On October 23, 7 million Tunisians will cast their ballots in what could be Tunisia's first free and fair election. They will select 217 members of the Constituent Assembly, a transitional governing body tasked with writing the new (...)
CAIRO: Australian scientists have been forced to withdraw research vessels from up to one fourth of the Indian Ocean due to the threat of pirate attacks. They have also been unable to distribute floating weather monitoring devices that provide (...)
CAIRO: The yearly Arab Attitudes Survey conducted by Zogby in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan reveals that 2011 was a bad year for President Obama and the United States in the Arab World.
In all countries surveyed (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Interior Minister Mansour Essawy announced the termination of service of over 669 police officers at a press conference held at the Interior Ministry on Wednesday.
In the largest single turnover event in the history of Egypt's (...)
CAIRO: According to a Ministry of Planning International Cooperation (MPIC) press statement on July 12, Faiza Abou el-Naga, the Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, directed the ministry of justice to form a commission to examine (...)
CAIRO: As of June 14, Egypt's ministry of finance had processed and approved 2,344 of 7,500 applications filed for compensation for damages incurred during the revolution of January earlier this year.
The ministry is offering reparations for (...)
CAIRO: Presidential hopeful Amr Moussa proposed a plan to restore confidence and stave off further confusion and oppression in Egypt. In a statement emailed to al-Ahram, Moussa seeks to address “the huge gap between the expectations and hopes of the (...)
CAIRO: On July 1, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) informed the US Congress of a possible foreign military sale of 125 M1A1 Abrams tank kits to the Egyptian government. The sale, which was requested by the government of Egypt, would (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Finance Minister Samir Radwan announced that officials from the United Arab Emirates would be coming to Cairo later this month to discuss the details of a $3 billion aid package. He confirmed that the money had already been received (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum expects repairs to the pipeline supplying natural gas to Israel and Jordan to be completed by the end of this week, according to the official MENA news agency.
The Egyptian Natural Gas Company (GASCO), a (...)