Egypt Independent EgyptAir is offering cut-rate flight tickets to a number of regional and international airports until the end of March, according to an announcement on the EgyptAir website. The offers include a 40-percent reduction on the weekly flight from … read more
Reuters Egyptian Finance Minister Amr el-Garhy said on Monday his country was expecting foreign direct investment to increase to US$13-15 billion in the 2017-18 fiscal year, after a currency flotation in November revived foreign interest. Garhy told Reuters by telephone … read more
Ola Noureldin The Global Firepower Index (GFI) ranked Egypt’s military as the 12th most powerful worldwide ahead of Isreal, Vietnam and Brazil, in a list of 126 countries with the most powerful militaries in the world for 2016. The GFI criteria ranks the … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm The Ministry of Antiquities is gearing up to complete the remainder of the excavation of the Ramses II statue using newer and safer techniques, informed sources in the ministry said. This move comes following sharp criticism about the poor method by … read more
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will arrive in Egypt on Sunday on an official visit that comes following an invitation from President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. The visit also comes for the presidents to discuss bilateral relations between them, prior to the … read more
Egypt’s army said it killed 18 “highly dangerous terrorists” in different parts of the restive North Sinai as well as arrested 37 suspects, two different statements on the army spokesman’s official Facebook page read. Army forces killed the 18 terrorist … read more
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is set to visit the United States upon invitation from his counterpart President Donald Trump the first week in April, Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Sunday. During the three-day visit, the leaders will discuss bilateral cooperation as … read more
Roman Catholic Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Egypt in the last week of April upon the invitation of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, a presidency statement said on Saturday. Pope Francis’s itinerary will include visits to Al-Azhar – the world’s foremost … read more
Egypt and Jordan are working with the Palestinian Authority to push for the establishing of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry and his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Al-Safadi said in Cairo on Thursday. The two … read more
Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak, who is under investigation over an increase in his personal wealth since 2011, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the minister of justice and the general prosecution to unfreeze EGP 61 million of his assets. … read more