Egypt

Egypt’s petroleum sector is on track to prosper thanks to a new service that will make it easier for investors to spot opportunities in the country. Launched by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, the Upstream Gateway…

Egyptian accountant Youssef Abdel Hamid regrets that he was unable to make his usual Eid sacrifice this year. Amid rising inflation and a weakening local currency, Hamid is among those who have been skimping on household essentials.…

Egypt has revealed details of the launch of the MisrSat 2 satellite from China in October, at a cost of $74 million. The satellite’s mission is to take images of Egyptian soil to preserve the environment, as well as to undertake remote…

A small part of a notebook bound in Egypt almost 2,300 years ago could be the oldest-surviving fragment of a book ever discovered, experts have said. The proto-paper papyrus in question was excavated at the El-Hiba necropolis in 1902 and…

An Egyptian man suspected of organizing the smuggling of thousands of people aboard “death traps” from North Africa into Italy has been arrested in London, British police said on Thursday. The 40-year-old man was detained in west London…

Egypt’s House of Representatives has approved an agreement for the country to host the headquarters of the African Space Agency, which was signed in Cairo in January. The deal aims to promote and implement policy and strategy in the…

Abdel-Sanad Yamama, the leader of Egypt’s opposition Wafd Party, has been nominated to run in the upcoming presidential elections. The polls are scheduled for 2024 and Wafd is participating for the first time since 2011. Ninety…

Egypt’s macroeconomic indicators have improved as the North African country recorded a primary budget surplus of 1.2 percent of the gross domestic product during the first 11 months of the current fiscal which ends on June 31. During a…

When fighting in Sudan erupted in mid-April, Abdel-Rahman Sayyed and his family tried to hold out hiding in their home in the capital, Khartoum, as the sounds of explosions, gunfights and the roar of warplanes echoed across the city of 6…

Tighter security measures by customs authorities at Cairo International Airport have helped thwart several smuggling attempts, officials said. Separate attempts to smuggle memory cards, drugs and swords into Egypt were foiled at terminal…