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  • Maintenance to leave Qalyoub without water for 5 hours Tuesday

    Date: 2017-02-27 20:23:16 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:99 - ID:6601257

    BANHA, Egypt, Feb 27 (MENA) – Maintenance works will leave Qalyoub city in a water outage for five hours on Tuesday, local authorities announced Monday. The planned cut off will be from 8 am to 1 pm to carry out maintenance at a water station in ....

  • Census project aims at forming comprehensive population database - CAPMAS head

    Date: 2017-02-27 20:21:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:97 - ID:6600905

    MANSOURA, Egypt, Feb 27 (MENA) - Chairman of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) Abu Bakr El Gendy said Monday the current census project aims at surveying the characteristics of the population and forming a ....

  • Parliament speaker says hold no grudge against dismissed lawmaker Sadat

    Date: 2017-02-27 20:20:04 GMT - Egypt - Parliament - SN:96 - ID:6600885

    CAIRO, Feb 28 (MENA) – The Parliament Speaker said on Monday that he does not hold a grudge against MP Mohamed Anwar el Sadat, after he was stripped of his membership in a majority vote. “The interest of the nation requires combating any attempts ....

  • Deputy FM meets African officials

    Date: 2017-02-27 20:18:45 GMT - Egypt - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:95 - ID:6600897

    CAIRO, Feb 27 (MENA) – Deputy Foreign Minister Hamdy Sanad Louza and Assistant Foreign Minister Mohamed Idris held a series of meetings with a number of African deputy ministers and other senior officials on the sidelines of a Great Lakes workshop, ....

  • Alternative water sources provided to face water line break in Alexandria

    Date: 2017-02-27 20:17:22 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:94 - ID:6600669

    ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Feb 27 (MENA) – Alexandria Governor Mohamed Sultan on Monday directed the bodies concerned to provide alternative sources of drinking water in the areas affected by the water pipeline break east of the city. The governor ....

  • Egypt parliament strips MP Mohamed Anwar el Sadat of membership

    Date: 2017-02-27 20:15:56 GMT - Egypt - Parliament - SN:93 - ID:6600889

    CAIRO, Feb 27 (MENA) – Egypt’s parliament on Monday voted with a majority for stripping lawmaker Mohamed Anwar Essmat el Sadat of his membership. As many as 468 MPs voted for, eight voted against, four abstained and 112 were absent. The move ....

  • Natural gas supply cut off to 7 districts in Giza

    Date: 2017-02-27 20:15:14 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:92 - ID:6600901

    GIZA, Egypt, Feb 27 (MENA) – Giza governorate announced on Monday cutting off natural gas supply to a number of districts in Giza starting from 12 a.m. to Tuesday 7 p.m. In a press release, the governorate said the districts are Waraq, Imbaba, ....

  • Fire at Scientific Research Academy in New Valley contained

    Date: 2017-02-27 20:12:30 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:91 - ID:6600681

    KHARGA, Egypt, Feb 27 (MENA) – Civil defense controlled on Monday a fire that erupted at the Scientific Research Academy building in Kharga of New Valley governorate. No casualties were reported. Firefighters rushed to the area to contain the ....

  • Police arrest 4 men accused of kidnapping, robbing woman in Giza

    Date: 2017-02-27 20:11:32 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:90 - ID:6600665

    GIZA, Egypt, Feb 27 (MENA) – Security forces have arrested four men accused of kidnapping and assaulting a woman in Giza. The woman was taking a van to her work when the four men, who were inside the vehicle, took her to an agricultural area on ....

  • PM agrees to form committee of public, private sectors to promote tourism

    Date: 2017-02-27 20:10:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:89 - ID:6600661

    CAIRO, Feb 27 (MENA) – Prime Minister Sherif Ismail on Monday agreed to form a higher committee of government bodies and the private sector to be tasked with drawing up plans to promote tourism. Ismail took the decision at a meeting he held ....

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