Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi said in a Thursday press conference following the end of the presidential election Wednesday that he respects the Egyptians’ choice and admits his loss in the election. “To all who voted for any of the candidates … read more
The overall turnout of the Egyptian voters in the initial two days of presidential election 2014 reached only 7.5 percent of the total number of people listed in the electoral rolls, according to The Egyptian Center for Media and Public … read more
US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that the relationship with Egypt is based on the security interests of the peace treaty with Israel and on joint efforts to combat terrorism. Outlining his foreign policy to cadets of the New … read more
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who toppled Egypt’s first freely elected leader, swept to victory in a presidential election, provisional results showed on Thursday, joining a long line of leaders drawn from the military. But a lower than expected turnout … read more
presidential elections scheduled for Monday and Tuesday provide a choice between only two candidates, Nasserist politician Hamdeen Sabbahi and former army chief Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. This is the second presidential elections to be held since the January 25 Revolution in 2011. The … read more
The campaign of presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi withdrew all its delegates from polling stations on Wednesday on the third day of Egypt’s presidential election. The Presidential Elections Commission supervising the election extended the vote for an extra day on Wednesday. … read more
The Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) has extended voting hours on Tuesday to 10pm, as Egyptians cast their ballots in the second day of a two-day election to choose their first leader since last year’s ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. … read more
In Mahalla Al-Kobra in the Nile Delta, voters reportedly discovered cannabis plants being grown in the yard of a school that was being used as a polling station on the first day of Egypt’s presidential election. According to independent … read more
Egyptians continued voting on Tuesday in a two-day presidential election in which former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi are competing. Polling stations will be opened until 10.00 p.m. on Tuesday. Egypt’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab … read more
Egypt‘s Interior Ministry denied an earlier report on state TV of a homemade bomb exploding outside a polling station in the city of El-Mahalla El-Kubra on Monday, on the first day of voting in presidential elections. In a post on … read more