Egypt’s Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Hisham Badr told European Union Members of Parliament (MEPs) that Egypt now hosts five million refugees and migrants from across the region.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has apparently rejected the military coup in Yemen and reiterated his support for the “legitimacy” of President Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi, Anadolu reported on Monday.

Egypt has requested its membership to the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) be reinstated, a senior Ethiopian official said yesterday.

Efforts by Egypt to mediate a settlement between the Presidency Council, the House of Representatives (HoR) and Khalifa Hafter have failed to achieve a breakthrough.

The 27th Arab League Summit held in Nouakchott, Mauritania came to a close on Tuesday after several state leaders, including Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Saudi King Salman Al-Saud, failed to attend.

Egypt’s presidential office denied rumors on Monday that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is not attending the Arab League summit in Mauritania this week due to a suspected assassination plot. Anonymous sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm the Egyptian intelligence had gained information about a planned attack on the president during his visit …

During the first official visit by an Israeli prime minister to the African continent since Yitzhak Shamir’s in 1987, Benjamin Netanyahu embarked on a tour beginning July 4 with a visit to Uganda, followed by Kenya and Rwanda, and concluding with Ethiopia. He was accompanied by a delegation of 80 …

CAIRO, Jul 11 (Aswat Masriya) – Director of the Andalus Institute Ahmed Samih spread false news about religious discrimination in Egypt, according to the court reasoning, which was released on Monday.

BRUSSELS – The head of the EU’s border agency voiced concern Tuesday that growing numbers of Europe-bound migrants were turning to Egypt as a departure point for their perilous sea journey. “Egypt is starting to become a departure country,” said Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri in an interview with the Funke …

The parents of slain Italian student Giulio Regeni appeared before the European Parliament on Wednesday, calling on its members to push Egypt to conduct a transparent investigation into his murder.