Tag: Sinai

Egypt: Canada limits embassy services due to insecurity, British embassy closed

December 9, 2014

Canada has announced that its embassy will be limiting its services in the country due to security concerns. There are fears that many other western ... Read More

Egypt: World Bank and IMF meet government officials

November 13, 2014

The World Bank Group and Egypt will be discussing means of improving the country’s investment climate and competitiveness in order to boost economic growth. Anabel ... Read More

Egypt resolved to fight terrorism, “external support”

October 27, 2014

Egypt decreed a state of emergency in north and central Sinai for the next three months following the terrorist attack at El-Arish checkpoint that killed ... Read More

Egypt : Giant $4 billion Suez Canal II project announced

August 6, 2014

President Al Sisi has announced that a “giant project” will be launched at a tune of $4billion for the construction of a canal parallel to ... Read More

Egypt: terrorist attacks are waging against the interim government

February 21, 2014

Hisham Zaazou, the Egyptian minister of tourism has reacted to reports of threats that emerged on tweeter and linked to Jamaat Ansar Beit al-Maqdis that ... Read More

Egypt : Tourism industry gets another fatal bomb attack

February 17, 2014

A believed-to-be terrorist actwas carried out on Sunday when a bomb denoted inside or beside a tourist bus in Egypt's Sinai headed to Israel. It ... Read More

Egypt:Running or not Running for Presidency, but Rumors Keep on Going

February 7, 2014

Reports by Kuwaiti Daily claiming that Egypt’s Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is going to run for presidency were denied by the military’s spokesman Colonel Ahmed ... Read More

Egypt: the political roadmap commitment

September 18, 2013

Pentagon has announced that the United States has once again called on the interim Egyptian government to progress with plans aimed at organizing new elections. ... Read More

Egypt establishing Sinai buffer zone

September 2, 2013

The Egyptian military has begun operations to set up a 500meter wide and 10kilometre long buffer zone on its border with Gaza. Bulldozers have knocked ... Read More

Libya and Egypt eye Free Trade Zone

May 17, 2013

Shortly after Prime Minister Ali Zeidan’s return from an overnight visit to Egypt, a source close to his cabinet have revealed that the visit was ... Read More