The African Development Bank (AfDB) announced the results achieved by Egypt during the last period in its report entitled ‘Building Partnerships to Make Egypt Competitive and Sustainable', which was unveiled at the ministry of investment and (...)
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 (...)
The ancient Egyptian Hathor Temple, known as “the Lady of Turquoise Temple”, and the surrounding ancient mines are the only sightseeing at Serabit Al-Khadim in South Sinai. However, the stunning natural environment and the traditions and hospitality (...)
The fall of 15 military personnel during an attack on a security checkpoint in North Sinai cast light anew on the genuine threat that terrorism poses to Egypt and the world.
Mohamed Amin noted that the wheel of life did not stop in Egypt. The (...)
Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on Monday the Cairo Criminal Court's previous ruling to add 241 defendants to the terrorist list.
They were accused of forming a group in violation of the law, planning to kill police and army personnel, and (...)
The death toll of the suicide bombing at Cairo's downtown area, Al-Darb Al-Ahmar, rose to three policemen, the security sources reported on Tuesday.
A suicide bomber directly blew himself up on Monday evening when the security personnel came close (...)
A total of 16 militants were killed in North Sinai governorate on Tuesday morning during two raids by Egypt's security forces, according to the ministry of interior.
This came after the National Security Apparatus identified two terrorist hideouts, (...)
Eight militants were killed in North Sinai on Wednesday morning during a raid by security forces, according to the military spokesperson.
In a statement, the military said the forces targeted seven terrorist dens where the militants were hiding, and (...)
Egypt's Armed Forces announced on Wednesday morning that it has destroyed seven terrorist hideouts and killed eight extremely dangerous terrorists in North Sinai governorate.
According to a statement released by the army spokesperson, security (...)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi held a meeting on Sunday night with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper reported.
The meeting came a day after the Arish attack that targeted a security (...)
=Over the three weeks of the extensive armed operation called ‘Sinai 2018', 2,770 individuals were arrested during attempts to cross the borders to/or from Egypt through the western borders between Egypt and Libya, and the southern borders between (...)
Seven extremists were killed on Saturday morning in a gunfight with the security forces in North Sinai governorate, according to a statement from the military's spokesperson, Tamer El-Refaei.
The statement said that the seven extremists amongst (...)
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 (...)
The Industrial Development Bank (IDB) has signed a cooperation protocol with the governorate of Alexandria and the Mortgage Finance Fund (MFF) in order to fund low-income individuals' residential units in the governorate.
The new protocol aims to (...)
Egypt's participation in the annual Munich Security Conference, which concluded early this week, was an important opportunity to present the vision of its leadership on major political, economic and security challenges facing the Middle East region (...)
Shawkan released
AUTHORITIES have started procedures to release photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid — known as Shawkan — who has spent five years in prison after being arrested while covering the forced break-up of the Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in in (...)
German researchers have discovered one way sleep improves the body's ability to fight off a cold. Sleep, it seems, strengthens the potency of certain immune cells by improving their chances of attaching to-and eventually destroying-cells infected (...)
An ancient Roman-Ptolemaic maintenance workshop which was used to repair ships during this era was discovered in Til Abu Sefi, North Sinai, the Ministry of Antiquities announced on Tuesday.
The workshop was found to be built of bricks. The (...)
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 (...)
Undoubtedly revolutions are turning points in history, and their magnitude is usually measured by the impact they have on world affairs decades if not centuries later.
However, the French Revolution (1789-1799) that employed the noble slogan of (...)
The UK's Minister of State for Security Ben Wallace has commended the Egyptian government's efforts on combating terrorism in Sinai during a meeting with the Egypt's Ambassador to the UK Tarek Adel on Saturday.
Adel discussed with the British (...)
This week saw the first meeting of the board of the new Universal Healthcare Authority (UHA) headed by Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait and created to oversee the implementation of the new universal health insurance system whose first phase will go (...)
Seven suspected terrorists were killed in a fire exchange with security forces in Al-Arish, North of Sinai, according to an interior ministry statement.
The security forces launched a raid on a terrorist hideout in a remote area in Al-Arish, the (...)
With the aim of improving the educational system and providing the less fortunate children in the remote regions with a chance to receive better education, the UK Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) has allocated a total of EGP 276m to the Integrated (...)
From the Kalashnikov and FN to RBG, thermal rockets and Kornet missiles that caused the death of dozens of Egyptian security men in Sinai over the years .All of this comes from one point: Al Jaghbub oasis.
The Quiet city
Al Jaghbub oasis is located (...)
