CAIRO | Xinhua | Egypt inaugurated on Sunday the headquarters of the African Space Agency (AfSA) in the Egyptian Space City in Cairo. “Egypt has made extensive efforts to establish the agency, which embodies the vision of ‘The Africa We Want’ outlined in the African Union’s Agenda 2063,” Egyptian Foreign …
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CAIRO, EGYPT | Xinhua | In a yard in Egypt’s capital Cairo, a line of buses awaited, ready to transport Sudanese families back to their homeland. Parents organized their luggage and kept a watchful eye on their children, their faces radiating longing and hope as they observed their bags being …
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CAIRO | Xinhua | Egypt rejects Israeli attempts to undermine the unity of Palestinian territories by separating the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Saturday. Abdelatty made the remarks during a meeting in Cairo with a visiting delegation from the Palestinian Fatah movement, …
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Nile basin ministers’ tour of mega Ethiopian dam leaves sour taste for Egypt Benishangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia | RONALD MUSOKE | At 8:10 am on an already warming Sunday Feb.23 morning, three light aircraft taxied off the tarmac of Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They were carrying a group of about 24 people, …
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Cairo, Egypt | THE INDEPENDENT | The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, The Most Rev. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu, has departed for Cairo, Egypt, to attend the Global South Fellowship of Anglicans (GSFA) Bishops Formation Retreat. The retreat is scheduled from Monday, February 10th to 16th, 2025 in Egypt. …
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RAFAH, Egypt | Xinhua | Mohamed Ragab stood among crates of wilted fruits and vegetables, his frustration palpable: The 28-year-old truck driver has just completed the exhausting process of unloading his vehicle yet again, only to watch the perishable cargo spoil after being held for 72 hours by the …
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CAIRO | Xinhua | The first humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza from Egypt on Sunday as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire started taking effect, Palestinian sources confirmed. The sources told Xinhua that the first humanitarian aid entered the coastal enclave through the border crossing of Kerem Shalom in the southern of Gaza. …
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CAIRO | Xinhua | Remittances from Egyptian expatriates increased by 42 percent in the first nine months of 2024, reaching 20.8 billion U.S. dollars compared to 14.6 billion dollars during the same period last year, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said on Monday. In September alone, remittances …
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ANALYSIS | Endalcachew Bayeh, a political scholar, lecturer, and researcher at Bahir Dar University with a focus on the Horn of Africa, sets out the risks of new proxy wars and the path to de-escalation since Egypt recently deepened its involvement in the war-weary Horn of Africa by arming Somalia and …
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Egypt’s nuclear ambitions have received a major boost with the El-Dabaa plant reaching a key milestone, bringing it closer to operational capacity. This comes as the global competition for influence in Africa’s nuclear energy sector heats up, with international players eager to secure deals across the continent. SPECIAL REPORT | …
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