As Uber, a transportation network company, sought this year to expand in Egypt, one of the most competitive ride-sharing markets, its executives faced a troubling request from Egyptian ministers: Could they provide access to heaven? [ More … ]
The Court of Cassation sentenced six young people to death and three others to life in prison on Wednesday for killing an enlisted police officer in Egypt’s northern city of Mansoura in February 2014. The [ More … ]
Sixty political parties and movements as well as a number of public figures said they will confront parliament’s discussion of the maritime demarcation agreement with Saudi Arabia through all peaceful political and constitutional methods. They [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is scheduled to meet with chancellor Merkel to discuss latest developments in the region and bilateral relations Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi headed to Germany on Sunday to attend the German-African Summit, according [ More … ]
Qatar on Friday denounced a terrorism blacklist published by Saudi Arabia and its allies which linked individuals and organisations in Doha to support for militant groups, describing it as ‘baseless’. Qatar on Friday denounced a [ More … ]
The total domestic public debt has risen to LE3.079 trillion in the period from July to March of the fiscal year 2016/2017. In its latest report on Thursday, the CBE broke down the figure, attributing [ More … ]
Egypt is back on the blacklist of the UN-affiliated International Labor Organization (ILO) over the nation’s failure to issue a new trade union law in keeping with ILO Convention 87 concerning the right to organize. [ More … ]
Egypt’s Tourism Minister Yehia Rashed’s policies are the reason why Egypt’s tourism is in a “poor condition”, say tourism officials A number of Egypt’s tourism sector representatives, including Chairman of the Red Sea Tourism Investment [ More … ]
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed on Tuesday over the phone the latest updates in the Middle East region, state news agency MENA reported. “They continued to exchange views on the current [ More … ]
The US Embassy’s security message prohibits US citizens in Egypt from visiting religious sites outside Greater Cairo The US Embassy in Cairo released on Monday a security message for US nationals in Egypt warning of [ More … ]
Neither Egypt nor Qatar have clarified the situation of Egyptian residents in Qatar after Egypt announced cutting diplomatic relations with Qatar Egyptian Minister of Expatriate Affairs Nabila Makram announced on Monday that no complaints were [ More … ]
A number of Arab nations cut off relations with Qatar on Monday morning, accusing it of ‘sponsoring terrorism’. The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and Gen. Khalifa Haftar in Libya all cut off [ More … ]
The Muslim Brotherhood has issued a statement condemning the UAE’s “blatant interference in the affairs of several Arab countries and coordination with the Zionist lobby for spreading chaos, killing, and coups in the region,” according to [ More … ]
Khartoum has rejected an official offer from Cairo to implement the terms of a 2004 inactive agreement on the contested border area of the Halayeb Triangle. Sudan has rejected an official offer from Egypt applying [ More … ]
Two Republican U.S. senators slammed Wednesday a law recently passed by Egypt’s Al-Sisi as “draconian” for imposing heavy restrictions and effectively banning the work of non-governmental organizations – the latest among measures cracking down on [ More … ]
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