Saudi Arabia and Israel do not share official diplomatic ties, but the two countries have started to normalize relations in recent years, particularly in terms of Iranian foreign policy In the latest display of warming [ More … ]
Badrawy Private Hospital said the blaze was caused by an electrical fault in an air conditioning generator in intensive care unit A fire at Badrawy Hospital, a private hospital located northeast of the Egyptian coastal [ More … ]
Ethiopia will start filling its $5 billion hydroelectric dam on the Nile River in two weeks, the Ethiopian government said, according to Anadolu Agency. The announcement came on Saturday, one day after an online summit [ More … ]
The loan will focus first on health and social spending The IMF noted Cairo had ‘a strong track record’ of implementing economic reforms! The IMF board on Friday approved a one-year, $5.2 billion financing package [ More … ]
Libya’s National Oil Corporation said fighters of Russian mercenaries entered the Sharara oil field on Thursday in an attempt to block production there. Production in Sharara had only this month resumed after months of closure [ More … ]
A UN official has said that he was disappointed because the UN Security Council is not ready to help ease tensions over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, reported the New Khaleej. The UNESCO Chair on International [ More … ]
The Egyptian Prime Minister had stated in a statement that the rise in numbers of COVID-19 deaths was due to the absence and “unpunctuality of some doctors”. The Egyptian Medical Syndicate on Tuesday decried remarks [ More … ]
Prominent Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif sister of imprisoned activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has been abducted outside the prosecutor general’s office in Cairo, according to a relative. Seif had been visiting the building to lodge an [ More … ]
A message leaked from the detainees in the infamous high-security Torah Prison-992, known as the Al-Aqrab “Scorpion” Prison has revealed that there are about 300 coronavirus infections among inmates amid complete negligence from the prison [ More … ]
The Libyan parliament called on the government to be at full readiness against “aggression” from Egypt, denouncing recent comments by Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi that his army could intervene in the war-torn country, reported Anadolu Agency. [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have sparked controversy on social networking sites over issuance of a ban on addressing four currently circulated topics: Sinai, Renaissance Dam, Coronavirus, and Libya. Egypt’s highest media regulatory body, an official state arm [ More … ]
Activists decry a $1.2bn arms sale of two frigates to Egypt even the 2016 murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni near Cairo remains unresolved. Meanwhile, Regeni’s family feels ‘betrayed’ by Italy government over the move [ More … ]
A senior Turkish delegation headed by Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli to hold talks with Libya’s UN recognised government. Cavusoglu was accompanied by Finance Minister Berat Albayrak and intelligence [ More … ]
The first anniversary of the passing of late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is an occasion for reflection and soul searching. It evokes memories of his life and times, which culminated as Egypt’s first democratically elected [ More … ]
Ethiopia has been accused of ‘intransigence’ which has to lead to the stalling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations, Egypt’s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation said. Mohamed Abdel Ati ruled out a [ More … ]
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