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  • Cairo governor inspects housing project for slum inhabitants

    Cairo governor inspects housing project for slum inhabitants

    Date: 2015-03-23 13:56:11 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:51 - ID:2225809

    Cairo Governor Galal al Saeed inspected on Monday work flow in Asmarat and Tahiya Masr housing projects for inhabitants of slums at total costs of 1.5 billion pounds. The projects include construction of 10,230 housing units in al Moqattam, ....

  • Sisi leaves Khartoum for Addis Ababa

    Sisi leaves Khartoum for Addis Ababa

    Date: 2015-03-23 13:55:24 GMT - Sudan - Egypt - SN:50 - ID:2225801

    Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi left here for Addis Ababa on Monday wrapping up a brief visit to Sudan during which he signed with his Sudanese counterpart Omar el Bashir and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn a document of the ....

  • Egypt's bourse shows varied performance

    Egypt's bourse shows varied performance

    Date: 2015-03-23 13:54:23 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:49 - ID:2225769

    The Egyptian Stock Exchange (EGX) indexes showed varied performance at the close of Monday's trading amid purchases by foreign investment funds and institutions and Arab investors and sales by Egyptian and Arab institutions and investment funds. ....

  • Amitabh Bachchan to arrive Cairo Sunday to activate tourism

    Amitabh Bachchan to arrive Cairo Sunday to activate tourism

    Date: 2015-03-23 13:51:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:48 - ID:2225717

    Well-known Indian Actor Amitabh Bachchan will arrive here on Sunday as part of the Bollywood international Indian band. This will be in the framework of the plan set to activate tourism dubbed "India on the Nile River". The Deputy Head of the ....

  • World's biggest container ship pays EGP  6.2mln to cross Suez Canal

    World's biggest container ship pays EGP 6.2mln to cross Suez Canal

    Date: 2015-03-23 13:26:57 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:47 - ID:2225477

    The world's biggest container ship paid 6.2 million pounds as a toll fees for passing through the Suez Canal, said a well-placed shipping source at Suez Canal Authority. The container ship, carrying about 196,000 tons of cargo on board, crossed ....

  • 11 Brotherhood terrorist cells seized over targeting water, electricity stations in 3 governorates - interior ministry

    11 Brotherhood terrorist cells seized over targeting water, electricity stations in 3 governorates - interior ministry

    Date: 2015-03-23 13:10:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:46 - ID:2225313

    Interior Ministry Spokesman Hani Abdel Latif said that 11 terrorist cells, belonging to Brotherhood group, were seized over charges of exploding a number of electricity stations and towers in the governorates of Gharbiya, Minya and Fayyoum. They ....

  • 6 policemen injured in car accident in Minya

    6 policemen injured in car accident in Minya

    Date: 2015-03-23 13:09:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:45 - ID:2225301

    Six policemen were wounded when their vehicle overturned on the desert road. Minya Security Chief Mohamed el Helbawi received a notification that five conscripts and one non-commissioned officer from Abu Korkas Camp drove a car which ....

  • In principle agreement on Ethiopia's Dam right step toward cooperation - Bashir

    In principle agreement on Ethiopia's Dam right step toward cooperation - Bashir

    Date: 2015-03-23 13:08:06 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:44 - ID:2225293

    Sudanese President Omar el Bashir said signing the historic document of declaration of principles on Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam is a blessed step toward enhancing cooperation among the eastern Nile Basin states which will reflect positively on ....

  • Port Said court delays trial of Badie, others on violence charges

    Port Said court delays trial of Badie, others on violence charges

    Date: 2015-03-23 13:05:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:43 - ID:2225269

    Port Said Criminal Court on Monday adjourned for one day the trial of Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide and 190 MB members on charges of inciting and committing violence and murder in the Canal City in August 2013. Among those standing trial with ....

  • Awaqaf minister picked as as ambassador of tolerance and peace for 2015

    Awaqaf minister picked as as ambassador of tolerance and peace for 2015

    Date: 2015-03-23 12:51:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:42 - ID:2225153

    Minister of Awqaf Mokhtar Gomaa received an invitation from Sheikha Fariha Al Ahamed al Jaber al Sabah, the head of the peace and tolerance association in Kuwait and President of the Kuwaiti Society for the ideal family to be honored on the ....

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