(Aswat Masriya) – An Egyptian court sentenced on Saturday head of Journalists’ Syndicate and two senior board members to two years in prison for harbouring fugitives inside the syndicate’s headquarters. The verdict, which can still be appealed, was issued in absentia … read more
Investors are finding a rare bright spot amid the emerging-market rout that has followed Donald Trump’s election victory, in a country they had shunned since 2011: Egypt. The nation’s benchmark stocks gauge is the world’s best performer since the Nov. … read more
Russia and Egypt are currently negotiating to outfit two new Mistral-class warships Cairo received this year with modern equipment and electronic warfare systems, Russian news agency TASS said on Thursday. “The Russian Federation has offered Egypt a wide range of … read more
Egypt Independent The holding company for EgyptAir has decided to liberalize the price of airline tickets and determine it in accordance with the policy of supply and demand, company president Safwat Mesallam announced in a statement Thursday. Mesallam said prices … read more
(Aswat Masriya) – Doctors’ Syndicate deputy head Mona Mina clarified that her statements on reusing syringes were exaggerated and taken out of context by the media, in a statement on the syndicate’s website. Mina had earlier made statements in a … read more
Dozens of young prisoners pardoned by Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi were released early on Friday, Egypt’s state TV reported. El-Sisi pardoned on Thursday 82 detainees, including many university students jailed for protesting and a former TV host convicted of blasphemy. State TV … read more
Similar to other cases of police brutality in Egypt’s detention centres, the family of Magdy Khalil, a 50-year-old vendor, accused a captain in the Al-Amaryia police station of torturing their relative to death after his arrest. The family’s lawyer, Ali … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi instructed Health Minister Ahmed Rady to order a national company to swiftly import medicines that are not available at hospitals and pharmacies and have no alternatives, Health Ministry Spokesperson Khaled Megahed said. Megahed told … read more
Cairo ready to host and sponsor a national dialogue between different Palestinian political forces, Egypt’s general intelligence chief told a Palestinian Islamic Jihad delegation on Wednesday during a Cairo meeting. On Wednesday, Egypt’s general intelligence chief Khaled Fawzy received in … read more
MENA The US dollar exchange rate continued to decline compared to the Egyptian pound in major banks since the IMF announced it handed over the first batch of a US $12 billion loan to Egypt, equal to US $2.75 billion. … read more