Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) announced Saturday that they will be operating a help center to receive harassment reports from women during Eid al-Fitr holiday. Head of the council, Rania Yahya said there will be branches operating in all … read more
The relocation of Mogamma, the government’s bureaucratic administrative building located in Tahrir Square, has begun, and the process is expected to last for a year, announced Cairo Governor Galal Said on Friday. The government complex is an iconic focal point … read more
A number of tests conducted on EgyptAir’s MS804 Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) have shown that the contents are undamaged, Egyptian investigators said in a statement Saturday. The black box were undergoing repair in France. Supported components associated with communications to … read more
(Reuters) – Egyptian Central Bank Governor Tarek Amer said on Thursday that there was no change to the rules on using debit cards abroad and that it was up to individual banks to set limits on client usage. Amer’s comments, … read more
EgyptAir could lose up to $2 million if parliament votes for cancelling daylight saving time, originally announced to begin 5 July; state news agency MENA quoted the chairman of the public company as saying. In April, the government already announced … read more
Egypt’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that the Egyptian embassy in France received from a French auction house an ancient artefact that dates back to the 30th dynasty that ruled in 360-343 B.C. The artefact is an eighty-kilogram limestone slab with an encryption … read more
Egypt has expressed “discomfort” with the decision of the Italian senate to suspend the supply of spare parts for F16 warplanes to Egypt over the early-2016 murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said … read more
Russian tourists will be able to travel to Egypt in “the foreseeable future” as resumption of tourists’ flow to Egypt is a priority for both countries, Russian state-affiliated Sputnik news agency reported citing the Russian Ambassador to Egypt Sergei Kirpichenko. … read more
Egypt’s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail stated that the Islamic Eid Al-Fitr holiday will start Tuesday and run for three days, the cabinet said in a statement Thursday. Employees in ministries, governmental authorities, the public sector and other state-owned institutions will take … read more
Reuters Investigators have downloaded data from one of the black box flight recorders on EgyptAir flight MS804 and are preparing to analyse it, bringing them closer to discovering what caused the jet to crash, Egypt’s investigation committee said on Wednesday. … read more