Egypt

It was a week full of "Leave, Sisi!" What does Abdel Fattah el-Sisi want from the Egyptian people when he comes out with his lack of charisma, promising everyone...

Egypt plans to borrow two billion dollars through sovereign financing instruments for the first time, in addition to raising more than $750 million through green bonds in June. The...

There is no doubt that the vast majority of Egypt's Christian citizens support President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his regime. They were the first to give their backing to...

The Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water denied on Sunday Israeli media reports claiming that it had agreed a US brokered deal to import gas "indirectly" from the occupation...

An Egyptian MP has suggested criminalising suicide following increased coverage of people taking their own lives in the North African country. Deputy Chair of the Freedom Party Ahmed Mahana...

The director of the Arab Network for Human Rights has told The New Arab's Arabic language service that his organisation has suspended its activities due to an unprecedented increase...

The Interior Ministry in Cairo has claimed that an Egyptian man removed from a Sudanese flight after the aircraft made an emergency landing in Luxor is "terrorist", Shadooff news...

As soon as the month of January comes upon us, the memories of the Arab Spring are revived, despite all the painful blows that followed as the collective conscience...

UK and Egyptian officials vowed Saturday to cooperate on climate change as the current and incoming presidencies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of...

A project to expand parts of the Suez Canal is expected to be completed after two years of work in July 2023, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority...

Over the past few days, the arrest of the renowned Egyptian businessman, Mohamed Al-Amin, has been trending on social media. The media mogul who founded CBC network in 2011,...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, despite ending the state of emergency by Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in October 2021, the Egyptian government attached emergency decree provisions to other...

After being forced to give up his Egyptian citizenship, Ramy Shaath has been released by the regime of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. The activist in the Boycott, Divestment and...

Investigations by the Egyptian authorities have exonerated the country's health minister, Hala Zayed, in a bribery case involving senior ministry officials, local media reported yesterday. The minister's ex-husband, Mohamed...

A complaint has been filed against Tunisian President Kais Saied and measures he has taken giving him executive powers in the North African state. Activists in Tunisia, Europe, America...

Egypt is developing the country's mining industry by establishing a gold refinery in the eastern desert region, the Petroleum Minister, Tarek El-Molla, announced yesterday. "Work is underway to implement the...

Palestinian Zeyad Abu Odah watched with a smile as his four-storey house, destroyed in an Israeli air strike in last May's fierce Israeli attack on Gaza, was slowly being...

Prominent Egyptian women's rights activist Amal Fathy has been sentenced to a year in prison for posting a video on Facebook in which she criticised authorities' failure to protect...

Egypt has spent $400 billion over the past seven years to tackle poverty, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said yesterday. Speaking at the World Youth Forum, Al-Sisi said: "There were...

Reconstructing Gaza needs more than the $500 million offered by Egypt following the Israeli offensive between 11-21 May 2021, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said yesterday. Speaking at a panel of the World Youth Forum (WYF) conference in the Egyptian Red Sea...

At least two people died, and eight others were missing yesterday after a truck slid off a ferry and into the River Nile. There were 24 farm labourers in...

Egypt's president has criticised Europe for refusing to take in refugees claiming that his own country has taken in millions of people. "I'm talking about huge numbers," he said...

The Egyptian Public Prosecution Service accepted yesterday the petition filed by political activist Mamdouh Hamza against the inclusion of his name on the state's list of "terrorists". The move...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has asked his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for help in opening contact channels with Israel, Al Arab Al Jadeed revealed yesterday. According to...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday claimed that all human rights violations in the country highlighted by national and international rights groups are "lies", Anadolu reported. Al-Sisi's remarks came during a...

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, on Tuesday, discussed with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, the Palestinian political developments as well as bilateral relations, Anadolu News Agency reports. Hussein Al-Sheikh,...

The arrival of the political activist, the Egyptian of Palestinian origin, Ramy Shaath, to France, after he was deported from the Egyptian prisons, stripped of the nationality of the...

A preliminary court hearing for the reopening of the Giulio Regeni trial was held in Rome yesterday. Regeni was an Italian postgraduate student at Cambridge University conducting research in...

One of the most famous Egyptian human rights organisations has said it will suspend its operations and activities after 18 years citing the complete absence of the rule of...

Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, on Monday, called for dialogue to resolve world crises and achieve peace, Anadolu News Agency reports. Sisi made the call as he opened a...

Egypt will be faced with disaster once the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is fully operational, the Human Development Report in Egypt for 2021 has said. The publication, issued...

Human rights organisations and activists yesterday welcomed Egypt's decision to release 15 female detainees after they spent two years in pretrial detention. The Belady – An Island for Humanity...