The Carter Center has closed its Egypt office saying the country is “unlikely to advance a genuine democratic transition.” The organisation criticised in a statement Wednesday Egypt’s draft NGO law, saying it would put harsh restrictions on NGO activities … read more
Yemeni authorities have detained 62 Egyptians for fishing without a permit in its territorial waters, the head of a fishermen’s group in Suez said on Wednesday. Bakry Aboul Hassan told Al-Ahram Arabic news website that the fishermen were on … read more
Eighty seven percent of Egyptian citizens are satisfied with the performance of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after his first 100 days in power, according to an official survey made public on Wednesday. The poll was conducted by the Cabinet’s Information … read more
Tuesday marks 33 years exactly since Hosni Mubarak was sworn in as president of Egypt. Much has changed in the three decades since, and Mubarak is currently facing retrials on a number of charges related to his time in power, … read more
An explosion late on Tuesday struck an Egyptian pipeline that carries gas to Jordan in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, state news agency MENA reported — the latest in around two dozen such attacks since 2011. The blast, which occurred in … read more
U.S. oil and gas producer Apache Corp, one of the largest foreign investors in Egypt, hopes to reach an agreement with Cairo on higher gas prices by the end of the year and is encouraged by what it considers greater government transparency. President Abdel … read more
Egypt’s petroleum minister examined on Tuesday the possibility of building a power plant to generate electricity for the new Suez Canal Development Project with the help of General Electric. Petroleum Minister Sherif Ismail met with representatives of the American multinational … read more
A bomb went off out near the High Court of Justice in downtown Cairo on Tuesday night. Explosives experts moved to the explosion scene to identify the cause of the explosion and the losses it left behind, reported state-run news … read more
The ministries of Industry and Trade, Investment, oil and agriculture decided to raise the prices of subsidized fertilizers by 33 percent. The price per ton for the urea fertilizer will be LE2,000 instead of LE1,500. A ton of nitrates, according … read more
The Ministry of Health has opted for five medical firms for the production of Sovaldi (Sofosbuvir), the US-made Hepatitis C tablets, without conducting a tender beforehand, Al-Masry Al-Youm has learned. According to a letter from the ministry’s pharmaceutical affairs department to the … read more