An explosion occurred on the Beheira railroad early Saturday, temporarily halting traffic yet causing no casualties. Unidentified assailants planted an explosive device on the railroad, causing a metre-deep hole and consequently damaging the rail track, reported state-run news agency MENA. … read more
Four conscripts and a police officer were injured late Friday when unknown assailants shot at a police patrol on the ring road connecting Egypt’s capital city Cairo, according to an interior ministry statement. Greater Cairo’s ring road connects the governorates … read more
Egypt’s petroleum ministry said on Friday that it signed six oil and gas petroleum exploration agreements in the Western Desert and Gulf of Suez. Petroleum Minister, Sherif Ismail, signed the agreements with Netherland’s Shell; Italy’s Eni; United Kingdom’s British Petroleum; … read more
Egypt’s next parliamentary elections are to take place in two stages, splitting up different governorates, in March and April, the Supreme Elections Commission stated on Thursday. Fourteen governorates are to vote in the first stage while 11 are due to … read more
An improvised explosive device exploded near a police station in Fayoum on Wednesday night and injured a policeman, the state-owned Al-Ahram reported. In an investigative campaign, the Ministry of Interior found 180 cases of illegal possession of weapons, 101 drug … read more
Egypt’s stock of wheat for its subsidised bread programme will last until the first week of May, well into the start of the local harvest, after it bought 180,000 tonnes this week, Supplies Minister Khaled Hanafi said on Friday. Hanafi … read more
Eni an Italian multinational oil and gas company said on friday it signed a new concession agreement to operate in the South-West Melehia block in the Western Desert of Egypt, following the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) 2013 international competitive … read more
Egypt’s annual urban consumer inflation rose to an annual 9.8 percent in December from 9.1 percent the previous month, the official statistics agency CAPMAS said on Thursday. Inflation spiked in Egypt after the government slashed energy subsidies in July but … read more
Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi condemned the “terrorist act” targeting a French satirical newspaper that left 12 dead on Wednesday, pledging Cairo’s support to fight terrorism. The Egyptian leader expressed his condolences to his French counterpart Francois Hollande, the families … read more
On a recent morning I interviewed a homeless woman in Ramses, Cairo and then asked her if I could photograph her. She agreed and began to pose for me. “What are you doing?” yelled a woman close-by. “Are you taking … read more