Egypt embarked on a host of national projects some seven years ago to lay out the new infrastructure required for a modern state. The efforts started with an extensive network of roads to connect all the country's cities with each other, followed by (...)
This follows Alstom's successful installation and commissioning of its SIL 4 signaling Electronic Interlocking SYSTEM (IXL solution-SmartLock 400 GP). Egypt's Minister of Transport Kamel El-Wazir attended the pre-dynamic tests on 3 April.
The system (...)
As the sun warmed the air of the Minya governorate last weekend, hundreds of media representatives and officials gathered to witness the announcement of the first discovery of 2020 at the Al-Ghoreifa site and visit the Gabal Al-Teir Monastery and (...)
Al Ahly Exchange Company, owned by the National Bank of Egypt (NBE), has raised the number of branches to seven in Cairo, Minya, and Mansoura.
Hisham Okasha, chairperson of the board of directors of the NBE, recently opened the new branch in (...)
MINYA, Upper Egypt, July 6, 2018 (MENA) – Thirteen people were killed and six others injured in a road accident in Beni Mazar town, Minya governorate, Upper Egypt, said spokesman for the Ministry of health Khaled Megahed.
The spokesman added that 13 (...)
Egypt's First Deputy Housing Minister said Sunday the ministry is carrying out drinking water and sewage stations projects in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya, at costs of 768 million Egyptian pounds ($43.2 million).
Randa El Menshawy added (...)
A church in Minya was re-opened on Saturday after being renovated. The church in the village of Beni Mazar was among others ravaged in sectarian violence that erupted following the anti-Mohamed Morsi uprising and post-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in (...)
Minya (Upper Egypt)- The Archbishop of Maghagha and Adwa in Minya, Father Agathon said that Adwa incident is a heinous crime that does not only target Copts but rather, the Egyptian state as a whole.
During a phone call with the Coptic channel, (...)
It's as you climb down into your first cave that you realize that the desert has captured your imagination. Luckily for us, one of the rarest caves in the world is only a two-hour drive from Cairo.
We never really hear that much about caves in (...)
Minya (Southern Egypt) - A military court in Upper Egypt sentenced on Tuesday 111 fugitive loyalists of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group to 25 years in jail over committing acts of violence and riot following the overthrow of former Islamist (...)
On Coptic Christmas Eve on 6 January, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi delivered two messages to terrorist groups during his visit to the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral. He emphasised that the churches were the houses of God and he congratulated Egypt's (...)
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi arrived on Thursday 15/12/2016 at the venue of a celebration marking the inauguration of Rod el Farag-Dhabaa axis.
National road network projects - carried out by several ministries - will also be inaugurated (...)
Four Coptic teenagers, who were recently released after being handed five-year prison sentences on charges of contempt of Islam, arrived in Switzerland to seek asylum on Monday evening, according to their lawyer Ehab Ramzy.
Ramzy told Daily News (...)
The Cairo Criminal Court's terrorism panel resumed Sunday the trial of more than a hundred defendants in the case publicly known as the ‘Kerdasa police killing'.
In February 2015, the Giza Criminal Court had sentenced 183 out of 188 defendants to (...)
Assiut Military Court postponed Sunday trial of 335 elements linked to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood (MB) over terror-related charges to May 15, Al-Bawaba News reported.
Court's ruling was based on the necessity to conclude testimonial (...)
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemned Thursday the sentencing of four Coptic minors in Minya on charges of "defamation and insulting Islam", describing the verdict as "part of a vicious assault on civil liberties".
The Minya (...)
A Minya juvenile court sentenced Thursday four minors to be imprisoned for five years on charges of contempt of Islam. The four Coptic minors were charged with "mocking Islamic prayer rituals" and publishing a video "which disrupts public order", (...)
By Mohamed Derwish and Rehab Saber
The Ministry of Transportation has completed three roads spanning a total length of 700 km, with the remaining proposed roads at 70% completion. Meanwhile, the completion rate of various roads being constructed by (...)
Prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat has dismissed charges against 228 alleged supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, accused of violent acts in August last year, because of a lack of evidence, reported Al-Ahram's Arabic website.
The accused (...)
39th Regional Theatre Festival of the Cultural Palaces Organisation, Balloon Theatre, Manf Hall, the theatre of the Supreme Council of Youth and Sport, 1-10 February, 2014.
Ever since El-Samer theatre in Agouza was pulled nearly 20 years ago to make (...)
The fire burned all night long. It was only after desperate town residents borrowed the keys to a firetruck that they were able to quell the blaze. By then, the evangelical church was all but destroyed.
It was one of more than 60 churches that have (...)
Christian leaders in Europe, the US and Africa are to take action to help protect Egypt's churches from terrorist attacks by the Muslim Brotherhood, according to statements made by figures in the Egyptian Coptic Church. According to reports, the (...)
Dear Madam,
I am writing to you from a country in which the black axe of destruction and the raging flames of hatred are demolishing and consuming all Egyptian heritage within reach. This heritage is not Egypt's alone. It is human heritage and its (...)
From 2 to 11 this month (May 2013) the Cultural Palaces Organisation held its 22nd Annual Theatre Clubs Festival at El-Samer space (a makeshift marquee theatre pitched on the derelict site of the demolished El-Samer theatre), bringing to Cairo what (...)
Supreme Administrative Court in Egypt headed by counselor Madgy El Agaty adjourned till next Sunday the consideration of challenging the people's assembly elections annulment in Al Menia's individual second round “Dr. Saad Al Katatni Round". This is (...)