Amnesty International on Wednesday called on the Egyptian government to release arbitrarily detained human rights activists currently awaiting “unlawful” prosecution. The charges brought against them ...

RAFAH, Egypt — A dusty, remote border crossing on the tip of Egypt's North Sinai has become the focus of international attention because it is currently the only way in and out of the Gaza Strip. It's ...

As Israel readies for a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, much attention has shifted to how Egypt will respond in the coming days and weeks. The Egyptian government, after all, has been party to the ...

For thousands of years, Egypt has had an active relationship with the rest of Africa, with modern age characterised by the 19th century’s irrigation projects under Mohamed Ali, laying the foundation ...

ASWAN, Egypt — Sudan and Egypt are neighbors with deep ties and interwoven histories, and they share a common lifeline: the Nile River. So integral is the Nile to life in these countries that ...

Egypt has officially declared seven missing people, including five foreigners, dead after a tourist boat capsized off Egypt’s Red Sea coast in November. A decree published in the official gazette on ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the first ...

(Beirut) – The Egyptian government’s decision in June 2023 to require all Sudanese to obtain visas to enter Egypt has reduced access to safety for women, children, and older people fleeing the ongoing ...

(Beirut) – Egyptian authorities have severely undermined the right to education in recent years by failing to allocate sufficient budgetary resources, Human Rights Watch said today. The government has ...