Tag: Cairo

Egyptian & Greek Rescue Teams in Search of Missing EgyptAir Flight

May 19, 2016

Egyptian national forces and coastguards assisted by Greek forces have been mobilized on the Mediterranean to look for the missing EgyptAir flight MS804, which disappeared ... Read More

Libya: GNA’s Head Demands Lifting of Arm Embargo

May 10, 2016

Head of Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) urged the international community to lift the arm ban saying that fight against IS will be meaningless ... Read More

Egypt: Journalists Protest against Arrest of Colleagues, File Complaint against Interior Minister

April 29, 2016

Hundreds of journalists Thursday marched through Cairo, from the Press Syndicate headquarters in central Cairo towards the attorney general’s office where they filed a complaint ... Read More

Egypt: Police Arrest Activist for Advising Italian Student’s Family

April 28, 2016

Egyptian police have arrested an Egyptian human rights advocate who is advising the family of the Italian doctoral student found dead in February near Cairo ... Read More

Egypt: Government Assaults Activists Ahead of Monday Protest

April 23, 2016

Egyptian security forces have launched multiple assaults on activists who have called for anti-government protest on Monday to chide regime for surrendering the two “Egyptian” ... Read More

Egypt: Hollande Calls for Respect of Human Rights in Anti-Terror Fight

April 18, 2016

Visiting President Francois Hollande of France urged his Egyptian peer to respect human rights even though the country is being riddled with terrorist attacks. Prior ... Read More

Libya: HoR to Endorse GNA no Later than April 18

April 12, 2016

The House of Representatives (HoR) will in the coming days and no later than April 18 convene to give a vote of confidence to the ... Read More

Engine Failure Forces EgyptAir Plane to Land

April 1, 2016

An EgyptAir plane bound for Cairo on its way from Abu Dhabi made a successful landing on Thursday in Sharm al-Sheik airport after one its ... Read More

Egypt: Riyadh offers $1.5 Billion to Finance Projects in Sinai

March 21, 2016

Cairo announced Sunday it received $1.5 billion from Saudi Arabia earmarked for development projects in underprivileged Sinai. The Saudi kingdom has already donated Egypt several ... Read More

Palestine: Hamas Seeks to Smooth Ties with Cairo

March 14, 2016

The Hamas delegation that arrived in Cairo on Saturday held its second round of meetings with Egyptian security officials on Sunday in a bid to ... Read More