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Car giant company Nissan Tuesday indicated that it envisions increasing its market share in Morocco by 2016 and make the kingdom its pivotal point to conquer the African continent. Nissan Boss for Africa, Middle East and Far East Christian Mardrus speaking at the launch of a new Nissan show-room in Casablanca said the car producing […]
President Beji Caid Essebsi of Tunisia held a closed door meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah El Sisi shortly after he arrived in Cairo Sunday on his maiden official visit to the country. President Essebsi described the meeting as “successful” and said there is a mutual interest to strengthen cooperation and solidarity. In a joint […]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi in an address told the General Assembly on Monday that finding a solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict will bring peace in the Middle East region and end terrorism. Al-Sissi called on resolving the conflict and empowering the Palestinians towards self-determination and “an independent state within the border of 4th June […]
Egyptian tourism professionals pin high hopes on campaigns to revitalize the sector which has been badly hit by repeated terror attacks that scared off foreign tourists. In 2014, nearly 10 million tourists visited the North African country, bringing with them $ 7.5 billion in revenues against the 14.7 million tourists that visited Egypt in 2010, […]
2015 Eid celebration will remain historic for two Aljazeera reporters and other prominent prisoners as they have been pardoned by the Egyptian President on the eve of the Muslim sacrifice celebration. Al-Sissi ordered the release of 100 prisoners among them the Aljazeera’s Fahmy and Baher. The two reporters’ sentences were confirmed by a Cairo court […]
Human Rights Watch Tuesday criticised Cairo for smashing people’s rights in its campaign against IS fighters in North Sinai and said it may produce more militants as its buffer zone creation is leaving thousands of residents with no roof and no means of subsistence. The Chief of the Human Watch Dog in Middle East and […]
Libyan Premier Abdullah Al-Thani has been prevented Monday, for the second time in less than a week, from leaving the country as he was about to fly to Egypt for Eid holiday. Security forces close to Gen. Haftar pulled him out of his official plane at Labrag Airport. This was the fourth time, and the […]
Egyptian army Monday announced that it killed 5 Jihadists and arrested several others on the 14th day of its “Martyrs’ Right” against IS-linked groups in North Sinai. The army said on its official facebook page it killed 5 militants and captures 15 others in the operation meant to free the North Sinai cities of militant […]
A new Egyptian government led by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, the petroleum minister in the former government, was sworn in on Saturday. The new cabinet features almost half of the ministers that were in Mahlab’s government. The government is expected to be short-lived because a new government would be announced before the end of the […]
Mexico’s foreign minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu who flew to Cairo after the tragic death of 8 Mexican tourists has called for thorough, comprehensive, prompt and transparent investigations in the circumstances that led to what she termed “tragic and unprecedented events.” The 8 Mexican tourists were killed together with 4 Egyptians and 10 others were injured […]