After negotiations on implementing the minimum wage reached a dead end, the Journalists Syndicate referred Al-Bawaba News’ founder Abdel Rahim Ali and his daughter, Editor-In-Chief Dalia Abdel Rahim, ...
Poet and political activist Ahmed Douma told Mada Masr that Cairo International Airport authorities prevented him early Sunday from traveling to Beirut — a trip he described as an attempt to “break ...
In late October, Supply Minister Ali al-Moselhi announced that the price of a loaf of subsidized bread would remain fixed at 5 piasters for the time being. With the ministry having concluded its ...
When Mada Masr visited the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees agency offices in Cairo one morning last week, a crowd of hundreds, including many elderly and visibly ill people, was gathered ...
The Egyptian military’s expanding involvement in economic activities— from land acquisition and private company purchases to the rollout of commercial ventures — was flagged by the International ...
On Sudan’s eastern coast, the military-led government in Port Sudan is swiftly moving to reshape the political landscape following the appointment of a new prime minister and the containment of a wave ...
A month after his appointment, Prime Minister Kamel Idris, whose selection drew regional and international support and expression of hope that he could steer Sudan toward a new political phase, has ...
As the public bus approaches the main gate of Asmarat on Street 9 of the Cairo district of Moqattam, a police officer and two security guards appear. The bus goes through the manually operated boom ...
Buried in the messages of the now infamous “Houthi PC small group” — the Signal group in which members of the United States administration discussed an impending American attack on Houthi positions in ...
Violent clashes continue to rage across Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, disrupting civilian facilities and residential spaces in cities nationwide on Monday, a ...
In February, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree to direct the Armed Forces Land Projects Agency (AFLPA) to oversee construction of two of Egypt’s mega-projects to be built on 16,000 acres ...
Editor’s note: This piece was originally written in 2005 with the Egyptian Business History Research Center at the American University in Cairo. “A metro that moves with electricity, smoothly, no ...