Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi issued a presidential decree on Saturday, effective immediately, appointing Lieutenant General Mohamed Farid Hegazi as the new chief-of-staff of the Armed Forces, replacing Lieutenant General Mahmoud Ibrahim Hegazi. The president has appointed the outgoing chief-of-staff Mahmoud … read more
Last Friday night a young man believed to have been under the influence of synthetic drug flakka, attacked and bit a young boy several times on the neck in the streets of New Cairo, with witnesses describing the bizarre incident … read more
Egypt’s new Sphinx International Airport (SPX) on the outskirts of the capital Cairo is set to start service next summer, civil aviation minister Sherif Fathy announced on Saturday. Fathy said the airport, which has been built west of Cairo on … read more
Egypt’s Transportation minister, Hesham Arafat, said during a press conference on Saturday. that the ministry is planning to purchase 1,000 new trains worth EGP 16 billion, in aims to upgrade the country’s old railway system. The new trains will be … read more
The 21 year-old Egyptian professional squash player Noor Al-Sherbini, who is ranked number one in the world, won the ‘CAROL WEYMULLER’ Women’s Squash Championship held in New York City. Noor Sherbini was able to win the ‘CAROL WEYMULLER’ championship when … read more
Meteorologists expect rain on Thursday along the north coast, in some governorates in Lower Egypt and in Cairo, amid low and medium level cloud cover. Moderate temperatures are predicted but along the northeastern coast could be cooler than in the … read more
Egypt’s Minister of Health and Population Ahmed Emad said Monday that 2018 will witness the launch of a comprehensive health care system, which will be applied for all Egyptians at a high degree of efficiency. In statements to al-Masry al-Youm, … read more
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met on Tuedsay with Hervé Guillou, the CEO of French company Naval Group, which has a contract to supply naval vessels to Egypt. El-Sisi, who arrived in Paris on Monday at the start of a three-day … read more
A video of a high speed car chase has circulated around Egyptian social media since Monday. The video shows Egyptian woman, Yara Alaa Al-Din, following the car of some kidnappers, who had taken a young Syrian man in Cairo. Din was … read more
Egypt racked up $170 million worth of exports to Kenya during the first half of 2017, according to a new government report, indicating a 30 percent increase in Egypt’s exporting rate to the sub-Saharan African nation compared to the same … read more