The foreign ministers of Egypt and Comoros Islands agreed on Thursday to continue coordination and consultations to ensure fair and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines in Africa.Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Hafez said FM Same...

Sudan's Foreign Minister Mariam Al-Saddiq Al-Mahdi expressed on Thursday her country's keenness to enhance cooperation with Egypt, saying Khartoum's relations with Cairo are strategic to security in the region."My first trip was to South S...

Egypt signed on Thursday a development financing deal worth €109 million ($131.1 million) with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to provide residential communities across rural areas in Luxor with sanitation services.The deal was signed...

Police in Myanmar broke up demonstrations in several places with tear gas and gunfire on Thursday as protesters took to the streets again undeterred by the rising death toll in a crackdown on opponents of last month's military coup.The inc...

Thai navy sailors on Tuesday have bravely crossed choppy waters just to launch a dramatic rescue after discovering four cats been stranded on a sinking boat that caught fire off in the Andaman Sea."I used my camera to zoom in to the boat,...

Egypt's Court of Cassation, the country's highest appeals court, upheld on Thursday a three-year jail sentence against Mubarak-era information minister Anas El-Feky for squandering public money in 2009.El-Feky was convicted of squandering...

Anghami, which operates a music streaming app popular in the Middle East and North Africa, announced on Wednesday it is set to become the first Arab tech firm to list on the Nasdaq after entering a deal to merge with a special purpose acqui...

Public investments directed to Upper Egypt during FY2018/2019 through FY2020 / 2021 amounted to EGP 104 billion, with a growth rate of about 27 percent, compared to the three previous years, Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hal...

IKEA, the world's biggest furniture retailer, opened on Wednesday its second branch in Egypt in in collaboration with Al-Futtaim Group and MARAKEZ for Real Estate Investment, a subsidiary of Saudi Fawaz Alhokair.The new two-storey outlet,...

Egypt's Ministry of International Cooperation and the African Development Bank (AfDB) inked on Thursday a development financing deal worth €109 million that aims to provide sanitation services in residential communities in Luxor's rural are...

Liverpool v ChelseaStay tuned as the match is due to start 22:15 Cairo local time (GMT+2) Venue: AnfieldReferee: Craig Pawson(For more sports news and updates, follow Ahram Online Sports on Twitter at @AO_Sports and on Facebook at Ahra...

Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman praised his side for their never-say-die attitude after they reached the Copa del Rey final with a 3-0 win after extra time over Sevilla on Wednesday to pull off the latest in a series of great turnarounds in t...

Tottenham Hotspur have an advantage by playing their Europa League match at home before next week's north London derby but Arsenal will not use that as an excuse, manager Mikel Arteta said.Spurs and Arsenal were both due to play their last...

French President Emmanuel Macron renewed his call on Thursday for an immediate end to repression in Myanmar, a day after the United Nations said 38 people had been killed in the bloodiest day of crackdown on protests against last month's mi...

Egypt detected 577 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, bringing its total infections tally nationwide to 184,168 since the outbreak last year, a statement by the health ministry said.The health ministry reported 44 new deaths, bringing ove...

The Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Yemen said on Thursday it had destroyed a ballistic missile fired towards Jazan in the south of the kingdom by Houthi forces, in a statement carried by Saudi state media outlets.Yemen's Houthi f...

With 100 days until the rescheduled European Championship, UEFA is considering cutting three cities from its list of 12 host venues across the continent.Bilbao, Dublin and Glasgow are at risk of being dropped over the lack of guarantees ab...

Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie office in Egypt, announced on Wednesday that it had been mandated as legal advisor in the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) deal to provide financing for glassware manufacturer Pasabahce Egypt...

A U.S. contractor died Wednesday when at least 10 rockets slammed into an air base housing U.S. and other coalition troops in western Iraq, the Pentagon said.Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said the contractor ``suffered a cardiac episode...

Britain has condemned the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday."We've condemned the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, we continue to call for a full investigation into the causes of his death," John...

Telecom Egypt is planning to launch Hybrid African Ring Path (HARP) by 2023, a new subsea system circling the African continent to link it with Europe."This will connect coastal and landlocked African countries to Europe through the compan...

Setbacks in African development endeavors can be attributed to the lack of reliable infrastructure, according to Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group's Senior Vice President for the 2030 Devel...

The value of Egyptian-Italian trade hit €3.390 billion during the period from January to October 2020, compared with €4.34 billion in the previous year, according the commercial office of the Italian Embassy in Cairo saidIn a report publis...

Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) approved the creation of a new source to finance the activity of buying securities on margin, according to FRA's Chairman Mohamed OmranOmran clarified that this will take place through allowing factorin...

Egypt detected 581 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, bringing its total infections tally nationwide to 183,591 since the outbreak last year, a statement by the health ministry said.The health ministry reported 42 new deaths, bringing overa...