Egypt's iron and steel exports in the first eight months of 2021 have jumped 197 percent to $1.097 billion, from $369 million in the same period last year.
In August this year, exports rose to $177 million from $60 million in the same period last (...)
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has affirmed the importance of resuming dialogue on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in a spirit of reaching a compromise, a UN statement said.
Guterres made the remarks in a meeting on (...)
The inequity of COVID-19 vaccine distribution will come into sharper focus Thursday as many of the African countries whose populations have little to no access to the life-saving shots step to the podium to speak at the U.N.'s annual meeting of (...)
Following last week's UN Security Council (UNSC) statement urging Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan to resume negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) under the auspices of the African Union (AU), Christophe Lutundula, the foreign (...)
The UN has been warning of imminent famine in a number of African and Arab countries, unable until present to put together the resources necessary to prevent widespread hunger. This will be the subject of discussion of the UN General Assembly this (...)
In a recorded statement to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi said on Tuesday that Egypt is still "committed to work to reach, in the nearest time possible" a fair, balanced, "and legally binding agreement" on (...)
Tunisia has expressed astonishment at Ethiopia's reaction to the statement issued by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) regarding the long-standing GERD dispute, saying it questioned "Tunisia's sincere and lasting commitment to defending (...)
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Thursday that Egypt has received a vision and plan from the DR Congo, the current chair of the African Union (AU), on the resumption of the AU-sponsored talks regarding the GERD during the coming (...)
Libya claimed a surprise 1-0 victory away to Angola on Tuesday to top Egypt's World Cup qualifying group with maximum six points.
Omar Al Khoja scored what proved to be the winner two minutes before the break as Libya maintained their perfect start (...)
Tunisia maintained their perfect start to the 2022 World Cup qualifiers after beating Zambia 2-0 on Tuesday in Lusaka to go top of Group B with six points.
Veteran striker Wahbi Khazri opened the scoring as early as the ninth minute from the spot (...)
The U.N.'s top climate official urged governments Monday to stop their ``deferral and delay'' tactics and instead embrace rapid, widespread measures to curb and adapt to global warming.
Amid a season of extreme weather and new temperature records, (...)
Egypt's state-run Arab Contractors (AC) on Wednesday said it has won a contract for a 150 km road project in Congo linking two key cities in the country.
The project, worth €110 million ($129.4 million), is funded by the European Development Fund (...)
Egypt received a new shipment of 299,680 AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by the UK through COVAX initiative, according to the World Health Organization.
The shipment is part of a plan to share 80 million Covid-19 vaccines with COVAX by (...)
At a COVID-19 vaccination site in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, tempers flared among those waiting for scarce AstraZeneca jabs, with some accusing others of trying to jump the queue.
Nurses intervened, telling them the accused had been waiting since (...)
Cairo welcomed Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra this week, a visit that demonstrated the strong, decades-old ties between the two countries. The late leader president Gamal Abdel-Nasser supported Algeria's long, just war for independence (...)
Cairo and Khartoum, both still after a diplomatic solution to the crisis over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), this week welcomed an Algerian attempt at mediation intended to bridge the differences between the two capitals and Addis Ababa (...)
Hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots in the next three months with the highest alerts for 'catastrophic' situations in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region, southern Madagascar, Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria, two U.N. agencies (...)
Egypt has signed four new gold exploration contracts with Canadian miner Barrick Gold Corp, Ministry of Oil said in a statement on Monday.
The contracts will see Barrick Gold Corp exploring for gold for the first time in Egypt across 19 new blocks (...)
Egypt's Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel-Ati returned home from Kinshasa on Saturday, where he had a successful official visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
During his visit, Abdel-Ati inaugurated the Rain and (...)
Egypt's Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel-Ati arrived on Thursday in Kinshasa to take part in the inauguration of a weather warning centre and to hold talks with Congolese officials on means of developing cooperation between both African countries (...)
Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia should agree on a time frame to reach a deal on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Regional Spokesman for the US State Department Samuel Werberg said.
During a phone-in with Sada El-Balad satellite channel on (...)
There is a river that has gently flowed for 30 million years, six times older than previously thought.
It could have been just another river, on the face of the earth, like the hundreds of thousands flowing across the globe. No one has really (...)
Zamalek coach Patrice Carteron has revealed his interest in signing Pyramids FC winger Ramadan Sobhi, confirming he is working with the club's management to build up a brilliant squad that can win all trophies.
Reports in the Egyptian media claimed (...)
Senegal's President Macky Sall said finding a radical solution to the GERD crisis between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia will be on top of the African Union's (AU) priorities in 2022 during his country's presidency of the grouping.
At a meeting with (...)
Your Excellency Ambassador Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations and President of the U.N. Security Council
Distinguished Representatives of the Member States of the United Nations Security Council,
Dear Sister (...)
