Egypt mulls community service over prison time

The Egyptian parliament will debate a bill to replace jail terms with community service for minor offenses to reducing costs and overcrowding in prisons.

Egypt

Will Egypt get handle on its public debt?

Parliamentary committees are making noise about plans to address Egypt's public debt, in part by establishing mechanisms to optimize the use of loans and grants.

Egypt

Anti-bullying campaigns raising social awareness in Egypt

Egypt's education sector has teamed up with UNICEF and the European Union to start public and private discussions on detecting and preventing peer-to-peer physical and psychological violence among children.

Egypt

Upper Egypt villagers don't exist on paper

Many Upper Egyptian villagers are invisible to the government after generations of births and marriages without official paperwork, leaving them uncounted and without services.

Egypt

Egyptian filmmaker seeks to reclaim Israel's 'Angel'

An Egyptian director is eager to redeem Ashraf Marwan as Egypt's "agent" and not a legendary spy for Israel as the Israeli version of his story hits Netflix.

Egypt

Egypt's horse exports growing now that most bans are lifted

Now that many countries no longer ban imports of Egyptian horses, the government expects the country to become a hub for investment in purebred Arabian horses.

Egypt

Lawmakers to study how Egypt's civil servants are paid

The majority coalition in Egypt’s parliament wants to amend the civil service law to increase what government employees are paid, while some experts and economic observers believe the state ought to instead create a work environment that discourages incompetent civil servants.

Egypt

Al-Azhar includes women in public discussion of harassment, rights

For the first time, Al-Azhar’s newspaper published the photos of unveiled women on the front page of an edition devoted to women's issues.

Egypt

Why is Egypt canceling T-bond auctions?

For the second time this year, the Egyptian government canceled the sale of treasury bonds after banks demanded higher interest rates.

Egypt

Egypt intensifies diplomatic efforts to resume stalled talks over Ethiopia dam

As Ethiopia admits to financial and administrative obstacles hindering the completion of the Renaissance Dam, Cairo is stepping up diplomatic efforts to complete the stalled negotiations to reduce the risk of the dam to Egypt's water security.

Egypt

Egypt tightens screws on Hamas with threat to close Rafah crossing

Hamas wants to resume mass demonstrations along Israel's border to attract international attention to Gaza, but doing so threatens to unleash harsh Israeli and Egyptian reprisals.

Palestine

Fatah brings Hamas-Israel truce talks back to square one

After meeting recently with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Egypt has frozen the truce talks between Hamas and Israel and will focus its efforts on reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas.

Palestine