CAIRO: After suffering a brutal sexual assault at the hands of a mob of rowdy Egyptian men in Cario's Tahrir Square, CBS news correspondent Lara Logan says that she now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, with memories of the incident still (...)
CAIRO: Telecom Egypt announced on Tuesday that Mohamed Sayad Al Dessouky, the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer will retire on Thursday, in line with the telecom giant's corporate police which mandates that executives retire at a (...)
CAIRO: Media rights group Reporters Without Borders has issued a statement urging member states of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) agency of the United Nations to protect freedom of information as they begin a plenipotentiary (...)
CAIRO: The head defense lawyer in the trial for former president Hosni Mubarak asserted that Mubarak is still the president of Egypt because he never signed a letter of resignation.
The document, he explained, was signed by then-vice-president (...)
CAIRO: Protesters in Benghazi have stormed the headquarters of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) on Saturday while the Council's chairman Abdul Jalil was still in the building, according to a Reuters report.
The Benghazi protests were (...)
CAIRO: Jailed Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil is set to be released, along with 1,959 other jailed Egyptian civilians, according to a report from Egypt's state-run Al-Ahram newspaper.
Mark Nabil, the brother of Maikel Nabil, confirmed to (...)
In October of 2011, a controversial law was repealed in the state of North Carolina, whereby doctors would be required to offer all women seeking abortions the opportunity to see an ultrasound image of the fetus and hear the fetal heartbeat played (...)
CAIRO: Libyan women's group Women4Libya (W4L) has called for the modification of proposed draft election laws, citing shortcomings in the proposed law, which is set to be published on Sunday by the National Transitional Council's (TNC) Electoral (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the most powerful political faction in post-Mubarak Egypt, has called for the first time for confrontation of Egypt's military and its handling of their transition to democratic, civilian rule in the last year (...)
CAIRO: Yemen's parliament passed a law on Saturday granting Present Ali Abdullah Saleh immunity from prosecution, according to the state's SABA news agency.
The law will be effective immediately, granting immunity to Saleh, but not to his aides, (...)
CAIRO: The United Arab Emirates' Environment and Water Minster, Dr. Rashid Ahmed bin Fahd, said that climate change and the increasing stresses on water resources poses a concern on many levels.
The minister's comment came during the inauguration (...)
CAIRO: As the trial of Egypt's ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak continues, Mubarak's defense team, led by Farid el-Deeb, has claimed that there is “no strong evidence” linking the former leader with a money-making deal in which gas was exported to (...)
CAIRO: Three men, Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin, who were tortured in Syria and Egypt over a decade ago, will find out on Thursday whether the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will hear their case whereby the men are suing the (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's newest start-up group, Flat6Labs, has graduated its first group of start-up tech businesses.
Flat6Labs brings fresh ideas for start-ups though its own three-month mentorship and training process in which they develop their business (...)
CAIRO: Vox Telecom is planning to launch a new low-cost broadband service in South Africa in order to improve access in rural and remote areas.
The service will be launched in June. Vox Telecom expects to sign up nearly 40,000 subscribers in the (...)
CAIRO: Growth of Internet use in Africa has gone beyond that of the global average in the last decade, reaching 2000 percent growth, compared to 480 percent growth globally.
The significant growth represents the increased capacity of IT (...)
CAIRO: Fears in the minority Christian community in Sudan have intensified after the kidnapping of two Catholic priests last Sunday.
Father Joseph Makwey and Father Sylvester Mogga were kidnapped on January 15 by a militia who broke into their (...)
CAIRO: The trial of Egypt's ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak got underway again on Wednesday, with Mubarak's defense team calling the trial “illegal,” shifting blame to Egypt's army for the deaths of protesters from the January 25 uprisings that (...)
CAIRO: Telecom Egypt (TE) announced that it will issue dividends of 30 piasters per share for deferred profits, in a statement on Tuesday.
The dividend comes additional to all regular dividend profits on 2011 earnings.
Shares in Telecom Egypt (...)
CAIRO: Microsoft is helping kick start ten Tunisian start-ups, after the projects won in the company's fourth-annual start-up sponsorship program competition.
Thirty projects competed for the program, launched by the Microsoft Innovation Center (...)
CAIRO: Reporters Without Borders will close its English language website down for 24 hours from 8 am on January 18 in protest of two controversial bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), which are (...)
CAIRO: The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Egypt said that his group is prepared to offer Egypt a $3.2 billion loan set to help the country's widening budget deficit without imposing any conditions.
Masood Ahmed, the (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's interim ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) arrived in Libya on Monday in his first international visit since taking over power from the deposed regime of former President (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's leading presidential hopeful, former Arab League Chief Amr Moussa, announced that in his vision for Egypt's future, the state would maintain its peace treaty with Israel, but in a modified version.
The comments came during an (...)
CAIRO: Colin Bower, a father of two young boys, was able to see his sons in Egypt for the first time in years this past weekend.
Bower and his ex-wife Mirvat El Nady were divorced in 2008, after which Bower was granted full custody of his (...)