President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met on Sunday 9/11/2014 with Planning Minister Ashraf el-Arabi and Supply and Internal Trade Minister Khaled Hanafi.
The latest report by the Egypt-based International Development Center’s Democracy Index revealed that 643 protests, with average of 21 protests daily and one protest every hour, have took place in October, marking an increase of 130 demonstrations in September, which saw 513 protests.
Egyptian Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim met on Sunday with the German ambassador Hansjörg Haber to discuss the development of the cooperation between Egypt’s and Germany’s security apparatuses, which includes exchange of information about “terrorist elements”.
Tourist occupancies in Sharm El-Sheikh Egypt remain at the same level recorded last week, according to an official with the Egyptian Chamber of Hotels. He explained that average occupancy rates currently stand at 55%.
Egypt once again expressed its “full support for Libya’s state institutions” and asserted its full respect for the will of the Libyan people on Saturday.
The Indian capital New Delhi will hold a meeting of the second session of the Joint Commission of Commerce between Egypt and India during 10 and 11 November 2014 to discussan action plan to push increased trade between the two countries, said the Ministry of Trade and Industry in a statement Sunday.
Noose tightening around NGOs in Egypt The noose is tightening around Egypt’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs). These Egyptian NGOs — essentially what we call “nonprofits” in the US – focus on everything from human rights to other important issues. They may soon lose their independence under an old law that the new Egyptian government is bringing back to life.
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Sunday appointed new deans to seven faculties in Cairo, Ain Shams, and Tanta universities for three-year terms.
Egypt's President has ordered the formation of special court circuit for traffic law violations on Thursday, days after two mass road accidents killed 28 people, mostly minors.
The ministry of interior announced on Thursday the arrest of the truck driver believed to be responsible for the school bus crash on an agricultural road in Beheira which left 18 killed.
Egypt received a $1 billion grant from Kuwait earlier this week, an Egyptian government source said on Thursday, the latest in billions of dollars of aid to arrive from Gulf Arab allies since the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsy last year.
An appeals court referred on Thursday four defendants accused of rape to Egypt's Grand Mufti to consider their death sentences.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been chosen as Africa’s most influential leaders by Forbes Middle East, which ranked the Egyptian president 51th in its annual list of the world’s most outstanding figures.
A request to release detained hunger-striking Egyptian-American Mohamed Soltan due to his deteriorating health condition was rejected for the fourth time on Wednesday.
A human rights group has halted its activities starting Tuesday due to what it described as persecution and media attacks practiced against organizations working in the field.
The Egyptian Tax Authority’s (ETA) Independent Appeals Committee has ruled in favour of OCI NV’s subsidiary in Egypt Orascom Construction Industries (OCI). Commenting on the ruling, Nassef Sawiris issued an exclusive statement to Daily News Egypt saying that he is “grateful that ultimately justice has prevailed”.
Egypt's Deputy Foreign Minister for Human Rights Hisham Badr assured that there is no final draft for a new NGOs law and that it will be postponed until a new parliament is elected.
Egypt will host the sixth round of the Joint Egyptian-Ethiopian Ministerial Committee in 2016, stated Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Badr Abdel Atty said Monday.
An unsubstantiated statement was released Monday affirming that Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis (ABM) was pledging loyalty to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), stating that the group chose Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, known as the leader of ISIS, as its leader.
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Monday that more security and logistical measures are to be taken to evacuate the area around the Egypt-Gaza border, promising the displaced North Sinai families heavy value compensations, according to state television.
The official spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned reports of the Israeli government’s intention to build 500 housing units in East Jerusalem, describing it as a “severe defiance of International Law and the Geneva Conventions”, according to a foreign ministry statement on Monday.
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Ahram Online visits the Hanging Church, one of Egypt’s oldest churches, after 16 years of restoration.