The number of Egyptians confirmed killed in the hajj crowd disaster in Saudi Arabia last month has risen to 181, Egypt’s minister of religious endowments told state news agency MENA late on Sunday. Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa also told MENA that … read more
Egypt’s Interior Ministry told Aswat Masriya Thursday that the Muslim Brotherhood’s former spokesman Gehad el-Haddad was transferred to the prison hospital yesterday for a regular check up and then moved back to his cell upon his own request. On October … read more
Spokesperson to the Higher Elections Committee (HEC) Omar Marawan has said the law stipulates that all niqab-wearing women will only cast ballots if they remove the face veil while voting, for identity verification purposes. Otherwise they will be barred. The … read more
Food prices have jumped in September to reach the biggest monthly increase in five years, EFG Hermes Holdings said in a research paper on Thursday. The surge was driven by a rise in vegetable prices, the Egypt-based investment bank and … read more
Egypt ranked 116, up from 119 last year, in the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report, the first improvement since the 2011 uprisings swept across the Arab World. The 2015-2016 Report assesses the competitiveness of 140 countries, based on their overall scores on 113 indicators. Last … read more
Egypt detected a total of 40 cases of tax evasion valued at 1.09 billion EGP ($139 million) in 24 hours, Youm7 reported Tuesday. The cases included commercial and business-related tax evasion cases. Also around six vehicles were tracked full of … read more
By Mona Ezzat “I can’t say anything so I won’t lose my job,” says Fatma Mohamed, a factory worker in the Egyptian province of Gharbiya. Harassment in the workplace is part of Mohamed’s daily life. “In the factory, it’s a … read more
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said in an interview that the Mideast region needs to cooperate to defeat a worsening terrorist threat that has led to a “ferocious war” in Egypt and created the danger of some countries “sliding into failure.” … read more
Nine militants were killed Friday in an exchange of fire with security forces in the district of Zaidia in Giza governorate, said the Interior Ministry. The exchange of fire resulted in the injury of three police officers and two conscripts … read more
At least 14 Egyptians died in a stampede in Saudi Arabia during Haj, Religious Endowments Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa announced on Friday. At least 717 pilgrims died and 863 were injured on Thursday as pilgrims either suffocated or were trampled … read more