Juba, South Sudan AP —  A drone strike on a market in Abyei, a border region disputed by Sudan and South Sudan, hit a nearby fuel depot, killing at least 153 people and igniting a fire that was still burning Tuesday, a local official said. Yohanna Akol Ngor, the Abyei administration’s caretaker information minister, blamed Sudan’s …
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A UN climate report released Wednesday finds the globe will unavoidably slip past the Paris Climate Agreement’s 1.5-degree Celsius warming target in the next few years. The task now, the report states, is to make the period of warming “overshoot” as limited as possible, eventually bringing global average temperatures back down. The annual UN Emissions …
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Egypt’s engineering exports rose 4.1% year on year to $4.351bn in the first eight months of 2026, up from $4.181bn in the same period last year, according to the Engineering Export Council of Egypt (EECE). The council announced the figures during the third edition of its annual conference, “The Future of Egyptian Industry and Exports […]

Italian energy company Eni has started operations at the second phase of the Meleiha project in Egypt’s Western Desert through Agiba Petroleum Company, its joint venture with the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC). The project marks a major milestone in developing a new gas processing hub within the Meleiha Integrated Concession. It will significantly increase […]

  Egypt has reached an agreement worth EGP 11 trillion (USD 202 billion) with the Talaat Moustafa Group to develop four major mixed-use projects.  The deal was announced on the sidelines of the “Urban Development” session on the second day of Egypt Forum 2026 on Tuesday, 20 October, as President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi directed the construction of hundreds of thousands of new rental units.  The projects include a development north of Madinaty and an 11.3-million-square-metre project in central Alexandria.  They also include an integrated industrial, logistics and real estate project in the Abu Qir area and a North Coast destination modelled on the SouthMED development.  Turning to housing policy, el-Sisi said the aim of the old rent law is to break the exclusive mindset of ownership and revive renting as an alternative to buying a home.  He argued that the housing model pursued over previous decades helped create a major crisis of slums and unplanned housing.  Presidential Spokesman Ambassador Mohamed El-Shennawy detailed Egypt’s urban expansion and transport overhauls since 2014. His presentation covered the construction of 61 new cities and the delivery of 1.96 million new housing units. It alsoContinue reading "Sisi Unveils EGP 11 Trillion Talaat Moustafa Deal and Mass Rental Housing Drive at Egypt Forum 2026"
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The pointed arches that rise over Notre-Dame Cathedral in  France and Canterbury Cathedral in England may owe part of their lineage to a ninth-century mosque beside the Nile, according to Diana Darke, an Oxford-educated Arabist. Egyptian and Mamluk architecture reached Europe in two distinct waves over the years. Firstly through medieval trade and cultural exchange, and then again through the Orientalist and Revivalist movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. Together they left a quiet network of monuments, from the cathedrals of France and England to a brick mosque in Lithuania, that trace their design vocabulary back to Cairo.  The Medieval Transmission The earliest and most consequential exchange involved the pointed arch. Structures such as the Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo, completed in the ninth century, helped popularize the form. Amalfi merchants, Italian medieval traders and seafarers, carried it to southern Italy, and it later surfaced in French Gothic cathedrals, including Notre-Dame, and in England at Canterbury.  The arch likely traveled from Cairo through Italian trading ports to northern Europe, though how directly remains debated. Decoration traveled too, including Mamluk and Fatimid ornaments, such as arabesques, geometric patterning, and coloredContinue reading "How Cairo’s Islamic Architecture Influenced European Monuments"
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Egypt is seeking to accelerate oil and gas investments, develop discoveries, and increase domestic production, Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, said during the Mediterranean Offshore Conference and Exhibition (MOC 2026), citing the settlement of outstanding arrears as a factor supporting investor confidence. Speaking at a roundtable titled “The Future of Energy in […]
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HAU Energy, the renewable energy investment platform of Hassan Allam Utilities, and Infinity Power, Africa’s largest renewable energy company, have secured up to $566 million in debt financing for the Nefer Minya Solar photovoltaic (PV) project in Minya. The plant is set to become the largest solar power plant in Egypt and Africa, according to […]
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