Egypt

In the Nile delta, a women's hockey team is making inroads in an area that claims the sport's historical origins, despite social and financial challenges that prevent it from developing its sporting career

The country will return to daylight saving time this summer after a seven-year hiatus, the latest in a series of government efforts to save energy; clocks will be advanced by one hour starting on the last Friday in April

The Shia mosque of Al Ḥakim bi Amr Allah, in central Cairo, has been reopened after renovations began in 2017; work on the more than 1.000-year-old building included repairing water damage and cracks in the walls

A renovated wing of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo - which houses a 16-metre papyrus scroll recovered last year - has been inaugurated; it is the first phase of wider renovations to the ancient complex

Annual inflation was 25,8% last January in Egypt, up from 21,3% in December, making it the highest rate in more than five years, according to data released by the Capmas statistics agency

Egypt's Supreme Council for Urban Planning and Development has approved the request submitted by the Sovereign Fund for Investment and Development to change the use of the Tahrir Square complex to be transformed into a hotel

The Egyptian Lawyers' Association has announced an "indefinite" strike to protest the jailing of six colleagues over a fight with clerks earlier this month

One Egyptian family, the Sawiris family, tops the list of the five richest families in the Arab world according to Forbes magazine

A sarcophagus dating back to the Late Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, smuggled into the United States in 2008, has eventually returned home and handed over with a ceremony in Cairo; the country is also holding talks with the UK for the Rosetta Stone

1.200 new mosques were opened across Egypt this year financed by the Ministry of Awqaf, while others were built privately under government supervision - the ministry reports

The Committee for Justice, an independent human rights organisation, documented 1.453 human rights violations in Egypt between July and September this year, 1.351 of which related to arbitrary deprivation of liberty

Tourism expert Randa al-Adawy said Egypt's participation in 22nd summit of World Travel and Tourism Council in Saudi Arabia coincides with government's plan to increase the rate of incoming tourism to 30 million tourists per year

Funds have been allocated for the preparation of strategic and detailed maps for the 74 planned industrial zones spread across the country - said the Minister of Local Development