Al-Sisi praises police efforts in countering extremism amid major nationwide ministry reshuffle

Reshuffle included a new department for illegal immigration and hiring of new security directors for North and South Sinai

Adham Youssef

Two months into blocking of websites, more journalists are being cut off

Dozens of journalists reportedly lost their jobs following the blocking of websites since late May

Farah Bahgat

Euromoney Egypt Conference to discuss growing opportunities for investment, partnership in September

Euromoney’s annual gathering, the Euromoney Egypt Conference, will return to Cairo on 18-19 September for its 22nd edition to discuss growing opportunities for investment and partnership in Egypt. Victoria Behn,…

Daily News Egypt

Depreciation of customs dollar to EGP 16.25 after four month of stabilisation

Four months of stabilisation in the value of customs dollar at EGP 16.5 due to the stability of the dollar price in banks

Shaimaa Al-Aees

Egypt’s new subsidised bread system to include liberalisation of flour, diesel prices

The government aims to import 7 million tons of wheat in 2017-2018 

Mohamed Ayyad

Boycotting states say dialogue with Qatar conditioned by agreement to demands

The GCC is the only place for discussing Qatar’s membership in the council, says Bahraini FM

Mohammed El-Said

Second power outage at Cairo International Airport in 48 hours

6 engineers, technicians referred to investigations over two-hour blackout

Daily News Egypt

Authorities prevent smuggling 204 ancient coins into Egypt

The coins belong to different historical eras and were coming from Dubai

Daily News Egypt

Coptic inscriptions accidentally discovered at ancient monastery

The discovered walls are frescoes, and they portray angels and saints with Coptic religious inscriptions curved beneath them

Daily News Egypt

Controversy intensifies over new Banking Law

CBE surveyed IMF and World Bank experts regarding the law after field visits to several central banks, Amer said in an earlier statement

Hossam Mounir