Egypt's United Media Services (UMS) has revealed its new Board of Directors, with Hassan Abdallah appointed as the group's Chairperson.
The company's board members include Ashraf Salman, Tamer Morsi, Mohamed Saadi, Amr El Fekky, and Mohamed Samir. (...)
World leaders and top diplomats welcomed the Egyptian-mediated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that came into force on Friday, ending an 11-day assault on Gaza.
Once the ceasefire began, fireworks lit the skies as Palestinians flocked to the (...)
Israel and Hamas have agreed to Egypt's ceasefire initiative, which would go into effect at 2am on Friday.
Cairo will send two delegations to Gaza and Tel Aviv to ensure implementation and discuss next steps, under the directives of President Abdel (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed the ongoing bloodshed in the Palestinian territories and Israel, US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said on Sunday.
During the phone call, Blinken (...)
Egyptian and US navies have conducted a joint drill in the Red Sea, Egypt's Armed Forces announced in a statement on Thursday.
The passing exercise (PASSEX) was held with the participation of the Egyptian frigate 'Taba' and missile boat 'June 18'. (...)
There is no place better than the Sinai's Nuweiba, where you can capture the real essence of the desert: waking at sunrise, just moments before the sun peaks over the mountains, and diving into the water just as the sun rises amidst the clouds. When (...)
Egypt has signed a contract with France to buy 30 Rafale fighter jets, the Egyptian Ministry of Defence announced early Tuesday.
The deal which was reported by investigative website Disclose on Monday is worth $4.5bn.
According to a press statement (...)
African civil society representatives participating in the recent Nile for Peace Conference, which took place on 5-11 April in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, have called for a postponement to the massive Ethiopian dam second filling.
Egypt was (...)
An Egyptian and international salvaging team has succeeded in partially freeing the grounded Panamanian container ship Ever Given that had become stuck on the banks of the Suez canal for six days.
The flotation comes after the ship responded to the (...)
The grounded container ship in Suez Canal has been re-floated successfully, which means that navigation along the Canal can be resumed, Admiral Osama Rabie, Chairperson of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), announced on Monday.
The EVER GIVEN vessel (...)
Admiral Osama Rabie, Chairperson of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), announced on Monday that the grounded Ever Given container ship has been re-floated successfully, which means that navigation along the Suez Canal can also be resumed.
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Egypt aims to become a world class mining hub, raising exports to $10bn by 2040, up from $1.6bn currently, Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El-Molla said on Thursday.
His statements came during AmCham Egypt's Monthly (...)
Several Western countries expressed their concern about the trajectory of human rights in Egypt in a Friday joint statement at the UN Human Rights Council. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry expressed "great surprise and disapproval" in reaction to the (...)
Turkey or any other country that aspires to establish normal relations with Egypt must abide by international law and the principles of good neighbourliness, a high-level Egyptian source told Daily News Egypt on Friday.
The source comment came in (...)
The human rights committee of the Egyptian House of Representatives, headed by Tarek Radwan, condemned, on Friday, the joint statement by 31 countries over human rights situation in Egypt.
The United States, which has observer status at the UN Human (...)
Without a doubt, life for many of us has changed beyond recognition compared to just one year ago, as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has changed that way we undertake daily tasks forever.
One major change in the past year has been to turn (...)
Eritrean troops operating in the Ethiopian city of Axum, Tigray,
committed a series of human rights and humanitarian law violations, including killing hundreds of civilians, Amnesty International said Friday
According to the report, Eritrean (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry received, on Tuesday, a phone call from his US counterpart Antony Blinken. Blinken said that he looks to strengthening the Egyptian-US historic partnership.
The Secretary and the Foreign Minister highlighted (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with his Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anastasiades in Nicosia, on Wednesday, to discuss the growing bilateral relations between the two countries.
Al-Sisi arrived in Nicosia for an official visit, on (...)
Somaliland looks forward to having stronger diplomatic, economic, and trade ties with Egypt, Somaliland's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Liban Yousouf Osman, told Daily News Egypt on Saturday.
Osman confirmed to DNE that a high-level Egyptian (...)
Ethiopia's Minister of Water, Irrigation, and Energy Sileshi Bekele retracted, on Wednesday, his previous statement to the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) on the filling of the Ethiopian Nile dam, according to the Associated Press (AP).
He (...)
Poland's incumbent President Andrzej Duda has won re-election after winning the second-round election, the National Electoral Commission (PKW) said on Monday.
The incumbent, supported by the governing Law and Justice party, won 51.21 percent of the (...)
An estimated 8 in 10 girls in countries such as Egypt and Sudan who undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) have the procedure done in healthcare professionals' offices, according to Luay Shabaneh, Regional Director for Arab States in United Nations (...)
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia resumed negotiations aimed at reaching an accord over the filling of Ethiopia's new hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile, according to a Friday statement from the Sudanese Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas.
In statements to (...)
Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia heads of state participated in African Union (AU) mini-summit, to discuss the the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Friday. Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Sudan's PM Abdalla Hamdok, and Ethiopia's PM Abiy (...)
