Campaigning for the House of Representatives election will end on Sunday 18 October, three days before expatriate Egyptians go to the polls on 21 October, and six before the polls open for Egyptians at home.
The National Election Authority (NEA) has (...)
Political parties began preparations this week for the first stage of parliamentary elections, scheduled to be held between 21 October and 30 November. The National Election Authority (NEA) said campaigning will begin on 5 October and run until 18 (...)
Groups of Egyptians gathered in public squares around the country on Friday to take part in a celebration of the anniversary of the 6 October war, as well as to show support for President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and the government, after a call to do (...)
The head of Egypt's National Elections Authority (NEA) Lasheen Ibrahim announced on Wednesday the results of the run-offs for Egypt's Senate elections, which saw 52 candidates competing for 26 seats.
During a press conference, Ibrahim said there (...)
The government reacted quickly this week after MPs and the media demanded a reduction in fines for building code violations and a two-month extension to the 30 September deadline set for owners to regularise the status of their buildings.
On 12 (...)
The National Elections Authority (NEA) blindsided many commentators when it announced on 10 September that the door for candidate registration will open as early as 17 September, and remain so until 26 September. The two-stage poll will then kick (...)
Preparations for Egypt's parliamentary elections will shift into high gear this week, with hopeful candidates beginning on Saturday to take the required medical tests and check-ups in line with the National Elections Authority's (NEA) rules.
A (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ratified on Monday a law on redrawing electoral constituencies that was passed by the parliament in August.
According to the law, there will be 143 electoral constituencies for the individual candidate system (...)
The National Election Authority (NEA) has announced that 52 nominees will battle for 26 seats in the run-off round of the Senate elections. The polls will be held on 6 and 7 September for Egyptians abroad, and 8 and 9 September for resident (...)
The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) has granted 1.1 billion Egyptian pounds to 55,000 small- and micro-projects in Qena governorate between July 2014 and June 2020.
The projects provided 2.6m job opportunities for (...)
Before adjourning for the summer recess parliament approved on Monday a long-awaited law redrawing electoral districts.
The law, drafted by the majority Support Egypt coalition, is the last law needed to pave the way for holding House of (...)
New Qena Development Agency, affiliated to Egypt's New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA), has launched an insurance policy tender to cover properties against fire.
The one-year term policy will see coverage of risks that may occur to the agency's (...)
Egypt's Local Development Minister said on Friday the ministry's Local Development Fund approved in July loans worth 2.6 million Egyptian pounds ($162,638) to finance 297 small and micro-sized projects in 13 governorates.
The main target of the (...)
The number of beneficiaries of the Local Development Programme for Upper Egypt, primarily funded by the World Bank, reached 5 million citizens out of 8 million others.
There are 4,000 companies also benefited from the programme that aims to attract (...)
Egypt has adopted a plan to expand the use of natural gas by road vehicles in a bid to reduce fuel imports, lower emissions to protect the environment, and make use of the country's own massive natural gas production.
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi (...)
Egypt's Tourism and Antiquities Police have arrested four thieves undertaking undercover excavation work in an area near to Nag Hammadi in Qena governorate.
The arrests led to the discovering of monuments attributed to the reign of Ptolemy IV, the (...)
Egypt's state-run construction firm Moukhtar Ibrahim plans to finalise delivering three fully-fledged infrastructure projects in a bunch of governorates within the current year, according to a source.
The projects will include a number of sanitation (...)
Al-Kahila gallery is back with “Summer Colours”, a group show featuring among others Sayed Saadeddin, Ayyad Alnimer, Mohamed Rabie, Mohamed Dmarawey, Britt Botrous Ghali and Dina Targram.
Sayed Saad El Din was born in Qena, Upper Egypt, and his art (...)
Throughout the 10 years since its establishment, the Egypt Network for Integrated Development (ENID), a NGO, has had to deal with many challenges in Upper Egypt, the area where it is working.
Tackling poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment, its usual (...)
The unjustified population growth in Egypt exhausts state development efforts and deprives the citizen of benefiting of these efforts, Minister of Local Development Mahmoud Shaarawy has stressed.
The minister added that the increase in population (...)
An Upper Egypt criminal court handed on Saturday a 15-year imprisonment sentence to a man for "sexually assaulting" a woman in the conservative governorate of Qena.
The case dates back to February 2020 when the 22-year-old woman filed a complaint (...)
A number of 399 investors has reserved 193 industrial lands as part of the third phase of the industrial investment map with a reservation rate of 30 percent reported so far.
Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli on Friday was briefed on the status of (...)
A consortium of Egyptian electrical equipment manufacturers will compete in mid-July for two international tenders, worth EGP 1bn, to implement high and ultra-high voltage transmission lines in Morocco.
Kamal Koraytem, Chairperson of the High Dam (...)
The Ministry of Education's central operations room said, on Thursday, it detected eight cases of cheating using mobile phones on the fourth day of Thanaweyya Amma (final secondary school) exams.
The cases of cheating were spotted at exam committees (...)
Minister of Health Hala Zayed and Minister of Local Development Mahmoud Shaarawy have held discussions on boosting Egypt's health facilities and increasing their efficiency.
The discussions were held as Egypt continues its fight against the novel (...)
