President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued on Saturday new amendments to the Traffic Law, ensuring harsher punishments for the law’s violations. Presidential spokesman Ihab Badawi said the amendments come amid the recent increase in road accidents and the injuries and deaths … read more
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he wished the imprisoned Al Jazeera journalists, convicted of aiding “a terrorist group”, had been deported and not put on trial, a newspaper reported on Monday. Sisi’s comments sparked hope for the family of … read more
Local and imported cigarettes and alcohol will cost more as of Monday, after Egypt’s president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi decided to raise sales taxes on both, according to the state’s official gazette. Under the new taxes, a pack of local cigarettes … read more
Egypt slashed its natural gas subsidies to several industries increasing gas prices by 30-75 percent, part of a broad government strategy to cut back subsidies that eat up to a fifth of its annual budget. The new cut that was announced … read more
Explosives experts at the interior ministry managed to defuse more than 150 explosive devices in different governorates over the past three months, according to the ministry’s official spokesman. General Hany Abdel-Latif, speaking at a press conference on Friday, said … read more
The government has approved a plan to gradually remove electricity subsidies within five years, Egyptian Minister of Electricity said in a press conference on Thursday. Mohamed Shaker said that the removal of subsidies will appear in the prices of consumption … read more
Egypt was set to raise mainstream fuel prices by up to 78 percent from midnight on Friday, an Oil Ministry source told Reuters, in a long-awaited step to cut energy subsidies to ease the burden on its swelling budget deficit. Food … read more
The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) condemned the arrest of its spokesperson and leading member Magdy Qurqur, accusing authorities of exercising violence on public figures who share opposing views even when they express them through peaceful means. In a … read more
The number of injured people in a train blast that occurred in Alexandria on Thursday rose to nine. A bomb exploded late on Thursday night in a passenger car on a train on the Abu-Qir line. The bomb was planted … read more
Egypt’s Planning Minister Ashraf al-Arabi said on Wednesday the government was about to raise prices on most petroleum products, a move he said would push inflation into double digits. “We will raise energy prices within days,” he told Aswat Masriya, … read more