University of Minnesota junior Nailah Taman hoped to study abroad in Cairo next spring, but recent national travel warnings could prevent her from going. In response to ongoing conflict in Egypt and Syria, the University is monitoring its study abroad … read more
The US government faces billions of dollars in potential costs if it decides to cancel foreign military aid to Egypt, a senior Pentagon official told Reuters on Wednesday. Richard Genaille, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency, said … read more
Telecom Egypt CEO Mohamed al-Nawawy announced Wednesday the company will be expanding into the mobile network industry, launching a fourth network on the market within three weeks. Al-Naway expects to attract some 1.5 million subscribers during the first stage of … read more
Two conscripts were killed and at least eight were wounded when unknown assailants attacked an army vehicle with RPGs in Sinai on Wednesday, security sources said. The wounded were transferred to a local hospital to receive medical attention, the sources … read more
Qatari-owned news channel Al-Jazeera has accused Egyptian authorities of jamming the network’s satellite signals, as the broadcaster kept up its critical coverage of Cairo’s crackdown on Islamists. “Independent experts” used by Al-Jazeera have determined where the jamming was coming from, … read more
An Egyptian policeman was shot dead and another wounded on Wednesday at a checkpoint in the southern town of Aswan, the Interior Ministry said, in what appeared to be a revenge killing. The attack was carried out by relatives of … read more
The minister for industry and foreign trade, Mounir Fakhry Abdel-Nour, has stressed that the number of Egyptian factories that have closed in recent months is not in the thousands as some reports – and government officials – have suggested. The … read more
An Egyptian doctor once close to Osama bin Laden is bringing together multiple al-Qaida-inspired militant groups in Egypt’s Sinai to fight the country’s military, as the lawless peninsula emerges as a new theatre for jihad, according to Egyptian intelligence and … read more
Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Mohamed Abu Shady announced an initiative on Tuesday to reduce the prices of consumer goods in the last ten days of each month by 40 percent so as to alleviate the impact of the … read more
Suez’s military court sentenced 11 people to 25 years in prison and 45 others to five years on Tuesday for violent events that took place in August upon the state’s dispersal of two sit-ins held by supporters of ousted President … read more