Egypt’s income from tourism, an important sector of the economy, rose 27 percent to $7.5 billion in 2014 from $5.9 billion the previous year, the tourism minister said on Sunday. The country received 9.9 million tourists in 2014, up from … read more
Egypt‘s pound weakened to 7.59 per dollar, from 7.49 at the last sale, at a central bank auction on Sunday, the weakest level it has been allowed to reach since auctions began in December 2012. The bank offered 40 million … read more
AFP After having used the Internet profusely for propaganda and recruitment, jihadist organisations have realised that investigators are gleaning crucial information online and are increasingly concealing their web presence, experts say. Apart from recent orders given to fighters to limit … read more
Thousands of mourners attended the funerals of a number of Egyptian soldiers who were killed in coordinated militant attacks in Sinai on Thursday. Egyptian television stations showed thousands of people marching in funeral processions in the Nile Delta governorates of … read more
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi cut short a visit to the Ethiopian capital for an African Union summit, following a wave of deadly attacks on Thursday night in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula claimed by Islamic State’s Egypt wing. Sisi’s office said … read more
Islamic State’s Egypt wing claimed a series of attacks that killed at least 27 security personnel on Thursday in some of the worst anti-government violence in months, after commemorations around the anniversary of the 2011 uprising turned deadly in the … read more
By Bjørn Lomborg Violence holds a huge cost for our world. Globally, the cost runs to more than 11% of the world’s GDP. But this is not mostly about the highly visible violence that dominates TV and news. Civil wars … read more
The head of the State Information Service (SIS) assembled a group of predominately foreign journalists on Wednesday to urge them to increase their reportage of the government’s angle, following days in which Egypt has been scrutinised in the world’s media … read more
A number of Egyptian women plan protest Thursday in the same place where 33-year-old activist and mother Shaimaa El-Sabagh was shot dead Saturday, condemning the police that they accuse of killing El-Sabagh. “We are the women who witnessed what happened … read more
Members of Tamarud youth group will run for seats in parliament as independents, a spokesman said, despite a court ruling on Wednesday rejecting the group’s founding of a political party. Earlier today, the Supreme Administrative Court rejected the group’s request … read more