Unknown assailants staged an RPG attack on a security checkpoint near Rafah in North Sinai, state news agency MENA reported early Friday. No deaths or casualties have been reported. Egypt’s army is currently battling a jihadist militant insurgency in North … read more
Pro-Mursi alliance rallies for Friday protests ahead of uprising’s anniversary read more
The Egyptian Court of Cassation ordered on Thursday the retrial of three journalists from Qatari news network al-Jazeera sentenced to seven to ten years in prison last year for charges including creating a “terrorist media cell”. The defendants are to … read more
Egypt paid $2.1 billion of its debt to foreign energy companies, Oil Minister Sherif Ismail said on Wednesday, a move that could improve the investment climate and ease the country’s worst energy crisis in decades. The payment was the third … read more
The three Al Jazeera English journalists imprisoned in Egypt await an appeal on Thursday, while their hopes largely rely on foreign pressure on the Egyptian authorities. The US administration expressed its concerns about the detained Al Jazeera journalists and their … read more
Laws alone are not enough to put an end to different types of violence against women and girls, Mervat Al-Tallawy, head of the National Council for Women’s Rights (NCWR) said during a Sunday press conference. Al-Tallawy was speaking on behalf … read more
Public funds investigators arrested a gang of four, including two Nigerians, specialized in stealing money from individuals, companies and banks via the internet. The gang is allegedly led by a Nigerian filmmaker. The gang was discovered when an Egyptian businessman … read more
An Egyptian court on Monday banned a Jewish religious festival in Egypt and barred the transfer of what is claimed to be the remains of a rabbi – buried in the country’s northern Behira province – to Israel, a judicial … read more
Hopes are fading for the release of Australian journalist Peter Greste, who has been in jail in Egypt for a year, after Cairo sent mixed signals about his case, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Monday. The Al Jazeera … read more
