According to official statistics, the total number of railway accidents from 2006 until 2016 was 12,236. The highest accident rates were in 2009 and reached 1,577 accidents, while the lowest were in 2012 with 447 accidents, due to the traffic … read more
Egypt’s Transport Minister Hisham Arafat said on Saturday that a deadly train collision in Alexandria on Friday was caused by the Egyptian railway’s manual-operation system and poorly developed infrastructure. Arafat made the remarks in a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel … read more
CAIRO (Reuters) – Two trains collided in Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria on Friday killing 36 people and injuring more than 100 others, a health ministry spokesman said. The crash at 2:15 p.m. (1215 GMT) near the suburban Khorshid station … read more
Egypt’s skies witnessed the astronomical phenomenon of the Perseid Meteor Shower last night. Ashraf Tadros, head of the astronomy department at the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), said that the meteor shower began at midnight and will continue until … read more
Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry told US special envoys on the Qatar dispute Anthony Zinni and Tim Timothy Lenderking in a meeting in Cairo on Thursday evening that Doha must end its support to terrorist organisations as a condition to … read more
Hilton Worldwide (HLT.N) plans to nearly double the number of its hotels in Egypt within seven to 10 years as tourism returns to levels seen before the 2011 uprising, the company’s deputy head for Egypt and North Africa said. Tourism … read more
Nine Spanish tourists were rescued when their yacht sank in the Red Sea near Hurghada early on Friday, state news agency MENA reported. The chairman of the Society for the Rescue and Protection of the Environment in the Red Sea, … read more
The Chargé d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Cairo, Thomas H. Goldberger, announced that the recently issued travel warning from the US State Department regarding travel to Egypt, was ‘inaccurate’ content and was released without any coordination with Egyptian authorities. … read more
Tourism Minister Yehya Rashed met the president and vice president of the Italian Federation of Tourism Associations (FIAVET), Jacopo De Ria and Ivana Jelenic, in Cairo Wednesday. The minister discussed ways to stimulate tourism between the countries and cooperation between … read more
Out-of-action Egypt dropped one spot to 25th place in the FIFA global rankings this month, although the drop has not affected their position as the top-ranked African team. The Pharaohs’ last competitive game was against Tunisia in the 2019 Africa … read more
