First Independent Mena Newspaper
EgyptAir announced Monday families of the 66 people who died in the crash of its Flight MS804 will receive each an advance compensation of $25,000, before insurance companies release the rest of the compensation. The victims’ relatives will be able to receive the compensation once a certificate of inheritor has been established, Satwat Mussallam, Head […]
Egypt and Qatar Saturday exchanged blazing words after former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was handed life sentence on espionage charges. Qatar rejected Egypt’s highest criminal court Saturday ruling which handed ousted Morsi life in prison sentence for leaking state secrets to Doha. Qatar foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed al Romeihy lambasted the court decision, which he […]
Egypt’s energy concern could be about to be over following the discovery of a new natural gas field on the Nile Delta coast by Eni and British Petroleum (BP.) The regional BP president for North Africa, Hesham Mekawi, said the latest discovery located 12km away from the shoreline “is the third discovery along the Nooros […]
Moroccan security services have dismantled another terror cell linked to the Islamic extremist group Isis. The six-member cell was active in the northern cities of Tetouan and Martil as well as in Casablanca, the biggest city in the North African Kingdom, an ally of the West. According to a press release issued Thursday by the […]
Cairo has expressed doubts as to the veracity of allegations that a senior Egyptian official referred to African countries as “dogs and slaves” in Arabic at the UN Environment conference that took place last week in Kenya and stated that it will launch an investigation into the matter. The incident purportedly took place during consultations […]
Opposed Palestinian groups have agreed to head to Cairo for reconciliation talks under the auspices of Egypt’s top General intelligence Officer. “The Palestinian issue has returned to the top of priorities of the agenda,” the New Arab quoted an Egyptian source as saying. The forthcoming meetings whose details have not been disclosed are in line […]
Egyptian forensic department chief Tuesday denied claims that an explosion brought down the EgyptAir plane which crashed last Thursday in the Mediterranean. “Everything published about this matter is completely false, and mere assumptions that did not come from the forensics authority,” Hesham Abdelhamid was quoted as saying. Abdelhamid debunked a report by one Egyptian official […]
Search of the two data boxes of the doomed EgyptAir plane A320, which crashed Thursday, is under way as Egyptian authorities announced Sunday deployment of a submarine to hunt for the black boxes that may give a clue as to the exact causes of the crash. Speculations are mounting as to the reasons behind the […]
Egyptian authorities Thursday said theory that EgyptAir plane A320 which disappeared and “crashed in the Mediterranean” in early hours of Thursday on its way to Cairo from Paris, a terrorism act cannot be ruled out. Civil aviation minister, Sherif Fathi told reporters that it was too early to draw conclusion but it is highly possible […]
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 from radar between Paris and Cairo. The plane Airbus A320 is believed to have crashed into the Mediterranean at 2:30 am local time, around 280km north of the Egyptian coast. […]