(Cairo) – Egypt is out to highlight its plan to offer support to Sudan in the coming days until the Arab-African state gets over the difficulties of its current transition. During a visit to Sudanese capital Khartoum on August 17,...
(Cairo) – Egypt says it has already started taking measures to ensure that shipments of wheat coming from Russia will not contain any radioactive materials. “We have already declared the state of emergency in preparation for implementing the measures,” said...
(Cairo) Preparations are being made in Egypt for the reinstitution of the senate, almost nine years after it was cancelled out in the aftermath of the 2011 uprising that ended the Hosni Mubarak autocracy. The House of Deputies (parliament) is...
Amendments approved recently by the Egyptian parliament to Egypt’s Civil Society Law have polarized civil society activists amid calls for granting the civil society more freedoms. The amendments, approved by the parliament on July 14, institute fines in case of...
(Cairo) – Gulf states are becoming unsafe for the members of the Muslim Brotherhood, after Kuwait repatriated eight members of the Islamist organization, almost the largest in the Arab region with branches everywhere in the world, to Egypt. On July...
(Cairo) – Egypt gets ready to receive the largest shipment of train carriages in its history. The carriages, to be manufactured by a consortium of Hungarian and Russian companies, is important for Egypt’s ongoing overhaul of the railways, which have...
(Cairo) An administrative court will rule on April 27 in a lawsuit on whether the nation’s Salafists, a group of ultraorthodox Muslims, should be allowed to preach at the mosques. The lawsuit was filed by well-known lawyer Samir Sabri who...
Egypt’s removal of fuel subsidies rids the state budget of a heavy burden, instead transferring the burden to tens of millions of consumers. “The fuel subsidy removal will likely have inflationary effects,” said economist Abdel Qadir Ramadan. “This means that...
A new study is warning that Egypt’s population explosion will worsen in the future, with the Arab country’s population projected to increase by 60 million in the next 30 years. Egypt’s population has already surpassed 100 million, but the study,...
(Cairo) – Speculation is rife in Egypt on the course the Muslim Brotherhood, which used to be the Arab world’s most vibrant Islamist group, will follow in the future, after the tremendous change that happened in the fortunes of the...