The Alexandria Administrative Court upheld Sunday an earlier court decision ordering the government to reinstate police officers who were suspended for growing their beards, state-run Nile News reported. In March, then-Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim demoted 17 police officers for growing … read more
Falling to a new eight-year low, the Egyptian pound reached 6.30 to the dollar on Sunday as the central bank conducted its first currency auction in a bid to combat the shortage of dollars on the market and curb the … read more
Less than a week after touting the independence of the Cabinet and state institutions, the Freedom and Justice Party is jockeying for places in an impending Cabinet reshuffle. The party had initially nominated eight ministers, but eventually settled for three: … read more
A senior Petroleum Ministry official has said that the increased gas exports to Jordan last weekend did not affect the local supply of gas for power stations and had nothing to do with blackouts in seven governorates on Thursday. The … read more
Gamaa Islamiya’s official spokesperson, Tarek El-Zomor, told Ahram’s Arabic-language website Sunday that negotiations were ongoing to create an Islamist coalition to run for the next parliamentary elections. The coalition will exclude the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). Although … read more
Electricity was cut in Cairo and several governorates on Friday due to shortages of gas provided to the power stations. The Petroleum Ministry announced that irregular gas supply will be dealt with by using heating oil, which can meet fuel … read more
Egypt’s prosecutor-general, Talaat Abdullah, imposed a travel ban on Saturday on former President Hosni Mubarak, his wife Suzanne Thabet, his sons Alaa and Gamal and his step-daughters, among 26 figures belonging to the former regime. The list of those banned … read more
Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah issued a decree to ban a number of figures of the former Hosni Mubarak regime facing charges of corruption from leaving the country. The list of figures includes former Parliamentary and Legal Affairs Minister Moufeed Shehab, … read more
Former spokesperson of Salafi-oriented Nour Party Yousry Hammad revealed that the establishment of the new Watan party will be announced on Tuesday at al-Azhar University. In a note posted on his Facebook page on Saturday, Hammad wrote that at the … read more
Finance Minister Momtaz al-Saeed said changes to taxation, including the increased taxes on some goods, will be applied in January, following the end of a period of community dialogue. Saeed told Al-Masry Al-Youm that these changes will not harm the … read more