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Africa: Egypt

The scene of a rail accident in the city of Qalyub in Egypt's Nile delta region north of the capital on March 7, 2023.  By Khaled DESOUKI AFPFile

Four dead in latest Egypt train crash

Mar 8, 2023 | Africa: Egypt

A train crash in Egypt killed four people and injured more than 20, officials said Wednesday about the latest in a serie ...


Mar 8, 2023 | Africa: Egypt

Four people were killed and 23 injured when a passenger train slammed into the buffers at a station north of Cairo, the ...

Jan 27, 2023 | Africa: Egypt

Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a Pharaonic tomb near the capital Cairo containing a gold leaf-covered mummy that ...

Jan 26, 2023 | Africa: Egypt

Egypt unveiled Thursday a gold-laced mummy and four tombs, including of an ancient king's secret keeper , discovered in ...

Jan 18, 2023 | Africa: Egypt

Entrepreneurial young Egyptians are helping combat their country's huge plastic waste problem by recycling junk-food wra ...

Jan 17, 2023 | Africa: Egypt

With Egypt's economy in crisis, the currency in freefall and inflation skyrocketing, the poor have been hit hard but the ...

Jan 16, 2023 | Africa: Egypt

An Egyptian military court on Sunday sentenced in absentia a Spain-based critic of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to lif ...

Jan 13, 2023 | Africa: Egypt

Nearly half a century after it was first shown in Paris in 1976, the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Ramses II will be back on di ...

Jan 11, 2023 | Africa: Egypt

The Egyptian pound traded Wednesday at half its value from March after the central bank intervened for a third time as p ...

Jan 9, 2023 | Africa: Egypt

Suez Canal maritime traffic was normal Monday after a cargo vessel carrying Ukrainian grain ran aground but was then r ...

Jan 8, 2023 | Africa: Egypt

Laser beams illuminate a darkened restaurant turned dance hall in Cairo as revellers move to thumping beats from female ...

Dec 30, 2022 | Africa: Egypt

Three Egyptian policemen were killed and four others, including a police officer, wounded Friday in an attack in the Sue ...

Dec 22, 2022 | Africa: Egypt

The chairman of Egypt's Suez Canal on Thursday affirmed the waterway is not for sale , in a bid to allay fears over a d ...

Dec 20, 2022 | Africa: Egypt

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday congratulated Qatar and his friend Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ...