This month of June 2024, the Egyptian population reached the record number 106.4 million people. Egyptians added 126,000 babies in just one month. Dividing this by 30 days, fetches 4,200 babies per day. The Egyptian government does not like this trend because this...
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War in Gaza forces former Middle East foes to seek reconciliation
By Mondafrique: The war in Gaza is forcing feuding States in the Middle East and in the Gulf to seek the path of reconciliations. Faced with President Biden’s inability to impose a red line on Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the four most influential...
Egypt: One killed, six arrested in gun battle on Egypt-Israel border
A gunfire broke out near Nitzana, Israel, along the border crossing separating Egypt and Israel. The incident, which involved more than a dozen people, resulted in the death of one person. Six people were arrested. The Egyptian authorities insist that the incident was...
Egypt’s economy hit hard by Houthis’ attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea
The US and the UK hitting Houthi targets in Yemen is largely the result of a sense of panic taking place in commercial and business circles. The Houthis have clearly identified that there is a choke point that they can squeeze even more to get their positions heard....
Egypt: After wishing each other a happy new year, Egyptians see price hikes that will make 2024 not such a happy year
Bread has always been a source of concern for rulers and leaders. When their prices increase, watch out for the public reaction. In history, bread riots brought down rulers who dared to make bread or its byproducts like flour hard to reach. In modern times, we often...
Egypt: Italy sets new trial for Egyptians accused of student’s murder
A court in Italy on Monday set a February date for a new trial in absentia of four Egyptian security officers accused...
Turkey welcomes Palestinian cancer patients after they entered Egypt
More than two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, who had crossed from Gaza into Egypt, arrived in Turkey for treatment...
Egypt opens Rafah Border, to allow safe passage to foreign nationals
Egypt will help evacuate "about 7,000" foreigners and dual nationals from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, the foreign...
Egypt’s crumbling train infrastructure: Nearly dozen killed in another accident north of Cairo
By Farid Farid - A train accident north of Cairo on Sunday left 11 people dead and 98 others injured, Egypt's health...
MENA region more vulnerable to Covid-19 with the start of Ramadan
The World Health Organization expressed concern Wednesday that the Covid-19 pandemic could worsen in the Middle East...
Egypt: Journalists released from prison
Egyptian photojournalist Hossam el-Sayed and his wife Solafa Magdy, an independent journalist, have been released...
Egypt bus-truck crash kills 20: officials
Cairo, April 14, 2021 (AFP) - Twenty people were killed Wednesday in Egypt when a bus collided with a truck carrying...
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood’s Mahmud Ezzat gets life sentence
Egypt on Thursday sentenced Mahmud Ezzat, the 76-year-old top leader of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, to life...
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan launch another attempt at negotiations over Nile dam
Foreign ministers from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan held talks in Kinshasa on Sunday over Addis Ababa's contested giant...
Egypt: Negotiations over Ethiopian dam project going nowhere
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Tuesday that Ethiopia's enormous dam project, upstream on the Nile,...
Egypt: Eight arrested over train collision in Tahta that killed 18 people
Egypt has ordered the arrest of eight people over a collision between two trains that killed 18 people last week, the...
Egypt: Suez Canal reopens after container ship refloated
By Hager Harabech with Mona Salem in Cairo - Suez, Egypt, March 29, 2021 (AFP) - The MV Ever Given was refloated and...
Egypt: Container ship still stuck in Suez Canal
By Mohamed Abouelenen - Egyptian authorities decided Sunday that more tugboats will be needed to free a mammoth...
Egypt: Building collapse in Cairo claims 25 lives
Egyptian state media said Sunday that at least 25 people were killed in a 10-storey building collapse in Cairo the day...
Egypt: Russia marketing its Northern Sea route as alternative to Suez Canal
Russia cheekily pushed the Northern Sea Route on Thursday as an "alternative" to Egypt's Suez Canal after a huge...
Egypt: Single container ship cripples Suez Canal traffic
By Farid Farid - The owners of a giant container vessel blocking the Suez Canal said Thursday they faced "extreme...
Repression: Egypt sentences activist Sanaa Seif to 18 months in prison
Egyptian political activist Sanaa Seif was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday for spreading "false...
Repression: How the Egyptian army destroyed the Sinai in the name of the “war on terror”
Egyptian troops have demolished more than 12,300 buildings in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013 in a campaign of forced...
Egypt considers critics and political opponents as terrorists, world starting to push back
By Nina Larson - Egypt must stop using anti-terrorism laws to muzzle critics and even keep them in pre-trial detention...
Egypt’s dilapidated infrastructure: Fire at a garment factory near Cairo kills 20 workers
At least 20 people were killed and 24 others injured Thursday in a clothing factory fire on the eastern outskirts of...
Egypt continues to favor capital punishment, executes 11 people
Egyptian authorities on Tuesday executed 11 people convicted of murder, a security source said, in the latest cases of...
Egypt: Boat capsizes on Lake Mariout, nine killed
Nine people drowned and at least four were missing Tuesday after a boat chartered for a family fishing trip capsized...
Egypt-USA: Biden administration maintains support to Egypt’s Sisi, sells him more weapons
US President Joe Biden's administration on Tuedsay approved a nearly $200 million arms sale to Egypt but vowed to...
Egypt: Al-Jazeera’s Mahmoud Hussein free at last after spending four years in Egyptian prison
By Mona Salem with Gregory Walton in Doha - Egypt has freed a journalist for Qatar's Al Jazeera, a security source...
Covid-19: Vaccination campaign begins in Egypt
Egypt began its Covid-19 immunisation program Sunday, becoming one of the first countries in Africa to vaccinate its...
Egypt: Unsolved murder of Giulio Regeni continues to irk Italy
Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Monday urged Egypt to cooperate with prosecutors seeking to try four Egyptian...
Unable to govern, North African governments are using repression as their only tool in their toolbox
This week (ending 21 January 2021), Tunisia made the front pages of global media with Tunisians clashing with security...
Egypt: Decade after anti-regime protests, General Sisi neutralized opposition, killed democracy
The Muslim Brotherhood's existential fight: can it manage a comeback? The Arab Spring a decade ago gave Egypt's Muslim...
Egypt: Saudi Arabia allows Egypt to restore relations with Qatar
Egypt and Qatar agreed Wednesday to restore diplomatic relations, Egypt's foreign ministry said, after a...
Egypt: first commercial flight from Qatar to Egypt in three and a half years
The first direct flights since 2017 between Qatar and its former rivals Egypt and the UAE took to the skies on Monday,...
Egypt targets Muslim Brotherhood members, including late President Morsi, with asset seizures
An Egyptian court on Sunday ordered the seizure of assets of former president Mohamed Morsi and 88 other members of...
Egypt makes a mockery of justice: it keeps social media influencers in prison, despite acquittal
An Egyptian court Thursday prolonged the detention of two young women, accusing them of human trafficking connected to...
Egypt: How Egypt is tormenting jailed journalists
A freelance Egyptian journalist who worked for pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera and was arrested on false news and...
Egypt: Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine headed to Egypt, with late January rollout
Egypt has approved the use of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharma giant Sinopharm with its rollout to start...
Egypt: Covid-19 deaths due to shortage of oxygen in Egypt
Egypt said Sunday it had opened an investigation into the deaths of four Covid-19 patients in an intensive care unit...
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: Anger in Rome after Egypt cleared policemen in Giulio Regeni murder case
The Italian government has described as "unacceptable" a decision by Egypt's public prosecutor to clear five police...
Egypt: Seven patients killed in fire inside Obour hospital
A fire at a hospital north of Cairo on Saturday killed seven coronavirus patients, security and judicial sources said....
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: No New Year celebrations allowed this year in Egypt
Egypt has called off all New Year's celebrations in order to stem rising coronavirus cases in the country, Prime...
Egypt: Religious minorities vulnerable as court acquits men who attacked Christian woman
An Egyptian court acquitted Thursday three defendants who stripped and dragged an elderly Coptic Christian woman...
Egypt’s collective punishment of inmates
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt Thursday of imposing punitive conditions on hundreds of inmates at one of its most...
Egypt: How both the military and IS terrorize the people of Sinai
Residents of Egypt's restive North Sinai region ran for their lives when an Islamic State group affiliate occupied...