Egypt has three football clubs participating in the semi-finals of Africa's two biggest team championships. Powerhouses Ahly and Zamalek are taking part in the Champions League whereas Pyramids are in the second tier Confederation Cup.
After several (...)
Egyptian Minister of Culture Ines Abdel-Dayem received today the certificate confirming the official registration of the file "The Palm: Knowledge, Skills, Traditions, Practices" on the Representative List of Human Heritage at UNESCO.
Abdel-Dayem (...)
Thousands of asylum-seekers have spent a fourth night sleeping in the open on the Greek island of Lesbos, after successive fires destroyed a notoriously overcrowded migrant and refugee camp during a coronavirus lockdown.
Officials have said the (...)
France has never been absent from the Middle East theatre since the Napoleonic campaigns and the ill-fated invasion of Egypt and Syria by France between 1798 and 1801. For the two centuries that have followed France has remained a major player (...)
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt the annexation of occupied land sought by the Palestinians for their future state.
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A boat carrying around 40 migrants and refugees has sunk off the coast of Mauritania, leaving only one survivor, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Thursday.
The perilous sea passage from West Africa to the Canary Islands was once a (...)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects Egypt to remain economic strong, and attain positive growth this year, according to Jihad Azour, Director of the fund's Middle East and Central Asia Department (MCD).
The IMF forecast comes despite the (...)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has further downgraded its projections for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's economic growth to -5.7% in 2020 due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
This represents a 2.4 percentage (...)
The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) will on 2 July announce the exact date when the country's most popular sport resumes. The 18-team league has been suspended, just like all other sports, since 21 March following the outbreak of the (...)
International and regional powers agreed at talks on Tuesday to intensify a military campaign against Islamist militants in the West African Sahel region, with French President Emmanuel Macron saying victory over the jihadists was within (...)
Not surprisingly, terrorist organisations seized on the Covid-19 crisis to ratchet up their hate speech. The pandemic was “heaven sent” to take revenge against violators of God's law and inflict on them the worst punishment for their many sins, said (...)
In celebration of World Environment Day, which fell on 5 June, a 10-day campaign for the Mediterranean will kick off on 11 June, featuring numerous activities related to environmental issues, and opportunities for participation.
Launched in Egypt (...)
To prevent Ethiopia from completing construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and begin operations without first reaching an agreement with Egypt and Sudan, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri has appealed to the UN Security Council to (...)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is considering cutting the period of its recent emergency financial assistance to Egypt Rapid Financing Instrument to under four years, according to Jihad Azour, Director of the IMF's Middle East and Central (...)
Most countries across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan region (MENAP), including Egypt, have taken proactive measures against the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The statement was made in the Middle East and Central Asia Regional Economic (...)
With the spread of the coronavirus globally, the most important advice given by the World Health Organization (WHO) to minimise risk of infection is to follow good personal hygiene habits, like washing hands constantly, which we may find boring, but (...)
Almost a month after walking out of US-brokered tripartite negotiations, Addis Ababa is working on another proposal for an agreement it said it will deliver to Egypt and Sudan soon.
“We won't subscribe to an agreement just because the US and the (...)
The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) joined the Africa Economic Zones Organization (AEZO) in a bid to strengthen cooperation with African and international organisations.
SCZone Chairperson Yehia Zaki said in a Sunday statement that the authority (...)
Angel Yeast, a major Chinese company working in the manufacturing of dry yeast and extracts, aims to export 35,000 tonnes of yeast, an increase of 16% compared to last year.
Ahmed Azazy, head of sales at Angel Yeast Egypt, said that the company (...)
Nouna Juices and Concentrates Company is pumping investments estimated at EGP 26m this year, in partnership with investors from abroad, to open a new factory for producing tomato paste in the industrial zone of Qena.
Waleed Fathy, general director (...)
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile River meant to turn Addis Ababa into Africa's biggest power exporter, but Egypt fears the dam, which is under construction near Ethiopia's border with Sudan, would significantly diminish its (...)
Beyti Egypt aims to take its exports in 2020 to $25m, compared to about $21m in 2019, while it recorded EGP 3.5bn in total sales in 2019, compared to EGP 2.9bn in 2018.
Zakaria Yassin, manager of export at Beyti, said that the company exports its (...)
A delegation from the Egyptian foreign ministry led by Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab Affairs Yasser Othman paid visits to Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania.
During their meetings with the foreign ministers of the three North African countries, (...)
Egypt Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry headed on Tuesday to Bujumburathe, the capital of Burundi, at the beginning of hisAfrican tour that includes South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda, Congo, South Sudan, and Niger, according to a Monday statement.
He will (...)
Several African countries on Sunday closed borders, canceled flights and imposed strict entry and quarantine requirements to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, which has a foothold in 26 nations on the continent as cases keep rising.
“The (...)
