Egypt has appointed its veteran economist Mahmoud Mohieldin, executive director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as the country's UN Climate Change High-Level Champion at UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP27).
Egypt is hosting COP27 (...)
A Moroccan party run by a billionaire considered close to the monarchy won the most seats in legislative elections, while the Islamist party that has been in power for a decade suffered a stinging defeat, according to results announced Thursday. (...)
The first round of the Saudi Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) will finally take place in the second week of December. Originally scheduled for March 2020, it was postponed until 11 November 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. It has now (...)
A Moroccan landscape painted by Winston Churchill and owned by Angelina Jolie sold at auction on Monday for more than $11.5 million, smashing the previous record for a work by Britain's World War II leader.
“Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” sold at (...)
Egyptian side Ismaily conceded a 3-0 defeat against Moroccan Champions Raja on Monday at Marrakech to exit the Arab Champions Cup semi-final following their 1-0 first leg home win.
After a dull first half, Raja scored in quick succession as Mohsine (...)
“I feel that I'm discriminated against because of the family name on my CV, so I have decided to remove it.”
These were the words of one 22-year-old woman living in Nice in France, who said that she had been facing challenges finding a job due to (...)
With air and sea borders closed for months and eight cities barring people from entering or leaving, Morocco has been pulling out the stops to stanch the spread of coronavirus.
Still, the kingdom on the Atlantic coast, a magnet for tourists in (...)
يستعد كريستيانو رونالدو نجم يوفنتوس الإيطالى، لإفتتاح أول فندق له في مدينة "مراكش"المغربية، في إطار سلسلة الفنادق الفخمة التي يمتلكها لاعب ريال مدريد السابق، كشفت الصفحة الرسمية للفندق " M Avenue Marrakech"، إنه من المقرر إفتتاح الفندق الذى يملكة (...)
Morocco will stop people entering and leaving some of its biggest cities from midnight to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases, the interior and health Ministries said on Sunday.
The cities to be locked down include the economic powerhouse of (...)
Egypt's Planning Minister Hala El-Said said Upper Egypt will see government investments of 47 billion Egyptian pounds ($2.9 billion) in the the financial year 2020/2021 budget that constitutes 25 percent of the total distributed government (...)
Egypt's Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala El-Said said that the governorates of Upper Egypt will see government investments amounting to EGP 47 billion in the FY20-2021 budget, which constitutes 25 percent of the total distributed (...)
Tribeca Enterprises joined hands with YouTube in preparing for a major online film festival which will take place between 29 May and 7 June, screening films online for free.
Titled 'We Are One: A Global Film Festival', the initiative brings together (...)
The Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF, 6-12 March) became the first major film festival to face coronavirus preventative measures when, on its fourth day, 9 March, Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli suspended all large gatherings. The festival promptly (...)
The fourth Cairo Cinema Days kicked off on Wednesday with Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala's You Will Die At Twenty. The annual event, run by Zawya arthouse cinema since 2017, is dedicated to showcasing the latest award-winning and (...)
Following months of anticipation, the film Ras El-Sana (New Year's Eve) directed by Mohamed Ahmed Sakr will finally be released across Egyptian cinemas on 5 February.
The news was announced by Mohamed Hefzy, who is the film's scriptwriter and one of (...)
Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport topped the list of the fastest-growing major airports in Africa by capacity, a new study by Routesonline has found, as airlines continue to return to the Egyptian Red Sea resort.
The latest figures (...)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is boosting its outreach in Morocco through the inauguration of its third office in the city of Agadir, the bank announced on Tuesday.
The new office will cover the regions of Souss-Massa (...)
Qualifying for the Olympic Games is the dream of any athlete. Tomorrow, Friday 22 November at Cairo International Stadium, three young national football teams will see their dreams come true after they book their tickets to Japan where they will (...)
The Egyptian ambassador to Morocco, Ashraf Ibrahim, said on Monday that Egypt is working to transport the body of Egyptian atomic scientist Abu Bakr Ramadan to Cairo.
Ramadan recently died after suffering from an emergency health condition in his (...)
Egypt's Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday that it is following-up with its embassy in Morocco the procedures to bring back the body of the nuclear researcher, Abu Bakr Abdel Moneim Ramadan, to Egypt after his sudden death in Marrakech.
In a (...)
Steve Mounie scored a hat-trick as Benin completed their African Cup of Nations preparations with a 3-1 win over fellow finalists Mauritania on Tuesday but despite the confidence-boosting victory coach Michel Dussuyer is keeping expectations (...)
THIS week saw remarkable victories in two individual sports, swimming and judo. In swimming, Egypt's Farida Osman continued her extraordinary assault on the country's record books after she claimed a gold and a bronze medal at the TYR Pro Swim (...)
Although Brexit and the Venezuelan crisis, both seemingly insurmountable problems, dominate the headlines, the world has not stopped turning, and other issues require our attention in a more structural manner.
For example, in Brussels we recently (...)
Although Brexit and the Venezuelan crisis, both seemingly insurmountable problems, dominate the headlines, the world has not stopped turning, and other issues require our attention in a more structural manner.
For example, in Brussels we recently (...)
