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Egypt will hold a presidential vote on Dec. 10-12, the elections authority said on Monday, with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi widely expected to win reelection despite an economic crisis including record inflation and foreign currency shortages. Sisi, 68, can stand for a third term due to constitutional amendments in 2019 …

The latest talks over the mega dam that Ethiopia is building on the Nile River’s main tributary have broken up without an agreement. The two-day talks between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt on the disputed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ended on Sunday night in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. Ethiopia’s chief …

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani announced that the Joint High Committee between Iraq and Egypt has resulted in the signing of 11 memoranda of cooperation between the two countries. During a joint press conference held with his Egyptian counterpart, Mostafa Madbouly, in the Egyptian capital, Al-Sudani stated that the committee’s …

A statement by the media office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has shed light on his agenda during his official visit to Egypt. In an official press release on Monday, the premier’s media office said that al-Sudani was officially welcomed his Egyptian counterpart, Mustafa Madbouly, at the Cairo …

The Arab League has reportedly granted Syria a conditional return to the 22-member body with immediate effect. The decision was made by Arab foreign ministers during a closed-door meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday, media reports said. An Egyptian diplomat told the Abu Dhabi-based The National newspaper that …

Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halboosi met, at the Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo, on Sunday, with the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. At the beginning of the meeting, congratulations were exchanged between His Excellency and the Egyptian President on the occasion of the holy month of …

Syrian President Bashar Assad could soon meet with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, sources say. Syria and Egypt are in advanced talks to restore diplomatic relations that were severed after the outbreak of the conflict in Syria back in 2011, informed sources have told the Wall Street Journal. A …

Syria’s foreign minister met his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo on Saturday, the first such visit in more than a decade and the latest sign of Arab states mending ties with President Bashar al-Assad. Faisal Mekdad was embraced by Sameh Shoukry as he arrived at the Egyptian foreign ministry, the first …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on an Africa visit also met representatives from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed with officials in Ethiopia a dispute with downstream Egypt over Ethiopia’s completion of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam. Egypt and Sudan have been in talks …

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi discussed enhancing bilateral relations between their countries. Al-Sudani met with El-Sisi today, Sunday, during his official visit to Cairo. Additionally, both leaders exchanged perspectives on a range of regional and global issues of mutual concern, underscoring the importance …

Egyptian antiquities officials announced on Thursday the discovery of a hidden nine-metre-long corridor behind the main entrance of the Great Pyramid of Giza that they said could lead to further findings. The find was made under the Scan Pyramids project that since 2015 has been using modern technology including scans …

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has expressed his gratitude to the Iraqi government for its endeavors to restore Tehran’s relations with Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein in Baghdad on Wednesday, Amir-Abdollahian thanked Hussein and the Iraqi government for their …

Egyptologists have uncovered a Pharaonic tomb near the capital Cairo containing what may be the oldest and “most complete” mummy yet to be discovered in the country, the excavation team leader said on Thursday. The 4,300-year-old mummy was found at the bottom of a 15-meter shaft in a recently uncovered …

The Egyptian Senate is preparing to discuss banning TikTok in Egypt and other similar applications that fail to meet the nation’s safety policies and standards. The Egyptian Senate’s move to ban the application came after many lawsuits were filed before the Egyptian courts calling to ban TikTok from the Internet …

An ancient sarcophagus was returned to Egypt from a museum in the US after authorities determined it was looted. The nearly three meters (9.5ft) tall sarcophagus was housed at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Texas until Egyptian authorities sought it back as part of government efforts to stop the …

ISIS said Saturday that it carried out a deadly attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia the previous day. “A cell of soldiers of the caliphate managed to attack an Egyptian police roadblock… with a machine gun,” the terrorist group’s Amaq news agency said. …

COP27 host Egypt is close to signing final agreements to build two wind and solar projects with a combined capacity of a gigawatt (GW) to boost the country’s lagging renewable power development. High levels of solar irradiation, strong winds, and expanses of desert in which to construct plants mean Egypt …

Egypt and Greece on Sunday said a deal allowing Turkish hydrocarbon exploration in Libya’s Mediterranean waters was “illegal” as Athens said it would oppose it by all “legal means.” On Monday, Turkey said it had signed a memorandum of understanding on exploration for hydrocarbons in Libya’s seas with the authorities …

Egypt unveiled Monday a sarcophagus of a senior royal official from over 3,200 years ago at the Saqqara archaeological site south of Cairo, the latest in a series of spectacular discoveries in the area. A team of Egyptian archaeologists from Cairo University found the red granite sarcophagus of Ptah-em-uya, “a …

New evidence about the Nile bolsters a long-standing theory of how ancient Egyptians managed to build the massive pyramids of Giza thousands of years ago. Researchers led by geographer Hader Sheisha at Aix-Marseille University in France used paleoecological clues to help reconstruct what Egypt’s Nile river might have looked like …