Six people died and 13 were injured when they fell into a sewage room in Safaneya village in Upper Egypt, a statement by the Minya governorate said on Saturday.
The incident took place when a maintenance company opened the main sewage room to fix (...)
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 (...)
The business community in Egypt was mourning the loss last week of Mohamed Farid Khamis, a business tycoon whose company, Oriental Weavers (OW), is internationally renowned as one of the best machine-woven carpet-producers worldwide.
Many people, (...)
The number of fatalities among Egypt's doctors from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has increased to 116 cases, according to Dr Ibrahim El-Zayat, a council member at the Egyptian Medical Syndicate (EMS).
Over 3,000 doctors have been infected with (...)
Um Ismail, an uneducated widowed mother of three living in an impoverished village in Sohag in Upper Egypt, often has a hard time coping with looking after her elderly bed-ridden mother in her hometown and keeping her job in Cairo to provide food (...)
Um Ismail, an uneducated widowed mother of three living in an impoverished village in Sohag in Upper Egypt, often has a hard time coping with looking after her elderly bed-ridden mother in her hometown and keeping her job in Cairo to provide food (...)
The fourth Thoth Festival opened on 26 October at New Hermopolis, a non-profit development founded by Mervat Abdel-Nasser in the town of Tuna Al-Gebel, the site of the necropolis of Khmun (aka Hermopolis Magna).
This was the western part of the (...)
At least seven Coptic Christians were killed on Friday while over 13 others were injured in a terrorist attack against a bus which was heading to a monastery in Al-Minya governorate in Upper Egypt, according to a statement from the Coptic Orthodox (...)
Egypt's prosecutor-general Nabil Sadek has dispatched a team of prosecutors to the site of the terrorist attack on a bus which killed at least seven Copts and injured 12 near the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Upper Egypt's Minya on (...)
The fourth Thoth Festival opened on 26 October at New Hermopolis, a non-profit development founded by Mervat Abdel-Nasser in the town of Tuna Al-Gebel, the site of the necropolis of Khmun (aka Hermopolis Magna). This was the western part of the (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi urged Egyptians to be patient. “Nobody should be able to deflate us. We have to take things seriously,” he stressed.
During the speech in the inauguration of eight new projects via video conference attended by the (...)
The most interesting stories of tomb robberies are also the most tragic. When the robbers cut out tomb reliefs, or steal objects from archaeological sites, they also steal part of our knowledge of history as well as damaging it.
Tomb robbers have (...)
The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) signed a rehabilitation project contract for the Esna substation with South Korean Sieyuan and Mega alliance at a cost of EGP 91m.
Gamal Abdel Rahim, chairperson of the EETC, said that the (...)
The Housing and Development Bank (HDB) aims to attract new deposits worth EGP 8.82bn and to inject EGP 3.7bn into the bank's loans portfolio by the end of 2018, according to Hassan Ghanem, its managing director. The bank also aims to increase its (...)
Six members of a cell affiliated to the terrorist organization Daesh have been arrested by security forces in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya during a raid on their training camp, a security source said on Sunday.
According to the source, (...)
Three important finds were unearthed last week in Minya and Dakhla Oasis.
At Al-Kamin Al-Sahrawi, south-east of Samalout in the governorate of Minya, a Ministry of Antiquities mission found three rock-hewn Ptolemaic tombs, suggesting the existence (...)
A collection of rock-hewn rocks and the remains of a residential area dating back to the Coptic era were discovered on Thursday beside Al-Nassara necropolis in Al-Bahnasa, Minya, according to a press release published by the Ministry of (...)
Excavation work in Minya has uncovered an ancient settlement that might be a monks' complex, the antiquities ministry have said.
Ayman Ashmawi, the head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Department at the ministry, said that the settlement in the (...)
The Coptic Orthodox Church will hold a memorial service on Monday commemorating the 40th day since the death of the victims in the Minya bus terrorist attack.
Saturday, the Coptic Orthodox Church spokesperson issued a statement on Facebook including (...)
The State Grid Corporation of China has completed the implementation of Borollos-Itay El Baroud electricity lines on Thursday, extending over 105 kilometres.
According to sources at the Ministry of Electricity, the Chinese company has established (...)
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, (...)
Minya (Upper Egypt) – A witness who survived the terrorist attack on the Minya buses on the west desert road of Maghagha, said: Masked men driving four sports utility vehicles ambushed the bus and killed most of the passengers, each with a bullet to (...)
Thousands of Christians, weeping and praying, gathered at a church in this small southern Egyptian village to mourn seven of their community who were among the more than two dozen Christians shot dead by unidentified gunmen earlier Friday.
Their (...)
The number of Christians killed in an armed attack on buses carrying pilgrims in Upper Egypt's Minya governorate has risen to 29, said Egypt's Cabinet in a statement published by MENA late Friday.
Thousands of Christians, weeping and praying, (...)
The Ministry of Interior said Friday that unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic citizens on their way from Beni Suef to Saint Samuel Monastery in El Adwa city, Minya. According to the Ministry of Interior and Minya Governor Essam (...)
