CAIRO: Egypt's April 6th Youth Movement declared on Wednesday they are starting a campaign under the slogan “The eyes of Egypt 2012,” to monitor the presidential elections scheduled for May 23 and 24.
It said it also adopted the slogan (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's popular political figure Mohamed ElBaradei, the former president of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the co-founder of the al-Dostor Party, criticized the course of the current political transition phase in Egypt on (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Catholic Church issued a statement on Tuesday confirming that it stands neutral and objective, and does not prefer a certain presidential candidate in the upcoming presidential race, stressing that it “respects the freedom of its (...)
CAIRO: Raafat Saleeb, a leader of the Copts of the United States of America and resident of Los Angeles, issued a press release on Tuesday, on behalf of the Egyptian Copts in America, emphasizing that after considering the presidential candidates` (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Free Front for Peaceful Change Movement accused in a statement on Tuesday the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) of attempts to “disrupt the drafting of the constitution, and the selection of the (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's liberal leaning Free Egyptians Party declared its support for the calls and demands by women's rights organizations and NGOs in the country, which have called for woman's rights.
The party also said it stands against “the (...)
CAIRO: A number of Egyptian human rights groups have submitted a communication to the Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud against the Muslim Brotherhood`s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) to investigate the complaints of people (...)
CAIRO: The Free Front for Peaceful Change declared on Saturday its support for presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, saying that its decision comes after what the Movement saw in his electoral program as an emphasis on the civil state, and that his (...)
CAIRO: Boutros Boutros Ghali, President of the semi-governmental National Council for Human Rights, expressed his non-objection to allow international and local organizations to monitor the presidential elections. He said that this position had (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's state-owned MENA news agency reported on Saturday that a court ruling in Switzerland has been issued in favor of Egypt, which would allow Egypt to recover funds embezzled by former President Hosni Mubarak and his cronies.
The (...)
CAIRO: The Union of Coptic Organizations in Europe, and more than 20 other Coptic groups in the United States, declared their total rejection to support any presidential candidate with a religious reference. The groups also expressed their rejection (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Coalition of the Artists of the Revolution announced on its official Facebook page that it supports presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi as the next president of Egypt, under the slogan “Moving towards a better future with Sabahi … (...)
CAIRO: Talaat Abdel Awi, Egypt's Vice-President of the General Federation of Associations and NGOs, said that the Higher Committee for the Presidential Elections agreed to grant permission and licenses to some 320 members of the General Federation (...)
CAIRO: The Minister of State for Planning and International Cooperation, Faiza Abul Naga, dismissed reports and statements by leaders of the Muslim Brotrherhood`s polical arm the Freedom and Justice Party, about an imminent cabinet reshuffle or (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Minister of Tourism, Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, expressed his confidence that tourism will return to normal during the current year, especially from the Arab market, depending on the positive indicators that were shown this (...)
CAIRO: Mohammed ElBaradei, co-founder of Al Dostor party, ‘the Constitution', and the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that his party is seeking to be a platform of what he called the ‘popular majority', to (...)
CAIRO: Italian police said on Tuesday, they have arrested 79 Egyptian illegal immigrants and arrested 15 human traffickers near the port of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily.
The Italian Security forces found 30 immigrants on a large boat and arrested (...)
CAIRO: The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), issued a report on Monday, on the occasion of the Labor Day, stating that the number of unemployed amounted to 3.183 million people in 2011, and that the unemployment rate (...)
CAIRO: Egypt`s Foreign Minister, Mohammed Kamel Amr, stressed that relations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia are strategic and would not be affected by any differences or transient events.
Amr said in a statement made at the Cabinet Headquarters (...)
CAIRO: The liberal, Free Egyptians Party, issued a statement on Monday, declaring its full support to the Egyptian workers in Saudi Arabia, and its rejection of any abuses, or violations of human rights laws and the laws of the International Labor (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Minister of Tourism, Mounir Abdel Nour, said in statements on Monday that he expects the return of tourist activity this year and to reach higher levels than the pre-revolution phase, saying that a large number of tourists (...)
CAIRO: Presidential candidate, Amr Moussa, former Secretary General of the Arab League, called on Sunday for allowing international monitoring of the upcoming presidential elections in Egypt, in order to maintain transparency and legitimacy in the (...)
CAIRO: The French Agency for Development, said on Saturday, it is awaiting approval by the Egyptian authorities for a soft loan worth 300 million Euros to finance construction of the third line of the Cairo Metro.
This came in a statement (...)
CAIRO: The moderate Islamist Party, Wasat, announced on Sunday, its support to Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, whom is considered a moderate Islamist presidential candidate, after an internal party vote.
The party said, in an official statement, “the (...)
CAIRO: A meeting held by the Alliance of Women Rights Organizations on Saturday, held under the title “the demands of women for the constitution,” recommended a number of proposals on the criteria for the formation of the Constituent Assembly whom, (...)