Paris’ Louvre Museum sees 70% plunge in visitors due to COVID-19 restrictions

The Louvre Museum in Paris suffered a drop of over 70% in visitor numbers in 2020, as restrictions put in place against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) kept art lovers away,…

Daily News Egypt

Göteborg Film Festival creates isolated cinema on lighthouse island

Festival to offer film enthusiasts 7 days at remote cinema and one-person film screenings in historic city

Daily News Egypt

Egypt’s external debt rises to $125.3bn in September 2020

Long-term dues account for 90.2% of country’s total external debt

Hossam Mounir

UK raises $1bn to help vulnerable countries obtain COVID-19 vaccines

UK has recently committed £1m to Egypt, to support rapid response, surveillance, infection control capacities

Nehal Samir

Nigeria’s army kills 28 Boko Haram militants in northeastern state

Nigeria's army also recovered a gun truck, many weapons and a large quantity of ammunition during the gunfight, military spokesperson Benard Onyeuko said.

Xinhua

Emigration Ministry provides accommodation, medicines for Egyptians stranded in UAE

Minister of State for Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates’ Affairs Nabila Makram said, on Monday, that her ministry cooperated with civil society organisations to provide accommodation and medicines for Egyptians stranded…

Daily News Egypt

Quartet meeting in Cairo to advance Middle East peace process

Participants will urge Palestinian, Israeli sides to resume negotiation to reach comprehensive political settlement based on two-state solution

Sami Hegazi

Egypt has promising opportunities in data centre field: Netsync

Egypt’s holds many promising opportunities in the data centre field, according to Tamer Hedayat, Regional Director in Europe and the Middle East for the US group Netsync Network Solutions.

Daily News Egypt

EGP 236m allocated for development of Bahr Al-Baqar wastewater treatment plant

Bahr Al-Baqar wastewater treatment plant is world’s largest, with capacity of 5m cbm per day

Daily News Egypt

Egypt’s new House of Representatives – All you need to know

New parliament to hold opening procedural session on Tuesday to elect speaker, with Ali Abdel-Aal poised for another term

Sarah El-Sheikh