A report published by Mada Masr revealed that former Egyptian Member of Parliament and chairman of the El-Karama (Dignity) Party, Ahmed Tantawi, left Cairo for Beirut, a few days ago, “after security directives to keep [ More … ]
The Reform Current headed by dismissed Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan was shocked by Egypt’s refusal to accept the relocation of its office from Abu Dhabi to Cairo, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Friday. Sources close to [ More … ]
Cairo has ranked 57th out of 60 cities on index of the Safest Cities for 2021, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit has. Cairo is back on the Economist’s Safe Cities Index — and it’s [ More … ]
Earlier on Thursday, Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi received Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace A trilateral summit between Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine’s leaders has kicked off in Cairo to [ More … ]
Alia Mosallam was taken to Egypt’s State Prosecutor’s Office after over 17 hours of detention, before being finally released on bail Monday morning An Egyptian historian was arrested at an airport in Cairo on Sunday, [ More … ]
Early on the morning of Oct. 2, 2018, a Gulfstream jet carrying a team of Saudi assassins on its way to Istanbul made a quick stopover in Cairo, according to Conspiracyland. The purpose: to pick [ More … ]
The Hamas delegation to Cairo includes members from the diaspora Saleh Al-Arouri, Izzat Al-Rashq and Husam Badran as well as officials from its Political Bureau in Gaza Dr. Khalil Al-Hayya, Essam Al-Dalis and Zakaria Abu [ More … ]
The three Egyptian dissidents have reportedly shown support for anti-Sisi protests that erupted across rural Egypt in September, according to Kuwaiti newspaper al-Qabas. The three opposition figures were handed over to Egyptian Interpol in line [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities said they were building a flyover through the capital’s sacred necropolis, while they were exhuming graves and erasing history in the process, a report by MEE says Cairo’s vast necropolis is a sacred [ More … ]
A huge fire erupted at the Cairo-Ismailia desert road when a major gas pipe exploded resulting in major casualties yet to be announced by the ministry of interior. The General Administration of Civil Protection in Cairo sent [ More … ]
While a number of news websites have republished pro-government narrative on the alleged shooting of terrorists in a gun battle between security forces and a “militant hideout”, some activists suggested that it was just a [ More … ]
Both countries signed a deal in Cairo to begin work on Egypt’s Dabaa nuclear power plant Following his whistle-stop trip to Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Egypt on Monday, where the two countries [ More … ]
Somali President, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo arrived in Cairo on Sunday for a two-day state visit to Egypt, after he received an official invitation from Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi. Somali President Farmajo, along with a delegation of [ 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 … ]
Two Red Sea islands will be transferred from Egypt to Saudi Arabia control this week, with Israel approving of the deal. Israel says it backs the controversial handover of two Red Sea islands from Egyptian [ More … ]
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