The US promised Egypt incentives to approve the Renaissance Dam Agreement
Egyptian diplomatic sources have said that Washington paid incentives to Egypt and Ethiopia to reach an agreement on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. According to these sources, the Egyptian delegation participating in negotiations for the Renaissance Dam in Washington received American…
British tourists return to Sharm el-Sheikh after flight ban
Two British flights have arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, the first English charter flights since a 2015 ban was enforced following the bombing of a Russian airplane. One came from London Gatwick Airport with 184 passengers and one from…
Arms deals buy Italy`s silence on Regeni case
In conjunction with the fourth anniversary of the murder of the Italian researcher Giulio Regeni in Egypt by the regime of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Cairo is preparing for major military cooperation with Rome. The Egyptian navy is planning to…
Egypt army ranks 9th in the world despite weak economy
The Egyptian army has ranked ninth in the world in the classification of global fire power for the year 2020, jumping up three places from the previous year when it ranked twelfth. Although many Egyptians are celebrating this, others have…
Mubarak`s party comes back to life to serve al-Sisi
The National Security Agency (internal intelligence affiliated with the Interior Ministry) has revitalised the dissolved National Party, which was ruling the country during the previous president, Hosni Mubarak. National Party members have been merged with the Home Future Party in…
Controversy over interview with detained Al Jazeera correspondent
The appearance of the Al Jazeera reporter detained in Egypt, Mahmoud Hussein, in a video clip during a report broadcast by the Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath TV channels has caused widespread controversy. Hussein, in custody since the end of 2016, appeared…
Shell latest company to sell its assets in Egypt
Shell’s Egypt Board Chairman Khaled Kassem has announced that his company Shell is still open to receiving offers from potential buyers of the company’s onshore upstream assets in Egypt’s Western Desert. Shell is the latest international company to sell its…
Cairo hints it’s not satisfied with US Renaissance Dam agreement
The Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, has acknowledged that the agreement reached under American auspices on the Renaissance Dam, which Ethiopia is building on the Nile, is not complete. This came in televised remarks: “There were different visions among countries…
Exclusive: Egypt’s coronavirus quarantine ‘chaotic,’ says doctor
On January 30 Mahmoud Khedr, a doctor at one of north Cairo’s hospitals, was surprised when a panel from the Ministry of Health asked him to travel to Marsa Matruh on the western border of Egypt near Libya on a…
Why did armed groups target the Egypt-Israel gas pipeline?
The echoes of the bombing of the gas pipeline linking Egypt and Israel by masked militants did not stop at the Bir al-Abd area in North Sinai Governorate. That explosion raised widespread questions and controversy about a return of attacks…
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