Ride-hailing app Uber has partnered up with the leading Nile river transport company NileTaxi to introduce UberBoat in Cairo, offering riders more convenient transportation options away from the chaotic Cairo traffic for a limited time. With the tap of a button, … read more
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has said in an interview with national newspapers editors that talk of whether he would run for another term as president is premature and affirmed Egypt’s strong ties with its long-time allies Saudi Arabia and the … read more
Border guards arrested 12 smugglers and seized weapons, ammunition and drugs during a smuggling attempt in the Great Sand Sea, western Egypt. Meanwhile, border guards in North Sinai discovered a 10-meter-deep illegal smuggling tunnel in North Sinai. Border guards seized eight SUVs … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm The prices of poultry and beef increased madly before the month of Ramadan, as the kilo of poultry increased by LE3 on Thursday to reach LE26 for the live poultry, and LE31 for frozen poultry. Beef reached LE145 … read more
Egypt’s prosecutor-general Nabil Sadek on Thursday referred a judge to criminal court for killing a student in Cairo earlier this month, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported. The appeal court judge was accused of killing 23-year-old Momen Saad Agha, a German University … read more
Reuters BP has started gas production from two fields in its West Nile Delta development off Egypt’s coast, the second of seven projects the oil and gas company plans to launch this year. The Taurus and Libra fields, commissioned eight … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Thomas Cook British airline has announced it will resume flights to Marsa Alam airport twice a week from Birmingham on Monday and Gatwick on Thursday after suspending flights to the city since 2008. The company advised its customers … read more
Egypt Independent Mystery still surrounds the death of Magdalena Zuk, a 27-year-old Polish woman who committed suicide at Port Ghalid hospital where she was being held for her own safety a few days after arriving at the Red Sea resort … read more
Egypt Independent Thomas Cook cancelled its Sharm el-Sheikh holiday bookings and flight programs for this year as a result of the continued UK Foreign Office warnings over potential terrorist incidents, the company is instead increasing flights to Hurghada and Marsa … read more
A 27-year-old Polish tourist who fell to her death from a hospital window in an Egyptian resort may have been drugged and gang-raped. Video footage has emerged which showed her lashing out at several men and acting erratically only a … read more