The Arab League is keen on ensuring that Egypt and Sudan resorting to the UN Security Council over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue does not turn into a dispute between Arab and African sides, its ambassador to the UN (...)
UK Club, an insurer for the giant Ever Given ship that ran aground and blocked Egypt's Suez Canal in March, said it is currently engaged in "serious and constructive negotiations" with the canal's authority over its compensation claim.
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Egypt favours peaceful means that uphold the value of dialogue in dealing with any regional conflicts, Local Development Minister Mahmoud Shaarawy said in a Cairo-hosted forum on Thursday.
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Ethiopia slammed on Tuesday a resolution by the Arab League backing Egypt and Sudan's water security amid deadlock in negotiations over the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
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A Minya Criminal Court handed five-year prison terms to ten people and acquitted 14 others over sectarian violence against Copts in Upper Egypt's Minya in 2016.
A judicial source said that two of the defendants sentenced to jail on Tuesday have (...)
The decision to impose a 14 percent value-added tax (VAT) on online deliveries by restaurants and shops is necessary to achieve tax justice, the head of Egypt's Tax Authority, Reda Abdel-Kader, said on Thursday.
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Egypt's Suez Canal Authority (SCA) rejected on Saturday claims made by the giant Ever Given insurer UK Club, and said that exceeding set speeds at the country's strategic canal is the sole responsibility of the ship captain.
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Egypt's Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has been showing "full flexibility" in compensation negotiations with the owner of the giant Ever Given vessel that blocked traffic in the strategic canal for six days in March and disrupted global trade, the (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will receive US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Cairo on Wednesday as part of a Middle East tour aimed at bolstering a Cairo-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas last week.
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Egypt will not allow a water crisis to occur due to Ethiopia's intention to go ahead with the second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in July, Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel-Aty said on Sunday.
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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi urged the international community to provide necessary support to African states on Tuesday, amid considerations over equity in facing the coronavirus pandemic.
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Egypt would not accept a compromise of its water security over ongoing GERD dispute, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi amid ongoing efforts to revive negotiations on the dam with Sudan and (...)
Egypt said on Thursday it will impose immediate fines on farmers growing the water-intensive rice crop illegally amid fears that a second planned filling of the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in July will diminish Cairo's water (...)
Egypt and Turkey will hold "exploratory" political consultations on Wednesday and Thursday in Cairo, the Egyptian foreign ministry said, the first official diplomatic move as Ankara pushes with efforts to repair strained ties with Cairo.
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An Egyptian economic court upheld on Tuesday a ruling to prevent the giant Ever Given ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March from leaving the country pending the payment of $900 million in compensation for the losses incurred by the blockage.
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Sudan said on Tuesday that its foreign minister will begin an African tour to clarify Khartoum's stance on the ongoing dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
According to an official statement, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam (...)
Ethiopia said on Tuesday that "threats" by Egypt and Sudan amid deadlocked negotiations over Addis Ababa's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) were "futile", rejecting historical agreements on shares of the Nile waters upheld as points of (...)
Egypt's pharmaceutical company Minapharm and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) agreed on Thursday to manufacture over 40 million doses annually of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Cairo.
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Egypt and Libya agreed on Tuesday to resume flights between the two countries' capitals, with the first direct flight by a Libyan airliner set to arrive in Cairo on Wednesday,
Interim Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah announced the (...)
Egypt received 300,000 additional doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine in the early hours of Saturday, bringing the total number of the doses Egypt has received since December to 650,000.
The health ministry said the new batch, received at Cairo (...)
Mass night prayers during Ramadan (Taraweeh) will be permitted in some mosques with the adoption of preventive measures against the coronavirus, the state-run MENA agency quoted Nouh Essawy, the endowments under-secretary for mosque affairs, as (...)
Egypt began the go-live phase of its first digital portal for gas and oil exploration nationwide as it seeks to attract investors to its abundant resources, the petroleum ministry announced on Thursday.
Minister of Petroleum Tarek El-Molla launched (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi inspected on Friday a mega project aimed at major expansion of agricultural production through the reclamation of 500,000 feddans along the Dabaa Axis Highway in the country's north west.
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Egypt said on Friday it rejected a proposal by Ethiopia to delay a decision on "points of contention" in the current negotiations on the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) until after an agreement is reached.
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Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry said any failure by Ethiopia to adhere to a commitment on not filling its disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam would represent an attempt to impose an unacceptable reality.
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