Egypt‘s annual urban consumer inflation slowed to 9.1 percent in November from 11.8 percent in the previous month, the official statistics agency CAPMAS said on Wednesday, in a boost for the government as it tries to restore economic stability. Inflation … read more
An explosive device went off in Cairo’s Abbasiya district, close to downtown Ramses Square, on Tuesday, without any casualties. The improvised bomb detonated while explosive experts were attempting to dismantle it upon receiving reports from local residents, Al-Ahram’s Arabic news … read more
Egypt will not accept any exaggerations in security demands around embassies, the foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday, following announcements that two diplomatic missions in Cairo had closed their doors for security reasons. The decision of the British embassy to … read more
The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Tuesday jailed political activist Ahmed Douma to three years in prison and a 10-thousand Egyptian pound fine for insulting court. Douma is facing trial alongside 268 others for taking part in the “cabinet clashes” … read more
Unidentified assailants fired at a police car on an agricultural road in Sharqiya early Tuesday, killing a police officer and injuring two policemen. A security source told Aswat Masriya that the policemen were driving on the Cairo-Belbeis Agricultural Road for … read more
Egyptian security forces haven’t received any reports of threats against foreign embassies in Cairo, despite a spate of closures for security concerns, Reuters’ Aswat Masriya reported on Monday. Cairo Security Director Aly El-Demerdash said neither the foreign ministry nor embassies … read more
The German embassy in Cairo will close its visa issuing department on Thursday to hold a workshop and not for security concerns that have driven a number of western embassies to close in recent days, the embassy’s media advisor told … read more
The cast of El-Mestakhabi, a TV show on private satellite station Al-Qahera Wal Nas, issued a statement stressing its “professionalism” in its investigative coverage of a Cairo bathhouse where men allegedly pay for private gay sex parties. The statement came … read more
The United States has not changed its “security posture” on Egypt, state department spokesperson Jen Psaki has said. “We’re continuing to monitor developments, and Egypt will calibrate our security posture in accordance with the security situation on the ground,” Psaki … read more
The Fayoum Criminal Court sentenced on Monday six Muslim Brotherhood leaders to eight years in absentia, and 22 others to 3 to 17 years on charges of violence following the dispersal of two pro-Mohamed Mursi sit-ins in August 2013. Seven others … read more