A 30-member parliamentary delegation visited Egypt's governorate of North Sinai on Wednesday and Thursday to review the security situation there.
The delegation, including members of parliament's Defence and National Security Committee and its head (...)
نشرت الفنانة السورية نسرين طافش، فيديو لها قبل ذهابها إلى حفل افتتاح الدورة ال 41 من مهرجان القاهرة السينمائي، والذي من المقرر أن ينطلق، بعد قليل، من دار الأوبرا المصرية.
وتظهر نسرين في الفيديو، وهي رفقة الكوافير الخاص بها، وتقوم باختيار قصة شعرها (...)
The five permanent members of the Security Council plus Egypt, the UAE, Italy, Turkey, Algeria and Tunisia met in Berlin Wednesday in the framework of preparations for the international conference on Libya that UN Special Envoy Ghassan Salamé called (...)
Investments would be a stabilising factor for employment and energy supplies across Africa, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi told attendees of the G20-Initiative Compact with Africa (CwA) summit in Berlin on Tuesday.
Al-Sisi said this positive impact (...)
Egypt has spent around $60 billion on linking its electricity sector to other countries and continents, extending links into Africa, Asia, and Europe, President Abdel–Fattah El-Sisi has said.
In a speech during the G20 Compact with Africa meetings (...)
Egypt's exports to African Union (AU) countries rose 27.4 percent to $4.736 billion in 2018 from $3.716 billion in 2017, Egypt's state-owned statistics agency CAPMAS said on Monday.
The majority of exports were concentrated in 10 African countries, (...)
Egypt's trade with states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) hit $2.951 billion in 2018, with an increase of 24 percent compared to 2017, according to Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics.
According to (...)
Egypt has spent around $60 billion on linking its electricity sector to other countries and continents, extending links into Africa, Asia, and Europe, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has said.
In a speech during the G20 Compact with Africa meetings (...)
A WEST Cairo military criminal court on Sunday sentenced Libyan militant Abdel-Rehim Al-Mesmari to death and other defendants to heavy jail terms for their part in a deadly attack on security forces in Bahariya Oasis, writes Ahmed Eleiba.
A WEST (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi headed on Sunday to Berlin on Sunday to attend the G20 Compact with Africa meetings, an initiative which aims to boost economic cooperation between Africa and G20 member states via joint projects that (...)
The International Theatre Without Fund Festival (TWFF) opened its 10th edition on Sunday at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's grand hall with a short documentary and a music performance.
"The philosophy of the festival is imagination, not money," said (...)
(All times GMT+2)
Sunday 17 November
15:00 South Africa vs. Sudan (Group C)
15:00 Chad vs. Mali (Group A)
15:00 Eswatini vs. Senegal (Group I)
15:00 Benin vs. Sierra Leone (Group L)
15:00 Uganda vs. Malawi (Group B)
15:00 South Sudan vs. Burkina (...)
Tunisia kicked off their African Cup of Nations qualifying campaign with an impressive 4-1 home victory over Libya while Morocco were held to a surprise goalless draw at home to Mauritania on Friday.
Wahbi Khazri put Tunisia ahead in the 33rd minute (...)
Egypt President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi urged in a call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel an end to foreign intervention in Libyan affairs, an Egyptian Presidency statement read.
The presidency said Merkel called El-Sisi early Friday to discuss (...)
The big buzz nowadays is the announcement of the Nobel Prize Winners, an honoured tradition for the highest standard of achievement, for over a century.
While the monetary reward is significant, almost $1 million, it is the prestige and honour that (...)
(All times GMT+2)
Wednesday 13 November
15:00 Malawi v South Sudan (Group B)
15:00 Central African Republic v Burundi (Group E)
18:00 Namibia v Chad (Group A)
18:00 Cameroon v Cape Verde (Group F)
18:00 Guinea-Bissau v Eswatini (Group I)
18:00 (...)
The West celebrated 9 November the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that was a turning point in the post-World War II era. The division of Europe between East and West came to an end, and two years later the former Soviet (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu agreed on the importance of adhering to political solutions to different crises in the region, during a meeting in Cairo.
In an official statement, presidential (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed in Cairo on Tuesday the latest developments in the Libyan situation with the United Nations Envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame.
Egypt's FM spokesperson Ahmed Hafez said that Shoukry affirmed Egypt's stance (...)
Egypt has always relied heavily on oil and gas as energy sources, and until a few years ago it has also mainly depended on power plants fuelled by oil and coal, with no companies working on generating renewable energy and an absence of solar power (...)
Libya has been engaged in an internal political conflict for a few years now and since 2011. The international community has looked at several ways to intervene, using the tools of the United Nations mission to the country and neighbouring countries (...)
On her first overseas tour since her appointment in August 2019, Stevie Spring, new chair of the British Council (BC), visited Cairo for two days and visited projects supported by BC programmes.
Spring recently joined the BC to manage the cultural (...)
Egypt's House of Representatives, the country's parliament, approved on Monday a presidential decree extending the nationwide state of emergency for a further three months, beginning at 1am on 27 October.
The approval came one day after Prime (...)
A private aid group says an Italian offshore supply ship has saved some 200 migrants in waters off Libya.
Alarm Phone, a charity hotline for refugees in distress in the Mediterranean Sea, says the Asso Trenta has the migrants aboard after rescue (...)
A humanitarian rescue ship with 88 migrants aboard says it has entered Italian waters off Sicily to shelter from strong wind and waves.
Sea-Eye said its vessel Alan Kurdi was awaiting assignment of a safe port by Italy on Friday, a week after its (...)
