Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cares more about maintaining good security ties with the Egyptian Army than with re-staffing Israel’s embassy in Cairo which has been empty since the end of 2016, National Security Council [ More … ]
The investment would include expanding the Four Seasons resort in Sharm el-Sheikh in the southern Sinai, transforming it into ‘the biggest resort in the world’. Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is set to [ More … ]
Egypt’s Grand Mufti has issued a new Fatwa that permits spending the Zakat funds on the Army and Police forces In a provocative fatwa that has sparked the anger and derision on social networking sites, [ More … ]
An Egyptian human rights organization stated on Sunday that 254 people have “forcibly disappeared” in the country over the past six months. While the Egyptian authorities repeatedly deny the cases of “enforced disappearance” in the [ More … ]
Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour and his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry would chair the meeting of the joint Sudanese-Egyptian political consultation committee in Khartoum on Wednesday, said Sudan’s Foreign Ministry. In a press release on [ More … ]
Egyptians demand answers after a Coptic teenager was found dead, bearing alleged signs of torture after being detained for two days. Shocking images showing the body of an Egyptian teenager with extreme “torture marks” have [ More … ]
Sadiq al-Mahdi, the leader of Sudan’s largest opposition party, the National Umma Party, has called for “reconciliation” with Egypt in return for the release of imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Speaking in an interview to Sudan [ More … ]
Civilians were seen running from cars as tank was driving over suspect vehicle, before it detonated in a huge fireball, killing seven Seven civilians were killed on Tuesday by a car bomb in Sinai that [ More … ]
Several international organisations are meeting over the latest tensions Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry discussed on Sunday with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the possible coordination towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to official [ More … ]
The Egyptian regime has been subjecting its opponents to enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing since Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi led a military coup against Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi in 2013. The Egyptian Coordination for [ More … ]
Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday issued death sentences for 28 out of the 56 defendants accused of involvement in the 2015 assassination of former General Prosecutor Hesham Barakat. Preliminary death sentences were handed to 30 [ More … ]
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces has arrived in Egypt Saturday to discuss with Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ‘ways to strengthen fraternal cooperation and [ More … ]
Egypt received today the final installment of the first $4 billion tranche of the $12 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, the state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported. An official source at the Central [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi orders campaign to recover state-owned land that has been encroached upon One person was killed and 50 people were injured in clashes on Sunday as security forces tried to evict squatters [ More … ]
Egypt’s state-run news agency says gunmen have attacked a security checkpoint in Cairo, killing five security forces. Five Egyptian policemen were killed when unknown gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in Giza province, south of the [ More … ]
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