Africa became the region hardest hit by terrorism in the first half of 2021 as the Islamic State and al-Qaida extremist groups and their affiliates spread their influence, boasting gains in supporters and territory and inflicting the greatest (...)
Ahmed Youssef, CEO of the Egyptian Tourism Promotion Board (ETPB) at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, has participated in an international summit on the recovery of tourism, held in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Youssef attended the event on (...)
Kenya was forced to drop two runners from its Olympic team just over a week before the Tokyo Games because they haven't taken the required number of out-of-competition doping tests, an official said on Thursday.
That has given 1,500-meter world (...)
Happy Letsitsa hasn't paid off the money he borrowed to survive a 2019 drought that ravaged his maize and sunflower farm in the South African province of Free State.
He has no drought insurance. If rains fail again, they could spell the end of his (...)
Egypt has accepted the UK's offer to develop the former's electricity grid by integrating the variable renewable energy needed to allow the electrification of the country's transportation sector.
Egypt has already started working towards a greener (...)
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 (...)
Egyptian Parliament Speaker Hanafy Gebaly stated on Sunday that Egypt has never stood against its brothers' right to development, however, it rejects any infringement of its Nile water rights.
Gebaly was referring to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance (...)
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 (...)
Statement By H.E. Sameh Shoukry, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt before the United Nations Security Council session on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Excellency Ambassador Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France to (...)
Egypt's Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea has announced that a customs duty exemption on Egyptian exports to Kenya will continue for a period of a year starting from July.
Gamea said that this exemption comes as part of the comprehensive (...)
The Africa Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Challenge has been officially launched in Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, and Tunisia.
The challenge is currently being prepared to start in Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Ghana (...)
Last Saturday, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated the 3 July naval base in Gargoub equidistant from the border with Libya and the Mohamed Naguib military base, opened in July 2018 west of Alexandria. The 3 July naval base, now the largest (...)
Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel-Ati said on Tuesday that Egypt was not against development projects in Ethiopia or any Nile basin countries, but those projects should be implemented within the framework of international law and take into (...)
EFG Hermes Kenya, part of Egyptian investment bank EFG Hermes Group, has launched on Monday its online equity-trading platform, EFG Hermes One, to offer retail investors seamless and convenient stock trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (...)
EFG Hermes Kenya launched, on Monday, its online equity-trading platform, EFG Hermes One, which will see the Firm offer retail investors seamless and convenient stock trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
The online trading platform was (...)
The Arab League is keen on ensuring that Egypt and Sudan resorting to the UN Security Council over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue does not turn into a dispute between Arab and African sides, its ambassador to the UN (...)
Kuwait forward Bader Al Mutawa made his 185th international appearance on Friday to overtake ex-Egypt skipper Ahmed Hassan as the world's most-capped player.
Al Mutawa, 36, took part in Kuwait's clash against Bahrain in the FIFA Arab Cup qualifiers (...)
Ethiopia's U.N. ambassador said Tuesday that Eritrean troops who have been fighting with his country's forces in a war against the Tigray region's fugitive leaders ``will definitely leave soon,'' a move that would be welcomed by many including the (...)
Due to a range of demographic, economic and political factors, Ethiopia is one of the most influential actors in the Horn of Africa region, which makes Ethiopian policy a key determinant of the regional interplay. Since Abiy Ahmed came to power as (...)
On 6 June, CEO of the Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), Hani Salem Sonbol paid a five-day official visit to Egypt, his first since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
During his stay, Sonbol (...)
Egypt's Ministry of International Cooperation announced, in 2020, the clear allocation of its financing development portfolio, which encompasses 377 projects amounting to $25bn.
The financing is to ensure the spread of projects across the UN's 17 (...)
The historic visit by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to Djibouti is the decisive step in tightening the screws on Ethiopia.
It was the first official visit of an Egyptian president in over 40 years. During the visit, the two sides discussed (...)
In the global race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the pack.
In fact, it has barely gotten out of the starting blocks.
In South Africa, which has the continent's most robust economy and its biggest (...)
The US Biden administration has recently made a number of moves in a bid to address the tripartite crisis between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia over the latter's controversial building of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue (...)
As Cairo and Khartoum continued to push for a legally binding agreement regulating the operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Addis Ababa disclosed that this year's filling of the reservoir will be much less than it had previously, (...)
