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  1. AFRICA/EGYPT - On the streets of Cairo, mission as encounter, listening and fraternity

    Agenzia Fides EG

  2. Trump says FBI is probing Nvidia CEO as chipmaker heads for $470 billion wipeout, exposing the US technology behind AI infrastructure across South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco

    Business Insider Africa ZA MA NG

  3. Gaza Grad: A Palestinian-Russian family’s longing for home

    Al Jazeera EG

    Forced from Gaza, a Palestinian-Russian family rebuilds their lives across Russia and Egypt, longing to return home.

  4. HVS Middle East & Africa survey reveals strong investor confidence in Egypt's hospitality sector as focus shifts from demand to delivery

    Egyptian Gazette EG

  5. Economies are improving, but rule of law is slipping. The buck now stops with Africa’s leaders | Kenneth Mohammed

    The Guardian SD EG

    The west has spent decades judging Africa’s governance and colonialism is much to blame. But Mo Ibrahim’s latest index offers a different perspective – and some uncomfortable truthsThe west has never been short of advice on how Africa shoul...

  6. Cheiron Energy signs new offshore gas exploration agreement in Egypt

    Africa Business Communities EG

  7. Scatec secures $217m for Dandara solar project in Egypt

    Africa Business Communities EG

  8. Egypt: How Egypt's Laws Are Used to Choke Its Independent Press

    AllAfrica EG

    [CPJ] The Conviction of Mada Masr Editor-in Chief Lina Attalah highlights the persistent threat of how Egyptian authorities use licensing requirements, criminal penalties, and website blocking to silence independent journalism, despite cons...

  9. Egypt’s Strategic Pivot: The Nile, Sudan’s War and a New Route Into Africa

    The Times of Israel EG SD

  10. Lewis Hamilton visits Egypt’s Rafah border to highlight humanitarian efforts for war-torn Gaza

    Africanews EG

    Formula One superstar Lewis Hamilton has visited Egypt's Rafah border crossing, drawing attention to humanitarian efforts supporting war-torn Gaza.

  11. Lewis Hamilton visits Egypt’s Rafah crossing and Gaza aid facilities

    The Guardian EG

    Seven-time F1 world champion tours border area and logistics warehouses operated by Egyptian Red CrescentLewis Hamilton has visited Egypt’s Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to meet organisations sending humanitarian aid to the terr...

  12. Africa’s top 3 largest economies, South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria, owe China a combined $17.2 billion as of 2025, while poverty and unemployment persist

    Business Insider Africa ZA NG EG

  13. Deadly train crash reignites calls for overhaul of Egypt's railway network

    Africanews EG

    Sunday's deadly train crash that killed seven people and injured dozens more has reignited calls for an overhaul of Egypt's ageing railway system. The accident happened when a train travelling from Giza to Fayoum rear-ended another on the C...

  14. Egypt: Seven dead, 125 injured in collision between two trains

    Africanews EG

    Rail workers began repairing damaged tracks in Al-Ayyat, Egypt, on Monday 9 November, a day after two passenger trains collided south of Cairo, killing seven people and injuring at least 125 others.

  15. ‘We are left with silence’: Egypt’s press freedom under threat

    Africanews EG

    Egypt's latest prosecution of journalists attempts to "silence" the last surviving vestiges of the free press, Lina Attalah, head of preeminent outlet Mada Masr, told AFP days before she faces jail time in court.

  16. Abandoned and traumatised: child refugees at ‘violent’ breaking point in Egypt after fleeing Sudan war

    The Guardian SD EG

    Three years of conflict has left hundreds of thousands of Sudanese children out of school and vulnerable to gangs and drugsMounds of rubbish, the stench of raw sewage and, at night, roaming drug dealers and gangs. These are the streets of a...

  17. Egypt train crash: Survivors describe horror after collision kills seven

    Africanews EG

    Seven people were killed and at least 125 others injured when two trains collided Sunday south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the Chief Prosecutor’s office said in a statement

  18. Seven dead and more than 100 injured after trains collide in Egypt

    BBC Africa EG

    Several carriages derailed after two trains travelling in the same direction crashed outside the city of Giza.

  19. Collision of two trains in Egypt kills at least seven

    The Guardian EG

    President orders prompt investigation after one train derails in collision in al-Ayyat about 50km from CairoSeven people were killed and at least 125 injured when two trains collided on Sunday south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, officials...

  20. Footage shows derailed carriages after fatal train crash in Egypt

    BBC Africa EG

    At least seven people died when two trains collided, causing several carriages to derail and fall down an embankment.

  21. 'I can't believe he is one of us' - inside Salah's life in Trabzon

    BBC Africa EG

    BBC Sport travels to Turkey to watch Mohamed Salah play for Trabzonspor and discover how the 'Egyptian King' is settling into life by the Black Sea.