Egypt

ISMAILIA, Egypt (AP) — A skyscraper-sized cargo ship wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal further imperiled global shipping Thursday as at least 150 other vessels needing to pass through the crucial waterway idled waiting for the obstruction to clear, authorities said.

CAIRO, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Somalia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mohamed Abdirizak discussed here on Monday means of promoting bilateral cooperation in all fields, the Egyptian foreign ministry said in a statement.

"The talks tackled the exerted efforts for developing the cooperation between the two sides in a way that reflects the strong mutual relations," said Ahmed Hafez, spokesperson of the Egyptian foreign ministry.

20 Mar 2021; MEMO: The Egyptian Cabinet of Ministers on Friday revealed the truth about what has been circulating on social media and news websites about the sales of ports and airports to foreign parties.

The Media Centre of the Council of Ministers denied the news about selling Egyptian ports and airports to foreign parties, adding that what is being circulated is untrue.

19 Mar 2021; MEMO: The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a statement issued by a number of countries at the UN Human Rights Council criticising Cairo's human rights records by issuing a counter-statement criticising what it alleges to be human rights violations in the countries that issued the statement.

18 Mar 2021; MEMO: Egypt has announced that it regrets the issuance of the joint declaration criticising the human rights situation in Egypt during the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Egypt's Permanent Mission to the UN has stated that it "regrets" "the crude politicisation and "unjustified escalation" in the United Nations Human Rights Council.

18 Mar 2021; MEMO: An Egyptian court sentenced prominent female activist Sanaa Seif to a year and a half in prison on Wednesday for spreading false news, her sister and judicial sources said, reported Reuters.

17 Mar 2021; MEMO: The Egyptian army has demolished 12,350 buildings in Sinai since 2013, Human Rights Watch revealed yesterday, adding that these demolitions "are violations of international humanitarian law, or the laws of war, and likely amount to war crimes."In a report, the HRW said: "Between late 2013 and July 2020, the army destroyed at least 12,350 buildings, mostly homes, most recently in t

16 Mar 2021; MEMO: The volume of global food waste reached 931 million tonnes in 2019, 40 million of which originated in the Arab world, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced in a report earlier this month.

16 Mar 2021; MEMO: Remittances from Egyptians working abroad increased by 10.5 per cent in 2020, despite the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said yesterday.

Transfers rose from $26.8 billion in 2019 to $29.6 billion in 2020, the central bank said in a statement. The fourth quarter of 2020 saw an increase of 7.6 per cent compared to the same period a year earlier, it added.

CAIRO, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit said on Monday that the Syrian situation is "tragic" 10 years after the outbreak of the crisis.

In a statement, Aboul-Gheit said the dimensions of the Syrian humanitarian, strategic and security crisis cast a shadow over the entire Arab region, with half of the Syrians becoming refugees and displaced.