Egypt will complete a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal by December, oil minister Sherif Ismail said on Monday, pushing back by another month the long-delayed project that is meant to help the country combat an energy crisis. Egypt can export LNG but cannot … read more
A child has lost his hand in a blast in North Sinai’s Sheikh Zuweid, state news agency MENA reported on Monday. It is unclear whether an IED or a landmine caused the explosion. The 10-year-old boy was transferred to … read more
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said that Egypt’s 2013 illiteracy rate stood at 25.9 percent for citizens 10 years old and above. At least 17.2 million people, including 10.9 million females, were illiterate, with the highest rate … read more
Supreme Constitutional Court head Adli Mansour issued on Sunday a decision setting the maximum wage for the court’s staff at 42 thousand Egyptian pounds. The decision applies to the court’s head, his deputies, the court’s commissioners and employees at its … read more
Two people were killed and nine others were injured on Saturday after a truck loaded with bricks overturned on the Ring road in the Zahraa Masr al-Qadima area. Eyewitness said the truck driver likely lost control, which made him collide … read more
Egypt hosts refugees estimated at five million from Syria, Libya, and a number of neighbouring African countries, Egypt’s President AbdelFattah al-Sisi said in a meeting with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres on Saturday. Egypt is keen on hosting … read more
Egypt’s prosecutor general ordered Saturday the detention of nine men for four days pending investigations, on charges of incitingdebauchery and violating public decency after appearing in a Youtube video. The video, titled “Egypt’s first gay marriage”, has stirred controversy after … read more
Ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and two of his aides were referred to trial on Saturday over charges of leaking classified national intelligence to the Qatari intelligence. Egypt’s prosecutor general accused Mursi, the head of his presidential office Ahmed Abdel … read more
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addressed the Thursday electricity blackout in a televised speech aired on state television on Saturday, saying that the electricity crisis cannot be fixed overnight. Thursday’s power outage resulted from a technical malfunction causing the loss of … read more
Islamic State, fighting to redraw the map of the Middle East, has been coaching Egypt’s most dangerous militant group, complicating efforts to stabilise the biggest Arab nation. Confirmation that Islamic Sate, currently the most successful of the region’s jihadi groups, … read more