During a speech from the presidential palace in Khartoum on Friday, Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir declared a one-year state of emergency, and dissolved the government, in addition to dismissing all the states' governors.
Additionally, he demanded (...)
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir will restructure the government and the ruling party, has declared a state of emergency, and will address the nation later today, Saudi Arabia's Al-Arabiya channel reported on Friday.
Al-Bashir has decided to give (...)
Harvest Foods Egypt aims to increase exports by 35% this year by opening new markets.
The company's Exports Director, Mohamed Abdel Hamid, said that they achieved exports worth $5.4m last year across 25 countries.
He added that the company plans to (...)
Senyorita For Food Industries Company aims to achieve an increase in its exports by 18% this year through expanding in the African market.
Tarek Younis, the head of export at the company, said that the company targets increasing its exports from (...)
Port Said Food Industries and Dairy Products (Riyada Egypt) aims to increase its exports by 25% this year to reach $10m instead of $8m last year.
Chairperson of the company, Ibrahim Mohamed Sudan, said that Riyada Egypt plans to open new markets for (...)
South Sudan's oil economy should be examined by the U.N. Human Rights Council for evidence that oil interests are responsible for war crimes, a member of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said on Wednesday.
Andrew Clapham, a member (...)
Siemens has completed building and connecting the extension of Toshka electrical substation, southern Egypt, after three months of work, Siemens revealed on Monday.
The new extension paves the way for the implementation of the Egypt-Sudan electric (...)
The previous summer has witnessed heavy rain in Sudan leading to the suitable circumstances for breeding for desert locust, the Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Ezz El-Din Abou Steet, said on Sunday.
Commenting on the latest report of (...)
The Golden Bear, the top award at the Berlin International Film Festival (BIFF), went to the Israeli-French-German co-production Synonyms by director Nadav Lapid. It was given to the producers of the film Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt.
It follows the (...)
=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 (...)
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned of an outbreak of the desert locust populations in Sudan and Eritrea which are rapidly spreading along both sides of the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
According to the FAO's statement on (...)
Helmi Shaarawi's "Egyptian African Biography" (Sira Misriya Afrikiya) is a large volume of over 500 pages that came out a couple of weeks ago during the 2019 Cairo International Book Fair.
It was also released in time for Egypt's taking over the (...)
Africa has been called “the continent of the future” and “the cursed continent” and both phrases reflect a facet of the truth. The continent possesses a cornucopia of riches that have long lured great powers.
Their rivalries sowed tensions and (...)
It's been almost two months since the start of protests in Sudan against President Omar Al-Bashir and his regime. However, neither side has prevailed, and for several reasons.
First, regional and international caution towards developments in Sudan; (...)
Armed conflict remains one of the greatest threats to Africa. In addition to taking millions of lives, it obstructs development and has set back remedies to political, economic and social problems for decades. The crises in Somalia, Libya, Sudan, (...)
Last week, Libyan customs authorities in the Khums seaport seized another cargo of illicit arms and military hardware from Turkey. In a statement released 5 February, the customs authorities said the shipment included nine Toyota Sierra Leone 4X4 (...)
Helmi Shaarawi's “Egyptian African Biography” (Sira Misriya Afrikiya) is a large volume of over 500 pages that came out a couple of weeks ago during the 2019 Cairo International Book Fair. It was also released in time for Egypt's taking over the (...)
Africa has been called “the continent of the future” and “the cursed continent” and both phrases reflect a facet of the truth. The continent possesses a cornucopia of riches that have long lured great powers. Their rivalries sowed tensions and (...)
The business community has high hopes that Egypt's presidency of the African Union (AU) this year will boost trade and investments with African countries.
Egypt has strong economic and commercial ties with Nile Basin countries, including Rwanda, the (...)
Egypt's relationship with Africa dates back millennia. In the modern age, however, starting with the irrigation projects under Mohamed Ali in the early 19th century, Cairo increasingly focused on the Nile and its sources. This beginning laid the (...)
Armed conflict remains one of the greatest threats to Africa. In addition to taking millions of lives, it obstructs development and has set back remedies to political, economic and social problems for decades.
The crises in Somalia, Libya, Sudan, (...)
Egypt's relationship with Africa dates back millennia. In the modern age, however, starting with the irrigation projects under Mohamed Ali in the early 19th century, Cairo increasingly focused on the Nile and its sources.This beginning laid the (...)
Many years ago, we used to sing a song in school that went “The waters of the Nile flow not through two lands but one / The Nile brings us together with its glistening waters.”
We believed heart and soul that Egypt and Sudan were one country, and so (...)
The leaders of the Arab League and the European Union (EU) will hold their first summit on 24 and 25 February in Sharm El-Sheikh to bring their positions together on a wide range of regional and international issues, ranging from the conflicts in (...)
