Italy on Thursday banned entry to people coming from 13 countries that it said presented an excessive rate of COVID-19 infections.
The list compiled by the health ministry comprises Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, (...)
The Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre (CIFET), organised by Egypt's Ministry of Culture, will kick off its 27th edition online on 1 September.
The festival's new management announced that this year's edition will be held online (...)
Iraqi troops are reinforcing their positions along the border with Turkey to prevent Turkish forces from advancing deeper into Iraqi territory after more than two weeks of airstrikes and Turkey's establishment of more than ten posts inside Iraqi (...)
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Qatar exceeded 100,000 and Kuwait surpassed 50,000 on Monday, their health ministries said.
Qatar, which has seen its daily case numbers fall from a peak of 2,355 in late May, added 546 new cases and five (...)
The level of confidence in the Egyptian economy is increasing, thanks to the clear vision of decision makers, according to Atiq Rehman, Head of EMEA Emerging Markets at Citigroup.
The country has been proactive in the measures it has taken to (...)
Gold sales have continued to grow in Egypt for the second week despite high prices, according to Ragab Hamed, Associate Director at Sabayik al Kuwait for precious metals trading.
Prices for the precious metal have recently touched EGP 911,000 per (...)
Total construction output in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is expected to witness a big slump for the rest of this year and the sector is expected to face headwinds in 2021 with a slow recovery, GlobalData, a leading data and (...)
Egypt has condemned attacks carried out on Friday by the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen on Saudi territories.
The Houthi movement had launched four drones loaded with explosives towards Saudi Arabia, but the drones were intercepted and (...)
Banks operating in the Egyptian market started using the International Bank Account Number (IBAN) standard last week, to facilitate the communication and processing of cross-border transactions.
An IBAN is an internationally agreed upon system of (...)
The Gulf states' economies could shrink by 7.6 percent this year in their deepest fall in decades, as the coronavirus and low oil prices weigh in, a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said on Tuesday.
The new projection for the (...)
Kuwait will partially resume commercial flights from August, but does not expect to reach full capacity until a year later, the civil aviation authority said, as its aviation sector gradually recovers from a suspension sparked by the COVID-19 (...)
Tenth of Ramadan for Pharmaceutical Industries and Diagnostic Reagents (Rameda) has received several requests from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Yemen for the purchase of the antiviral Anviziram for treatment of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), (...)
Tenth of Ramadan for Pharmaceutical Industries and Diagnostic Reagents (Rameda) has received several requests from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Yemen for the purchase of the antiviral Anviziram for treatment of coronavirus (COVID-19), according (...)
In an information request directed to Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri on Sunday, independent MP Osama Sharshar asked: “What if Ethiopia refuses to abide by any UN Security Council [UNSC] resolutions on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam [GERD]? What (...)
Egypt welcomed, on Tuesday, the announcement by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen that the country's legitimate government and the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) have agreed on a comprehensive ceasefire.
The two rivals also responded (...)
A total of 1,360 Egyptian expatriates stranded in Kuwait have returned to Egypt on eight flights, Kuwait's Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Monday.
Also on Monday, Haitham Saad El-Din, Spokesperson for Egypt's Ministry of Manpower, said (...)
Many start-ups in the region have risen up to the challenges presented by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Several of these start-ups are the 2019 graduates of the C3 Social Impact Accelerator Programme powered by HSBC. The programme helps (...)
Egypt signed 12 agreements with major international companies for oil and gas exploration in the eastern and western Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Western Desert with a minimum investment of above $1 billion, according to minister of (...)
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) had reached Egypt by mid-February this year. A month later, the country's schools were closed and all activities were stopped as part of the government's preventative measures to combat the virus' spread.
This (...)
Cairo International Airport will receive three exceptional flights, carrying 601 Egyptians stranded in the US, Saudi Arabia, and Ethiopia, on Saturday.
The exceptional flights come as international travel remain suspended at Egyptian airports until (...)
Kuwait's cabinet decided on Thursday to eases curfew hours to start from 7 p.m. until 5 a.m. effective June 21, Kuwait TV citing government spokesman's live conference.
The cabinet also decided to extend working with the first phase in a 5-phases (...)
The Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP) anticipates that over $792bn will be invested in energy projects across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region over the next five years.
The projection was set out in its report, entitled (...)
“If all the images and sounds that I have saved in my mind were to disappear, I would still find a pleasant wind of fresh air that would carry me on a magic carpet one early morning to Heliopolis, while I stand here in a city that is thousands of (...)
A total of 1,981 Egyptians expatriates stranded in Kuwait have been repatriated on 11 flights, Kuwait's Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Sunday.
On Sunday, five flights arrived to Cairo, one to Alexandria, three to Sohag, and two (...)
Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat has signed an agreement with the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD) to complete financing for the Bahr El-Baqar drainage system establishment.
The grant is worth a total of KWD (...)
