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Alaa Yassine, the Egyptian minister of Irrigation and Water Resources advisory for dam affairs has finally announced that the proposed project of linking the Nile with River Congo will finally not go ahead due to “technical reasons.” The project was proposed by Sarko Overseas, a private company owned by Ibrahim Al-Fayoumi, but Egypt decided not […]
President Sisi is on his first official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a Head of State and was full of praise of its leaders as he paid homage to the founder late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. He described the ties between the two states as “strong and balanced.” He urged […]
Ahead of the parliamentary elections in Egypt, the discord between two Islamic oriented political parties is beginning to surface. Al-Nour, a Salafist political party, and the now banned Muslim Brotherhood that has been termed as a terrorist organization by the state are at a latent war over the control of Sinai. Crisis between the two […]
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has said that Egypt will not obstruct the development ambitions of neighboring Ethiopia during a visit of a delegation led by Patriarch Abune Matthias. Tensions between the two countries grew when Addis Ababa started building The Great Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile last year. Egypt said the project threatens its […]
Relations between Morocco and Egypt are currently going through a turmoil apparently because of the two countries’ media which have been lately airing unfriendly comments and reporting on either country. The Egyptian media started the offensive few months ago when a TV anchor lashed out at Morocco describing it as a country of charlatanism whose […]
The Libyan parliament in Tobruk has come under attack after a suicide bomber in a car detonated his bomb at the entrance of the al-Salam Hotel where the parliamentarians are based and have their sessions. There are no casualties. This is the first time the parliament is targeted in a bomb attack since it left […]
Egyptian efforts to create a 10 kilometer long buffer zone along its border with a kilometer radius are still being pursued. The killing of 30 Egyptian soldiers by a suicide bomber in the Sinai region in October has forced the government to construct a buffer zone and declare a three-month emergency in certain areas of […]
Egypt has received a financial support from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) which provided the most populous Arab country a € 55 million loan for the construction of two new wastewater plants. The money will also fund the expansion of three existing plants and the installation of 700 km of pipes and […]
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry expressed deep concern over the conflict in Libya and its implications for the country’s future, during a Sunday meeting with his Libyan counterpart, Mohamed Al-Dairi. Hostilities in Libya between the government forces and the Islamists have not stopped leading many to fear that it could delay the projected UN-led dialogue […]
During an interview at the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) on Thursday, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Ankara is willing to normalize relations with Cairo if it shifts towards democracy and the respect of human rights. Since the ousting of Mohammed Morsi from power by El Sisi in a military backed coup d’état, the […]