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Egypt, home to ancient pyramids and Red Sea resorts, aims to boost tourism by up to 30% annually over the next five years, bringing in private firms to operate sites and inaugurating a huge museum around the end of 2023, its tourism minister said.

Israel committed to stop authorization of any settler outposts in the occupied West Bank for six months during a meeting on Sunday with Palestinian officials in Jordan when the sides pledged to prevent more violence. In a joint statement at the end of a meeting in the Red Sea resort…

Jordan's King Abdullah II told US President Joe Biden's top Middle East advisor attending an Israeli-Palestinian meeting on Sunday that efforts should be intensified to bring "calm and reduce escalation" in Palestinian territories, state media reported. Brett McGurk attended the meeting in the Red Sea port of Aqaba hosted by…

The fall of the Egyptian pound could work favourably for travellers to the region

But sterling has fallen in value against some currencies which have seen strong sales growth, according to Post Office Travel Money.

Egypt's Suez Canal Economic Zone is in negotiations with Chinese companies to implement investment projects worth $5 billion, according to an official statement from the Suez Canal Authority. The deputy chairman of the southern part of the Zone, Walid Youssef, visited the Chinese industrial zone TEDA in Ain Sukhna on…

Tightening your belt when it comes to travel as the cost of living crisis bites? Consider swapping big-name European beach destinations for north Africa, suggests Andrew Eames

Two officials say Sudan’s ruling military has concluded a review of an agreement with Russia to build a navy base on the Red Sea in the African country

Evgeny Lebedev explores a $25bn Saudi resort that’s going green on a scale that has never been seen before

The Saudi Red Sea Global awarded a Primary Infrastructure and Utility Contract of $266 million to the al-Ayuni Investment and Contracting to progress expansion at Amaala’s first phase of development across its Triple Bay masterplan. Red Sea Global is developing The Red Sea and Amaala destinations in the Kingdom. Al-Ayuni,…

More than 2 billion people live in “water stressed” countries. These are territories where more than 25% of the available freshwater resources are withdrawn for human use each year.