A homemade IED exploded in the north of Cairo governorate of Gharbiya on Monday, but no causalities or deaths were reported. Experts were able to defuse the bomb which was found near Samanoud Court. Bomb explosions and attacks targeting security forces … read more
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb said power outages will be resolved in 45 days when new power stations will start adding 1,880 MW to the service. During a visit to Qena on Sunday, the prime minister also said the supply police … read more
One security officer and seven others were killed in two successive explosions around security areas in Egypt‘s Sinai region, near the border with Israel, the Interior Ministry and security officials said. Egypt has been hit by an Islamist insurgency led by Sinai-based … read more
A Cairo court has accepted the appeal presented by ex-PM Hisham Qandil and reversed his one-year jail sentence. In September 2013 the Cairo Misdemeanour Court upheld a ruling against former Prime Minister Qandil sentencing him to one year in prison … read more
Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics said on Friday that 26.3 percent of Egypt’s population lives in poverty. The rural parts of Upper Egypt are the most impoverished areas as 49 percent of their population cannot provide their … read more
Gharbiya Governorate villages witnessed over 10-hour power outage causing the workshops of spinning and weaving factories to shut down. Residents complained over the failure of the government to speedily resolve the crisis, criticizing the electricity company’s policy in reducing electricity … read more
Petroleum Minister Sherif Ismail said the power outages are a result of chronic problems that have been prevailing for a long time, not just recently. “We are working on providing natural gas and diesel fuel to power stations so as … read more
South Sinai police arrested Friday a driver for allegedly raping a Russian tourist, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported. Police received a complaint that a Russian tourist, 36, along with her husband were taking a tourism company-owned vehicle back to their … read more
German tour operators said holidaymakers may once again book trips to Egypt‘s Sharm el-Sheikh after the German foreign office eased travel advice for the destination. TUI Germany, part of Europe’s largest tour operator, TUI Travel , said customers would be able … read more
Security forces in North Sinai aborted on Thursday an attempt to smuggle 20 Grad rockets from Gaza through tunnels in Rafah. Violent clashes broke out between security forces on one hand and Egyptian and Palestinian extremists on the other as … read more