The Ministry of Tourism plans to implement a new stimulus programme from November, subsidising filled seats for up to a year at various airports across Egypt. The programme will cover airports in South Sinai, the Red Sea, Luxor, Aswan, North … read more
The World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Report evaluates how easy it is to do business in each country, and ranked Egypt at place 112. When talking about a global scale, Singapore is the country that toped the “Ease of … read more
Security authorities say they are currently questioning five people who returned from Syria after training with Islamic State militants and planned to carry out attacks targeting police and army forces. The suspects gave detailed information about their trainers who taught … read more
Mohamed Soltan, the Egyptian-American son of Muslim Brotherhood leader Salah Soltan, fell into a sugar coma on Sunday after 281 days on hunger strike. Spokesperson for the Soltan family, Sara Mohamed, said Sunday that a prison visitor witnessed Soltan’s transferral … read more
Egypt’s top prosecutor ordered on Sunday the detention of 35 suspects “affiliated with the Musilm Brotherhood and the Islamic State fighters in Syria” for 15 days pending investigation. Hisham Barakat, the prosecutor general, is accusing the detained suspects of committing … read more
Ten Sohag University students died Sunday from a accident on Kawamel road in the Upper Egypt governorate of Sohag. Five students were also severerly injured as a van they were passengers in fell into a dried sluiceway when the driver … read more
About 600 Egyptians have been refused entry to Libya on arrival at Tripoli’s Matiga airport due to invalid visas, an airport official said on Saturday. The airport, like the rest of the Libyan capital, is under the control of an … read more
Egypt signed $350 million worth of financing agreements with Saudi Arabia on Saturday aimed at upgrading its power grid and securing imports of petroleum products as it seeks to end its worst energy crisis in decades. Power cuts have become … read more
Egyptian national security officials have discovered a local “terrorist cell” whose members received training in Syria, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday. A statement on the ministry’s Facebook page said the cell members returned to Egypt after receiving training on … read more
The Qasr al-Nil Misdemeanour Court sentenced on Saturday eight men to three years in prison on charges of inciting debauchery and violating public decency after appearing in a Youtube video depicting an alleged homosexual marriage ceremony. The video, titled “Egypt’s … read more