of Zefta in the Gharbiya Government were reported on Wednesday to have been infected with the fashiola disease, causing panic among local residents.
All three cases showed symptoms usually associated with the illness, (...)
Electricity cuts continued in a number of Cairo districts and other provinces, sparking outrage among citizens. In Suez, citizens are subject to disconnections up to three times a day.
The Minister of Electricity and Energy, Hassan Younis, called (...)
Minister of Education Ahmed Zaki Badr has decided to grant an extra two months' salary to staff at the General Authority of Educational Buildings, and to reactivate the medical care provided to the staff in an attempt to solve the recent crisis (...)
Gharbiya--Employees of the General Authority for Educational Buildings staged a protest yesterday in front of the Tanta branch in Gharbiya, complaining that Minister of Education Ahmed Zaki Badr has canceled their annual bonus and that he portrayed (...)
The National Association for Change (NAC) held its first conference on Friday under the title “Together we Change”. The Doctors Syndicate branch in the province of Gharbiya hosted the event.
NAC members expressed scathing criticism of the ruling (...)
Amonsito textile workers suspended their ongoing sit-in late Wednesday after reaching an agreement with Textile Workers Syndicate head Said el-Gohary to postpone further protest actions until high profile meetings take place.
The workers will (...)
Al-Masry Al-Youm has captured in pictures how tons of sewage and industrial waste from seven drainage ditches flow into the drainage canal of Shahada, in the village of el-Nassarya, Gharbiya Governorate. The Shahada drainage canal, which in turn (...)
Defense lawyers for members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition group currently being held in Borg el-Arab Prison near Alexandria have filed a complaint with the attorney general in which they claimed their clients were being deprived of (...)
Officers from the Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) who are in the third day of their sit-in strike in front of the People's Assembly said they have been threatened by their general managers who said they would fire all participants of (...)