Egyptian authorities arrested 11 Muslim Brotherhood members accused of running Facebook pages that incite violence against the police, expanding a crackdown on followers of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to include social media. read more
US independent Apache has applied for two new development leases in Egypt after striking a couple of discoveries in two different concessions. The explorer hit 87 feet of net pay at the Apries-1X well on the Khalda Offset concession in … read more
Unidentified gunmen killed a police officer on Thursday night in Sinai, a police source said. read more
Nabil Salim, head of the Cairo Court of Appeal, decided to allocate nine court circles to crimes relating to spying and espionage. The courts will also be in charge of looking into offenses that are considered a national security risk, … read more
Egypt’s interior ministry has said that it will start arresting those using social media websites to incite violence against the police and other citizens. In a statement released on Thursday, the ministry said that its initiative to track online users … read more
Streets witnessed extensive security measures in the surroundings of Ithadeya Palace and Yusuf al-Sabahy Mosque in Heliopolis on Friday morning, amid calls for demonstrations by Muslim Brotherhood supporters. read more
The Egyptian Coalition for Children’s Rights has called for sacking Egypt’s Interior Minister and has condemned the Interior Ministry’s policies of dealing with children. The coalition denounced the government’s inaction towards reforming and restructuring the Interior Ministry in line with … read more
Power cuts have become frequent in Egypt even in winter when consumption is considerably lower than in the summer. During the last 10 days, Egyptians have reported regular electricity cuts, the second wave of its kind this winter. read more
An agent at a stock brokerage firm was astonished when a beggar he ran into on the street turned out to be one of his rich clients. The employee, speaking to Egypt’s state-run news agency MENA on condition of anonymity, … read more
Saudi Arabia is expected to give Egypt up to $4 billion in additional aid in the form of central bank deposits and petroleum products, state-run Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram reported on Thursday. Citing an unnamed ministerial source, the newspaper said … read more