The education and health ministries have launched a joint campaign to combat obesity, anaemia and stunting among school students. In a press conference earlier this week Minister of Education Tarek Shawki and the Minister of Health and Population (...)
Egypt's current spell of cool weather is expected to hold out into next week, forecasters say, with temperatures dropping to a low of 7 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country.
Rain is forecast in cities on the Mediterranean and some parts of (...)
Egypt's tourism is in constant improvement with a growing number of tourists from Western, Arab and Asian states, expecting more Chinese visitors in the coming seasons, Egyptian Tourism Minister Rania el Mashat said.
"We had a leap in tourism in (...)
Long after their deaths, pharaohs still fascinate the world with their treasures and legacy. Minister of Antiquities Khaled Anany announced on Saturday the discovery of a number of burial chambers at Tuna el Gebel's archaeological site in Minya (...)
A criminal court in Minya has said that it is seeking the grand mufti's opinion on a preliminary death sentence for a police officer who was convicted of killing a Christian man and his son last December.
In an official statement in December, the (...)
Trial operations of the newly inaugurated Sphinx International Airport (SIA) began this week with a number of domestic flights. International flights are scheduled to start in the near future.
Younis Al-Masry, the minister of civil aviation, and (...)
Amendments of the existing non-governmental organisations (NGOs) Law will be issued by the end of March, said the Head of General Union of NGOs, Talaat Abdel Qawi, in press statements on Tuesday.
Abdel Qawi said that the committee which is assigned (...)
The Upper Egyptian city of Minya was in the limelight last weekend, when Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany, Minister of Tourism Rania Al-Mashat, and Governor of Minya Kassem Hussein, as well as ambassadors and cultural attachés from Malta, (...)
During 2018, Egypt observed a decline in terrorist attacks compared to the last four years, as recent researches showed, however the danger is still ever present, as militant groups in North Sinai are updating their tactics and targets to seize (...)
Scenes of elderly homeless people sleeping on pavements and bare footed children running between cars begging for money or food have become familiar.
There are at least 12 million homeless people, among them three million children, in Egypt, (...)
On New Year's Eve, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi launched the Decent Life Initiative on his official social media accounts, whereby under his auspices ministries, community associations and non-governmental organisations alike are to focus on (...)
Egypt's Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC), an affiliate body to the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), announced a new list of six innovative tech-fueled startups that won the 21st round of its Start (...)
Decree 602/2018, issued by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi on 30 December, establishes a Supreme Council to Combat Sectarian Strife.
According to the official gazette, the council will be mandated to formulate a general strategy to prevent and (...)
Scenes of elderly homeless people sleeping on pavements and bare footed children running between cars begging for money or food have become familiar.
There are at least 12 million homeless people, among them three million children, in Egypt, (...)
Yesterday marked the opening of the 50th Cairo International Book Fair (23 January-5 February). To celebrate its Golden Jubilee, the Book Fair relocated from its Nasr City fairgrounds, an accessible space with easy Metro connections, to the remote (...)
Growing up as a Muslim in Shubra in northern Cairo, a district with one of the largest concentrations of Egyptian Copts, and going to a convent school where the majority of students were Christians meant that I grew up in a diverse environment. (...)
On New Year's Eve, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi launched the Decent Life Initiative on his official social media accounts, whereby under his auspices ministries, community associations and non-governmental organisations alike are to focus on (...)
The House of Representatives approved a three-month extension of the nationwide state of emergency on 13 January.
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi first imposed a state of emergency in April 2017, following bombings at two churches in which 47 people (...)
In the latest in a long string of attacks in Minya a crowd of extremists this week attacked a Coptic prayer house which they claimed was an unlicensed church in Zaafarana village and expelled the priest.
Pope Tawadros II, patriarch of the See of St (...)
Decree 602/2018, issued by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi on 30 December, establishes a Supreme Council to Combat Sectarian Strife. According to the official gazette, the council will be mandated to formulate a general strategy to prevent and (...)
Last week saw the launch of “Decent Life”, an initiative by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi that hopes to provide better living conditions for the needy in 2019.
“As I looked at last year to search for the real hero of our nation, I found that the (...)
The term the “War on Terrorism” was coined on 11 September 2001 when the horrendous attacks on New York and Washington gave rise to a new era of asymmetrical warfare between the world's governments and terrorist groups.
The term still represents a (...)
Last week saw the launch of “Decent Life”, an initiative by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi that hopes to provide better living conditions for the needy in 2019.
“As I looked at last year to search for the real hero of our nation, I found that the (...)
Mai Abdullah is a young artist who always had passion towards Egypt's iconic stars never which she never defied to bring to light until it found its way to the public through some of her most unique sculptures being displayed at her first solo (...)
The Board of the General Authority for Investment and free zones (GAFI) held a meeting topped by the Minister of Investment and International Cooperation (MIIC), Sahar Nasr, in presence of GAFI's CEO, Mohsen Adel, to discuss the establishment of 19 (...)
