First Independent Mena Newspaper
Political parties loyal to President Sisi dominated in the parliamentary elections where For Love of Egypt party won all the 120 seats allocated to the list system while the majority of the remaining 448 seats filled on individual basis was also held by pro-Sisi parties. The elected MPs would be joined by 28 other members […]
Masked men attacked a fish restaurant in Cairo early on Friday killing at least 16 people and wounding 5 others, reports say. The attack occurred early on Friday morning in Cairo’s Agouza district in Giza. Police and reporters at the scene say three masked men threw Molotov cocktail bomb at the fish restaurant that is […]
The Egyptian ministry of the interior Sunday vowed to deal with growing torture cases and punish police forces involved in such acts. The ministry promised no leniency over what people call total impunity of police forces in the face of the increasing human rights abuses committed by these forces. The interior ministry is under fire […]
The first round of the second phase of the Egyptian parliamentary elections that was held in the remaining 13 provinces attracted a voter turnout of 29.83% according to the Supreme Electoral Commission. Voter turnout was higher than the first phase of voting held in the other 14 provinces which only stood at 26.56% in the […]
Egyptian High Election Committee (HEC) Tuesday cancelled a news conference following the death of two judges killed in an attack perpetrated by IS in the Sinai against a hotel in the provincial city of al Arish. The news conference in Cairo that was to announce results of the second round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections held […]
The Egyptian government has obtained a German financial support for three power projects to be carried out under the supervision of German group Siemens, through their local partners Orascom Construction and El-Sewedy Electric. The three projects will cost $ 6.3 billion lent by Deutsche Bank, HSBC Germany and German Bank of Reconstruction (KfW). The loan […]
A plane flying from Poland to Egypt was forced to land in Bulgaria after a bomb alert was made by a sixty year old passenger, reports say. The plane which took off from Warsaw, Poland, heading to the Egyptian resort of Hurghada, landed urgently at Bulgaria city of Burgas after the bomb threat emerged. “A […]
The Islamic State militant group Wednesday opened the lid over how it brought down the Russian plane saying that a “tin-can bomb” was used to down the plane confirming the Russian and Western conclusion of terrorist act. In the latest publication of its propaganda English-version paper Dabiq released Wednesday, the barbaric group showed a picture […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved a US$ 200 million loan for the construction of a new 1.8 GW combined cycle gas-fired power plant in Damanhour, north west of Cairo. This loan will contribute to funding the US$ 1.3 billion total project cost, which is also being supported by the European […]
Head of Russian Intelligence Service, Alexander Bortnikov, confirmed Tuesday that the Russian jet crash in Sinai was an act of terrorism and that a homemade bomb with the equivalent of “a kilo of TNT” destroyed the airplane. “One can say unambiguously that it was a terror act,” Bortnikov said, adding that Russian experts found out […]