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The Arab League holds this Tuesday, June 15, in Doha, Qatar, an extraordinary meeting of Foreign ministers on the Ethiopian Great Renaissance Dam. Sudan and Egypt requested the holding of this emergency meeting as they want to warn of the “risk” Ethiopia’s unilateral actions pose to the region, since trilateral talks stall. A former adviser […]
Direct Russian charter flights to Egypt’s Red Sea resorts will resume in the “near future”, Russian deputy FM Mikhail Bogdanov announced amid high hopes in Egypt for more arrivals of Russian holidaymaker, Russian news agency TASS reports. Russia halted direct flights from Russian cities to Red Sea resorts in the wake of 2015 crash of […]
Egyptian officials and media have reacted angrily after Ethiopia announced Sunday it will build next year more than 100 dams aside the current disputed Nile River hydro dam, Anadolu news agency reports. Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed Sunday indicated that his country will build during the next fiscal year at least 100 medium and small dams […]
Egypt is targeting between $6 billion and $9 billion in tourism revenues in 2021 as the country reports a rise in arrivals of Eastern European and Gulf holidaymakers, Bloomberg reports quoting tourism minister Khaled El Anany. Late last month, Deputy Minister Ghada Shalaby said Egypt is expecting to generate between $6 billion and $7 billion […]
Egypt and Sudan will hold a joint military drill dubbed Guardians of the Nile amid crisis over Renaissance Dam project by Ethiopia. Land, air and sea forces of both countries will take part in the drill scheduled May 26-31, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) reported citing the Sudanese army. The joint drill aims to exchange military […]
Egypt is set to build the largest petrochemical complex in Africa and the Middle East to refine and produce a range of petroleum and chemical products, Zawya reports. The project will cost $7.5 billion and will cover an area of 3.56 million square meters located in the Ain Sokhna Industrial Zone of the Suez Canal […]
The Egyptian government has reiterated its firm support to Morocco’s territorial integrity, praising the Kingdom’s serious and credible efforts seeking for a peaceful resolution of the Sahara regional conflict. During his videoconference talks held Thursday with Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita, Egypt’s top diplomat Sameh Chokri briefed the Moroccan minister on latest developments of the […]
Edita Food Industries (EFID), one of Egypt’s largest food companies, will inaugurate a production factory in Morocco by end of this year, a top official of the company told Almal News. Hani Barzi, Chairman of the company told the media that the factory was planned for last year but the pandemic and the lockdown […]
The African Development Bank, AfDB, will extend Egypt a credit line of €145 million to help the country improve the railway system safety and to increase the network capacity. “The planned upgrades are expected to benefit low-income Egyptians, about 40 percent of the population, who rely on trains as an affordable mode of transport,” the […]
About 500,000 tourists visited Egypt during the first quarter of 2021, bringing to the country between $600-800 million in tourism revenues, reports say. Egypt re-opened its border for international flights in June last year amid the pandemic which forced the country to close its borders like the majority of other countries around the world. Sky […]