If it gains access to the Red Sea, Ethiopia will be the first non-Arab state to gain this access. The Red Sea is vital for ...

Maged Mandour, an Egyptian political analyst, told the New York Times that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was "borrowing money from abroad to build a massive city for the rich" and that the poor ...

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Save the Children is focused on Egypt’s most vulnerable children, including street children, child refugees and girls in rural communities, helping give them the chance to be healthy, learn and stay ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that it has reached an agreement with Egypt to unlock about $1.2bn in funds to prop up the country’s troubled finances. The Washington ...

Egypt has opened a record-breaking mosque in its new administrative capital city - but has been widely criticised for the costs involved. The government has been building a new city in the desert ...

How did ancient Egyptian obelisks end up all over the world? Do you have poor posture at work? So did the ancient Egyptians Do you have poor posture at work? So did the ancient Egyptians A ...

Wouldn’t industry get priority over poor people? What if Egypt sabotaged the dam? Visible from the village’s edge, the river glistened in the canyon far below, its power evident even from ...

For three decades, we had been ruled with an iron fist by President Hosni Mubarak, nicknamed "the pharaoh" by ordinary Egyptians after ... police brutality and poor living standards.