Egypt

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

UN Security Department is investigating allegations of surveillance and misconduct by the Egyptian police against delegates attending the COP27 climate summit in Sharm al-Sheikh, dismissed by the Egyptian COP27 chairmanship

Installations by artists from around the world are displayed in the necropolis of the pyramids of Giza during the second edition of the Art D'Égypte "Forever is Now" exhibition running for the entire month of November

Sharm el-Sheikh's largest solar power plant will start operation in November, beginning to produce 20 megawatts of energy

Leading Egyptian archaeologists have renewed their call for the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum in Egypt, 200 years after the decipherment of the slab marked the birth of Egyptology

A total of 119 agritech and foodtech companies have raised funds in past year but only 3 countries on the continent have captured 87,6% of these deals: Egypt is the top African country in this regard, with US$186,1 million distributed, or 38,6% of total