The political alliance of Egypt's Support, led by the Mostqabal Watan (Nation's Future) Party, is holding an emergency meeting to discuss its unified list that will run for the upcoming Senate elections.
The meeting aims to reach a final agreement (...)
Ethiopia's Minister of Irrigation and Electricity Seleshi Bekele announced, on Wednesday, that his country has unilaterally started the first phase of filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Bekele added that dam's construction is (...)
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will soon turn into a chronic seasonal disease such as influenza, according to Mohamed Awad Tag El-Din, the President's Adviser on Health and Prevention Affairs.
In a Tuesday evening telephone interview aired on (...)
Egypt's Homeland Defenders Party is considering a return to the Mostqabl Watan electoral alliance and to join the latter's unified list of candidates to run for the Senate.
The move comes after the party announced its earlier withdrawal from the (...)
Electoral committees started, on Saturday, receiving candidate registrations for those wishing to run for Senate elections at 27 primary courts, according to the National Elections Authority (NEC).
The registration process will continue until 18 (...)
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, on Wednesday, that his country has proposed an offer to Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to provide technical assistance regarding the Ethiopian dam crisis.
The Russian proposal came following a meeting of (...)
Egypt will not accept incomprehensive deal on Ethiopian dam that does not take into account the former's concerns or defers solving disputing issues, Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation has stressed.
The ministry's statement came out (...)
Egypt's Parliament approved, during a plenary session on Monday, several amendments regarding the roles of the country's armed and security forces.
During the session, the Parliament approved Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly's decision to amend some (...)
The Agouza Hospital conducted Egypt's ninth case of a caesarean section (C-Section) delivery for a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patient, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday.
The ministry said that both the mother and her newborn are in a (...)
Experts agree that Ethiopian intransigence on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue has caused the current difficulties in negotiations, according to Abla Abdel Latif, Executive Director and Director of Research at the Egyptian Center for (...)
Dozens of protesters have been injured during demonstrations across Sudan, the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD) announced on Wednesday.
The CCSD noted that four of those injured during protests, which took place in the capital Khartoum as (...)
In another chapter of political attempts to settle the regional dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) convened on Monday for a special discussion on the decade-long issue.
The meeting, (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated, on Monday, a number of new national project developments in Cairo, including the newly renovated Baron Empain Palace, the Sphinx International Airport and the New Capital International Airport.
During the (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said his goal is to build a new Egypt that can provide a decent standard of living for its citizens.
Al-Sisi's comments came during the inauguration of several national projects via videoconference on Monday.
The (...)
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold an urgent session, on Monday, to discuss the ongoing dispute between Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
The UNSC meeting follows a series of high-level (...)
Over 650,000 students across Egypt started their school leaving exams (Thanaweyya Amma) on Sunday, amid heightened precautionary measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). However, reports and photographs of overcrowding were (...)
Egypt requested an emergency Arab League meeting on Tuesday to address the recently heightened tensions in Libya.
The meeting was originally scheduled for Monday, but was postponed to allow for the completion of certain technical arrangements to (...)
Baseera – The Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research announced on Tuesday that it estimates about 616,000 Egyptians over the age of 18 have been infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
The figures, based on estimates on the back of a (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has reviewed the current developments in the Libyan crisis during a meeting with the Egypt's Head of the General Intelligence Service Abbas Kamel.
During the meeting, Al-Sisi also followed up on the arrival back in the (...)
The recent round of negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has not led to any breakthrough, due to the Ethiopian side's inflexibility on several technical and legal issues, Egypt's Minister of Water resources and Irrigation (...)
It is difficult to describe the recent meeting to resume negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Damn (GERD) as positive, according to Egypt's Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources.
In a statement on Wednesday, the ministry added that (...)
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations should take place according to a strict schedule to avoid delays, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said during a National Security Council meeting on Tuesday.
Egypt has only just received an (...)
Parliament's committee for constitutional and legislative affairs has approved a draft law on the formation of a Senate, submitted by the majority, pro-government Support Egypt coalition on Monday.
The law was drafted by the leader of the majority (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the Libyan crisis over the phone Monday. Putin stressed his support of the Cairo Declaration as the main forum for a longstanding conclusive peace in Libya
Both (...)
As the world suffers the hardships of COVID-19, a common question everyone asks nowadays is: "When will things return to normal?" Dying to meet up with family and friends again and hug each other without fear of infection, people are frequently (...)
