Egypt Independent Forbes magazine reported Tuesday that business mogul Naguib Sawiris is Egypt’s biggest winner in 2016 as his net fortune increased by US$700 million to reach US$3.7 billion in total. According to a report published on Tuesday by Forbes, … read more
By Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) – Annual consumer price inflation in Egypt’s cities soared to a second straight eight-year high in December, hitting 23.3 percent on the back of the government’s decision to float the pound, effectively halving its value. Core … read more
By Aswat Masriya CAIRO, Jan 11 (Aswat Masriya) – Cairo Criminal Court upheld on Wednesday decision to ban three non-governmental organisation directors from dealing with their assets. The defendants include director of Nazra for Feminist Studies Mozn Hassan, director od … read more
South Sinai’s Security Directorate has decided to expand security measures by requiring all travellers heading to the governorate to present proof of hotel bookings at security checkpoints, the body’s head Ahmed El-Tayyel confirmed on Tuesday to Ahram Online. According to … read more
Egypt’s president and head of British secret intelligence service stressed importance of enhancing security cooperation to combat high rate of terrorist attacks Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met on Monday with head of the Britain’s secret intelligence service Alex Younger. … read more
Egyptian law-maker Mostafa Bakry presented on Monday an official letter to parliament speaker Ali Abdel-Aal demanding that the nationality of Egypt’s former vice president Mohamed ElBaradei be revoked for “inciting against the Egyptian nation.” Bakry accused the Nobel laureate of … read more
The Supreme Judicial Council ordered on Monday a gag on publishing news related to judges and the judiciary on websites and digital outlets, according to state media. The decision, which was published on several news outlets, stated that the council … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Ministry of Planning Monitoring and Administrative Reform (MPMAR) is preparing a study to raise the minimum wage limit for state civil servants in the fiscal year 2017/ 2018 to LE1,500. An official source with the ministry said that … read more
Eight policemen were killed and at least 10 injured in an attack on a North Sinai checkpoint in the early hours of Monday, a security source told Al-Ahram Arabic news website. The interior ministry has yet to issue a statement … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anany has said that the ministry is focusing on neglected archaeological places to be put on the tourist map, adding that the ministry depends on self-efforts in restoration. The first yet biggest project to document … read more