Governor of South Sinai Khaled Fouda has invited representatives of tourism companies and British government officials to visit Sharm El-Sheikh during the first half of December 2019 to brief them on the positive conditions on the ground.
Fouda's (...)
Egypt has always relied heavily on oil and gas as energy sources, and until a few years ago it has also mainly depended on power plants fuelled by oil and coal, with no companies working on generating renewable energy and an absence of solar power (...)
The United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) 34th session will review the human rights records of three countries — Egypt, Iran and Iraq — that have been the focus of sustained international criticism.
In accordance with UNHRC's Universal (...)
The 12th International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE), inaugurated last week under the patronage of Egypt's Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli, will remain in the hearts and minds of all its participants, speakers and attendees.
Not only because is (...)
“Egypt has advanced 90 ranks in world road quality. We are going to advance even more, not only in roads but also in education, health, governance and anti-corruption,” President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi said last week while inaugurating several new (...)
Heavy rains are expected in several parts of Egypt on Monday, including Halayeb and Shalateen, Marsa Alam, the Red Sea governorate, and South Sinai, according to Mahmoud Shahin, the head of the Egyptian Meteorological Authority's forecast (...)
Egypt has received an offer from an UAE company to implement new desalination plants, with investments worth $800 million.
The UAE company has submitted a bid to implement desalination plants in Egypt with a total capacity of 500,000 cubic metres (...)
Egypt is planning to establish 12 new investment zones , Minister of Investments and International Cooperation Sahar Nasr
The new zones are expected to create 500 thousand direct and indirect jobs, and attract investments worth 78 billion Egyptian (...)
Minister of Investments and International Cooperation Sahar Nasr said Friday that 12 investment zones were planned to be established.
The new zones are expected to create 500 thousand direct and indirect jobs, and attract investments worth EGP 78 (...)
Egypt's Armed Forces Engineering Authority is carrying out 2,343 infrastructure flagships nationwide, Minister of Housing Asem El-Gazzar said on Tuesday.
At a cost of 822 billion Egyptian pounds ($50.8 million), the projects are being implemented in (...)
Egypt is set to start establishing a new city in Suez, 134 km (83 miles) from Cairo, next July, said Minister of Housing Asem El-Gazzar on Tuesday.
Egypt is embarking on a slate of ambitious and new, fourth-generation ‘smart' cities on the cusp of (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he welcomes a recent decision by the UK to resume direct flights to Sharm El-Sheikh following a four-year hiatus.
El-Sisi told Johnson that the British (...)
Train
manslaughter charge
THE GENERAL Prosecution on Saturday referred a train conductor to an extraordinary criminal trial on charges of manslaughter after he forced two young men to jump out of a moving train, causing the death of one and serious (...)
THE INTERIOR Ministry has called on people who own vehicles to head as soon as possible to the nearest traffic department to get their new electronic car stickers.
The sticker, which will be attached to the car's windshield, has a smart chip on (...)
Egypt's House of Representatives, the country's parliament, approved on Monday a presidential decree extending the nationwide state of emergency for a further three months, beginning at 1am on 27 October.
The approval came one day after Prime (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi instructed the government on Sunday to launch the experimental stage of the second phase of the comprehensive health insurance system in Luxor and South Sinai governorates within March 2020.
During his meeting (...)
The Egyptian army killed 83 terrorists in North and Central Sinai between 28 September and 4 November, the Egyptian Army's General Command said in a statement on Monday.
Army forces seized 65 different types of weapons as well as ammunition, IEDs, (...)
Three Egyptian insurance companies are competing for an insurance policy bid to cover the engineering risks of Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel in Ismailia port city, northeast of Cairo, said sources on Saturday.
The 1,640-metre long car tunnel is named after (...)
The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) expressed interest in furthering cooperation with Egypt, said the fund's vice-chairman and managing director, Khaled bin Sulaiman Alkhudairy, during a meeting with Egypt's Minister of Investment and International (...)
60 new oil and gas discoveries have been made during the last financial year 2018/2019, Chairman of the General Petroleum Authority Abed Ezz told Egypt Today on Tuesday.
He pointed out during the meeting of the House Committee on Budget and Plan (...)
The news from the White House confirming the death of Islamic State (IS) group leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in a commando operation carried out in coordination with Iraqi intelligence, Syrian Kurds and some Arab states in Idlib, Syria, on the night (...)
Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) signed an agreement worth KD26 million ($85.3 million) with Egypt to finance the a tunnel road in Sharm El Sheikh.
The scope of works includes the construction of a road running about 350 km long to (...)
Egyptian officials say they've stepped up security in parts of the country following the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The extremist group's leader was killed a day earlier during a U.S. military raid in Syria.
Egypt has for (...)
The number of Japanese tourists visiting Egypt rose 38.2 percent during the first nine months of 2019, Tourism Minister Rania Al-Mashat said during her participation in the Tourism Expo Japan 2019, held in Osaka.
Al-Mashat listed Tokyo as one of the (...)
Egypt's Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly and Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Jaber Al Mubarak Al Hamad Al Sabah on Monday witnessed the signing of a $1 billion deal to fund the second phase of Sinai development programme.
The two premiers also witnessed (...)
