Egypt’s cabinet declares a ban on third-party wheat trading until the end of August, barring any sales to anybody other than the government. After the Ukraine war cut it off from much of the Black Sea wheat it relied on, Cairo, one of the world’s largest wheat importers, is aiming for 6 million tons of … Read more
CAIRO: Egypt’s Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Poland’s Andrzej Duda addressed the Russia-Ukraine crisis and its international ramifications. “This crisis has cast a shadow over the global economy and threatens the food security of various countries around the world,” El-Sisi said during a press conference with Duda in Cairo. Read more: Egyptian minister’s son faces murder … Read more
Liverpool forward Sadio Mane is said to leave the club, according to reports. Mane is said to depart the club, according to James Pearce of The Athletic, albeit no agreement has been declared amid speculations that a move to Bayern Munich is close. Fabrizio Romano, a transfer insider, was the first to break the news … Read more
Nabila Makram, Egypt’s Minister of Immigration and Expatriate Affairs, is accused of cold-blooded murder in the April killings of two men in California. Ramy Hani Mounir Fahim, of Irvine, California, has also been charged with lying in wait and personal use of a deadly weapon, after a coworker and his roommate were stabbed to death … Read more
MPs have asked that Boris Johnson’s government apply “maximum pressure” on Egypt human rights to get a consular visit for UK citizen Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who has been on a hunger strike for nearly two months, saying that his situation is “dire and urgent.” More than 30 MPs and peers wrote to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss … Read more
Tarik Saleh, the Swedish-Egyptian director whose latest film Boy from Heaven premiered in the competition section of the Cannes Film Festival this week, laughs off the compliments. Nonetheless, Boy from Heaven is sure to raise some eyebrows with its depiction of corruption, hypocrisy, and power conflicts between Egypt’s religious establishment and state. Adam (Tawfeek Barhom), … Read more
The host country, Egypt, has made it plain that financial aid for developing countries must be at the top of the agenda for this year’s UN climate negotiations, as states will be expected to follow through on commitments made at the Cop26 conference last year. Cop27 will be held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in November. … Read more
The World Economic Forum in Davos will see the launch of initiatives in collaboration with diverse parties with the goal of meeting climate pledges, according to Egypt’s foreign minister and designated summit president. Egypt’s strategy for COP27, which the country will host in November, according to Sameh Shoukry, is based on the need to focus … Read more
Egypt has approved direct flights between Yemen’s rebel-controlled capital and Cairo, The Yemeni government announced Tuesday, in the latest sign of progress in the war-torn country. The approval comes after the first commercial flight in six years flew last week from Sanaa to Amman, Jordan, as part of an UN-brokered truce between Yemen’s internationally recognized … Read more
Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly discussed with Osmar Chohfi, president of the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, and its Secretary-General Tamer Mansour, economic ties between the two countries. Nader Saad, the spokesman for Egypt’s Cabinet, said the meeting also reviewed growing ties between Brazil and Arab countries. Madbouly stressed Cairo’s support for all efforts to bolster … Read more
Iran-backed Houthis have named their representatives on a joint committee that will work to reopen roads in Taiz and other provinces, raising hopes of an end to the militants’ siege of the strategic city, a Yemeni government official said. After weeks of delays, the Houthis sent a list of candidates for the committee to the … Read more
The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate will honor the late Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh with a special category in the Egyptian Press Awards bearing her name. The award will be based on coverage of Palestine. Syndicate head Diaa Rashwan said that Abu Akleh’s death had caused an emotional outpouring in the Arab world and around the … Read more
The Foreign Ministry of Egypt stated on Wednesday that it is “concerned” about developments in Tripoli, which erupted in violent riots overnight. Rival armed factions battled as parliament-appointed Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha attempted to seize power but was forced to leave by the Government of National Unity led by Abdel Hamid Dabaiba, as well as … Read more
Egypt anticipates investment in the energy industry to range between $7 and $8 billion for the current fiscal year, according to the ministry of petroleum and natural resources. Tarek El-Molla went on to say that the data were being reviewed with foreign corporations and that changes in global oil prices necessitated additional investment plans. He … Read more
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli announced Sunday a string of deliberate privatizations of state-owned organizations, as Cairo grapples with a monetary disaster and inflation at nearly 15%. Following years of accusations of kingdom agencies crowding out non-public investments, the authorities introduced a roadmap on Sunday to greater than double the personal area’s percentage in the economy. Madbouli … Read more
CAIRO: The Egyptian army killed 14 terrorists during armed clashes and military operations in the North Sinai Governorate on Wednesday. Seven terrorists were killed in skirmishes with law enforcement authorities when they attempted to attack a security installation in North Sinai, according to an Egyptian military statement. According to the statement, the terrorists’ automatic rifles, … Read more
The oldest son of Egyptian hate preacher Abu Hamza, the renowned former imam of London’s Finsbury Park Mosque, has been sentenced to refund £5,200 ($6,400) in illicit proceeds from a money laundering scam that netted a group of fraudsters about £350,000. Tito Ibn-Sheikh is one of Hamza’s eight offspring. His father was featured in the … Read more
At least five Egyptian military personnel were killed in a militant attack on Wednesday in northern Sinai, two security sources said, the second deadly strike against security forces on the peninsula in less than a week. Four others were injured when armed men opened fire at a security post in the coastal area of northeastern … Read more
Egypt, according to Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, supports Morocco’s territorial integrity and is dedicated to finding an international solution to the Western Sahara issue. Following a round of negotiations in Rabat, he issued a joint statement with his Moroccan colleague, Nasser Bourita. He said that Egypt’s position was “in support of the territorial integrity of … Read more
During a meeting of the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces a day after an attack on water pumping infrastructure east of the Suez Canal, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi urged law enforcement to finish the cleaning of territories in Sinai of terrorist groups. El-Sisi emphasized the need of continuing to undertake all security … Read more
CAIRO: Egypt’s public prosecutor ordered the arrest of thirteen teenage males after they harassed two foreign women visitors at the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo. The lads are currently in detention, according to a report by Al Arabia News, and an inquiry into the situation is ongoing. After a video of the event went viral … Read more
Following President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s for a “political dialogue,” 64 activists called on the Egyptian government to take real measures to “establish trust” with the opposition. “There is room for all of us in the nation,” the president said at a public gathering last month, calling on all political factions to get involved in a … Read more
The Minister of Endowments of Egypt, Mohamed Mukhtar Gomaa, has declared the reopening of mosques around the country. He stated that a decision was made today to reopen mosques, restart teachings and Qur’anic reciters, and allow visitors to shrines outside of prayer hours. However, the government will continue to prohibit individuals from remaining in seclusion … Read more
Egypt has released three social media users who were detained after posting a satirical song about the country’s rampant inflation on TikTok, according to rights groups on Sunday. The group released a satirical video on TikTok in March. The band imitated instruments with household items and parodied a romantic song, changing the lyrics to lament … Read more
According to Egypt’s military, at least 11 troops, including an officer, were killed in a terrorist attack in the volatile northern region of the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday. According to the military, terrorists assaulted a water pumping plant east of the Suez Canal on Saturday. It did not provide any other information on the site. … Read more
The Egyptian pilots’ union denied negligence in a 2016 plane crash that killed 66 people, on Friday. Expert findings submitted to the French judiciary suggested that a leaking cockpit oxygen mask and human factors were likely to blame. EgyptAir flight MS804 vanished from radar screens on its approach to Cairo from Paris on May 19, … Read more
Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority announced Sunday an all-time sales report for April, incomes $629 million following a series of toll hikes for vessels transiting the critical waterway. Connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, the canal bills for roughly 10 percent of world maritime trade and is one of Egypt’s major assets of foreign currency … Read more
According to a local official, eight child workers were killed in northern Egypt on Saturday after the van they were travelling in crashed into a canal in the Nile Delta. The victims of the dawn accident worked “picking potatoes”, said the official from Itay al-Baroud in poverty-stricken Beheira province where the crash took place. They … Read more
