The Latest Breaking News from Egypt

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett discussed the stability of energy markets and food security on Tuesday, the Egyptian presidency said.

The flooding had become inevitable. Every winter, amid heavy rains and storms, the Mediterranean Sea would rise and spill over into fisherman Aziz Lasheen's low-lying village in Egypt's northern governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh. As water poured into the village of Mastroua it would destroy homes, saturate farmland with saltwater and…

Egypt has set a fixed price for unsubsidised bread in an effort to counter rising food prices after Russia's invasion of Ukraine closed off access to lower-priced Black Sea wheat.

The Central Bank of Egypt has raised its key interest rate for the first time since 2017, citing inflationary pressures triggered by the coronavirus pandemic and Russia's war in Ukraine, which hiked oil prices to new records

Egypt's Supreme Emergency State Security Court (SESSC) has set May 15 as the date for delivering its verdict in the case of eight suspects accused of collaborating with the terrorist ISIS group and plotting attacks against state institutions. The Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) had ordered the defendants to be…

Egypt's central bank raised its key interest rates by 100 basis points in an exceptional monetary policy committee meeting, it said in a statement on Monday. The central bank set its overnight lending rate at 10.25% and its overnight deposit rate at 9.25% citing global inflationary pressures amplified by the…

Egypt confirmed on Saturday that more than 31 million people have been fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, amid a stable number in daily infections. On Saturday, the Health Ministry said the average number of daily infections during the last week reached 788 cases, while the average daily death toll…

Egypt will attend on Sunday the 144th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and its related meetings held in Nusa Dua, Bali. The four-day event is hosted by the Indonesian parliament. Egypt is represented at the Assembly by a parliamentary delegation, headed by Speaker Hanafy Ali El-Gebali.

Archaeologists have discovered five ancient tombs adorned with well-preserved paintings at a cemetery in Saqqara, just outside the Egyptian capital Cairo, officials said on Saturday.