Egypt’s foreign minister warned last week that Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea have cost the country more than $9 billion in lost Suez Canal revenue, an economic blow now tied to broader U.S.-led efforts to reshape global trade routes. Speaking in...
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Egypt Draws a Red Line on Nile Rights in GERD Dispute
Egypt is insisting that Nile water security is an uncompromising national priority, with the country’s leadership rejecting any attempts at political bargaining on its access to the river. The latest remarks, delivered by Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly at...
Egypt’s Fuel Price Hike Deepens Economic Strain Amid IMF Reforms
Egypt has raised domestic fuel prices sharply as part of a multi-faceted effort to stabilize the country's economy amidst persistent fiscal pressure and regional turbulence. Effective October 17, 2025, all grades of gasoline, diesel, and compressed natural gas used in...
Egypt: Challenged Energy Sector Faces Another Brutal Summer
Egypt faces a deepening energy crisis as natural gas production crashes 39%, forcing a return to costly LNG imports and the unpopular decision to use polluting fuel oil. With multinationals like Chevron exiting failed exploration blocks and summer blackouts looming,...
U.S. Trade Policy Is Accelerating China–North Africa Economic and Defense Engagement
U.S. trade tariffs are accelerating China’s push into developing economies, with North Africa emerging as a key frontier. From a $265 million phosphate plant in Egypt to multi-billion-dollar industrial agreements in Algeria and renewed commercial diplomacy in Libya,...
Syria’s New Ruler Faces Jihadist Rebellion and Internal Strife
Ahmed Al-Charaa, once a top jihadist leader, now rules Syria after toppling Bashar al-Assad. But his grip on power is fragile. While rebranding himself as a moderate, he faces opposition from the Islamic State, which sees him as an apostate, and from former allies who...
How Egypt’s road infrastructure investments are ruinous and destructive
Photo by Mostnir Shady Ahmed: In the decade since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seized power, Egypt has built dozens...
Egypt: Sandstorm brings down billboard in Cairo, kills one
One person was killed and five others were injured Thursday when a billboard collapsed in a major thoroughfare as a...
Egypt replants mangrove ‘treasure’ to fight climate change impacts
By Bahira Amin: On Egypt's Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly planted mangroves, part of a programme to...
Environment: Rights and environmental groups say Egypt is not fit to host major climate summit
A month before Egypt hosts the UN climate change conference, Cairo is finalising the list of world leaders coming as...
Egypt: As it prepares for major climate summit, Egypt criticized for “growing repression of dissent”
Egyptian authorities "have continued to stifle freedoms" in the year since launching a national human rights strategy,...
Egypt: Rights activists decry choice of Egypt to host next environmental summit
Human Rights Watch criticised Monday the choice of Egypt as host for the next climate summit, warning the government...
Egypt: Looming environment disaster in the Red Sea
By Bassem Aboualabass: Standing on a boat bobbing gently in the Red Sea, Egyptian diving instructor Mohamed Abdelaziz...
Egypt inks deal with Chinese Covid vaccine maker to manufacture a billion doses per year
Egypt said Wednesday it plans to manufacture one billion doses a year of China's Sinovac vaccine, claiming it would...
Egypt: UN sees ray of hope in talks over controversial Ethiopian dam
An agreement on Ethiopia's controversial Nile River dam is possible, the UN said Thursday, urging "trust, transparency...
Egypt: More tension in Egypt after Ethiopia resumes filling of its giant dam
The conflict over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile Ethiopia's construction of a massive dam on a...
Egypt seeks to appease concern over impact of Ethiopian dam on water supply
Egypt's foreign minister has said that moves by Ethiopia to resume filling its vast dam on the Nile in the coming...
Egypt angry at Ethiopia after Ethiopian diplomat spoke of Egypt’s internal problems
Egypt's foreign ministry said it has summoned Ethiopia's top diplomat in Cairo over comments by an Addis Ababa...
Egypt: More unrest in Egypt with explosion of gas pipeline supplying El Arish
A blast hit a gas pipeline in Egypt's restive North Sinai region Thursday, a security source told AFP. "An explosion...
Egypt’s crumbling infrastructure: three killed in building collapse in Alexandria
Three people died on Wednesday when a dilapidated building collapsed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a security...
Egypt: Impasse in talks over Ethiopia dam
Sudan said Wednesday the latest round of talks with Egypt and Ethiopia over Addis Ababa's controversial dam on the...
Egypt: Impasse in talks over Nile dam. Sudan threatens to withdraw
Egypt on Tuesday called for a suspension of meetings with Ethiopia on Addis Ababa's massive dam construction project...
Egypt: Nile dam talks getting complicated, experiencing deadlock
Egypt said Saturday that tripartite talks with Ethiopia and Sudan over a controversial mega-dam on the River Nile were...
Egypt: No progress in Nile dam negotiations with Ethiopia
Cairo, June 9, 2020 - Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi strongly rebuked Ethiopia on Tuesday, accusing Addis...
Egypt: Ethiopia Nile dam crisis intensifies
Addis Ababa, May 18, 2020 - Ethiopia sees no reason to delay filling its controversial mega-dam despite warnings from...