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Despite progress in Egypt, trachoma remains a public health challenge in 30 countries Geneva, Switzerland | THE INDEPENDENT | Egypt has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced, marking a historic milestone for the country and the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). It …

Cairo, Egypt | THE INDEPENDENT |  The 1st Uganda Tourism, Coffee and Tea Expo in Egypt has opened at the Royal Maxim Palace Kempinski in Cairo. The two-day event aims to highlight ‘Destination Uganda’ to tourists as well as to promote Ugandan coffee and tea to Egyptian consumers and businesses. …

Egypt peace summit showed that it is more showbiz extravaganza than the ‘dawn of a new Middle East’ COMMENT | DAVID HASTINGS DUNN | Following the Middle East summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal has been compared in the media to the Good Friday agreement which brought …

GAZA | Xinhua | When U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his 20-point peace plan for Gaza on Sept. 29, I thought Hamas would reject it outright. The proposal excluded the Palestinian movement from governing Gaza and required it to disarm — conditions that seemed impossible for it to accept. Yet …

CAIRO, EGYPT | Xinhua | Following the conclusion of a high-profile peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Gaza has entered a long-awaited moment of calm. The implementation of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement has drawn global attention. For many, the celebration of this hard-won truce is also …

CAIRO, EGYPT | Xinhua | An international summit will be held in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday to finalize an agreement aimed at ending the war in Gaza, the Egyptian Presidency announced on Saturday. The meeting will be co-chaired by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi …

CAIRO, EGYPT | Xinhua | Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced Saturday the discovery of a New Kingdom period (1550-1069 BC) military fortress in the country’s northeastern North Sinai province. The fortress, located at the Tell El-Kharouba site in the Sheikh Zuweid area, is one of the largest and …

CAIRO, EGYPT | Xinhua | Israel and Hamas on Thursday agreed to a Gaza ceasefire deal, offering a tentative path toward ending the two-year conflict that has killed over 67,000 Palestinians, injured almost 170,000 others, and left the enclave in ruins. The deal on the “first phase” of a U.S.-backed …

CAIRO, EGYPT | Xinhua | As Hamas and Israel are meeting in Egypt over a potential ceasefire the world anxiously awaits, Gaza marked the grim second anniversary of the conflict on Tuesday. Over the past two years, what began as a cross-border attack by Hamas has, under the weight of …

GAZA, PALESTINE | Xinhua | Residents of the Gaza Strip are watching closely as Palestinian and Israeli delegations arrived in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh in a renewed effort to secure a comprehensive ceasefire after nearly two years of war. On the streets of Gaza, the mood …