Marking their seventh tripartite summit, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi received Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday.
During the summit the three leaders signed a joint agreement (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met on 22 August with World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom, who presented El-Sisi with the WHO's verification report on Egypt's health initiatives 100 Million Healthy Lives, Women's (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi arrived in Minsk, capital of Belarus, on Monday, the first leg of a three-day visit that included Romania. During his visit to Belarus Al-Sisi met Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko and exchanged views regarding (...)
On 19 May, the final exams of grade 10 students kicked off across the country, with 650,000 students sitting for their Arabic exams followed by biology and French and using the new computerised exams system.
The exams are scheduled to finish on 30 (...)
After a three-day break grade 10 students resumed their final exams on 26 May.
Out of 2,275 schools nationwide just 1,700 are equipped with the infrastructure needed for the computerised exam system. Some 97 per cent of students sitting exams in the (...)
At the request of parliament Al-Azhar, Egypt's three Christian churches, the National Council of Women (NCW) and a number of NGOs have prepared draft laws regulating marriage, divorce and the custody of children.
The NCW has been working for 18 (...)
The Ministry of Education is taking measures to ensure grade 10 final exams, scheduled between 19 and 30 May, run smoothly.
This year's grade 10 students have studied a revamped curriculum that places a greater stress on understanding rather than (...)
The Ministry of Education is taking measures to ensure grade 10 final exams, scheduled between 19 and 30 May, run smoothly.
This year's grade 10 students have studied a revamped curriculum that places a greater stress on understanding rather than (...)
Twelve major development projects, in central Sinai and Ismailia governorate, were inaugurated earlier this week by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi via video conference. The projects include four tunnels in Ismailia and Port Said connecting Sinai (...)
Inaugurated by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, the Arab-African Youth Platform in Aswan was attended by 1,500 young people.
During the opening, Al-Sisi stressed the important role young people can play in overcoming the challenges facing Arab and (...)
Social media was rife with jokes this week about the failure of grade 10 students to take their first exams on their new computer tablets provided by the government. Use of the tablet and the internet are part of a new education system launched this (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi held a tripartite summit with King of Jordan Abdullah II and Prime Minister of Iraq Adel Abdel-Mahdi on Sunday during which they discussed ways to enhance cooperation, coordination and integration between the three (...)
Aswan, named the Capital for African Youth by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi during November's second edition of the World Youth Forum, plays host to the Arab African Youth Platform between 16 and 18 March.
The platform will discuss the future of (...)
Inaugurated by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, the Arab-African Youth Platform in Aswan was attended by 1,500 young people.
During the inauguration Al-Sisi stressed the important role young people can play in overcoming the challenges facing Arab (...)
The Ministry of Education and Technical Education recently kept its promise by distributing tablets to grade 10 students. Tablets numbering 708,000 were sent to around 2,000 schools in 20 governorates.
The ministry is introducing tablets as part of (...)
Aswan, named the Capital for African Youth by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi during November's second edition of the World Youth Forum, plays host to the Arab African Youth Platform between 16 and 18 March.
The platform will discuss the future of (...)
PRESIDENT Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi met with a number of Arab and European leaders on the sidelines of the two-day Arab League-European Union summit held 24-25 February in Sharm El-Sheikh, reports Reem Leila.
The meetings covered issues of mutual (...)
The summit which brought together leaders of the Arab League, formerly the League of Arab States, and the European Union (EU) in Sharm El-Sheikh this week felt more like a team-building event than a traditional summit. Although the huge conference (...)
The education and health ministries have launched a joint campaign to combat obesity, anaemia and stunting among school students. In a press conference earlier this week Minister of Education Tarek Shawki and the Minister of Health and Population (...)
Egypt's ministries of transport and planning, along with the World Bank, are working out a strategy to upgrade Egypt's railway network which is in dire need of comprehensive renovation.
Deputy Minister of Transport Amr Shaath and advisor to the (...)
Egypt has won the bid to host the headquarters of the African Space Agency's (ASA). The decision was endorsed on 11 February at the African Union (AU) summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Egypt was competing with Nigeria, Ethiopia, Namibia, (...)
On 26 January President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi launched the initiative Nour Al-Haya (Light of Life) to combat the causes of blindness and poor vision among school children.
The initiative targets 10 million primary education students, and two million (...)
Accompanied by his wife, French President Emmanuel Macron spent three days in Egypt, his first visit to the country since being elected president. In addition to meeting with President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and holding a joint press conference Macron (...)
Thirteen buildings housing 82 families in the west Cairo district of Manshiet Nasser have been condemned after geologists confirmed they were in the pathway of potential rockslides. Evacuated families have been moved to furnished housing in (...)
Scenes of elderly homeless people sleeping on pavements and bare footed children running between cars begging for money or food have become familiar.
There are at least 12 million homeless people, among them three million children, in Egypt, (...)
