Egypt

Experts on Tuesday boarded a colossal cargo ships that had been stuck in the Suez Canal for almost a week before being released when questions swirled about the ground that had shaken the global shipping industry and blocked one of the world's most important waterways. The Ever Given was anchored in Great Bitter Lake, a wide stretch of water halfway between the north and south ends of the canal, after rescue teams finally managed to release the skyscraper on Monday afternoon. The ship, stuck sideways in a narrow…

First place was the only bet in this match in Group G between Egypt and the Comoros, two teams already qualified. The pharaohs did not hesitate to show who was the boss of this pool during the sixth and final day of the 2021 qualifier. Four goals in ten minutes! The Comoros team caught the Egyptian wave in the face at a…

Engineers on Monday "flooded" the colossal container ship that continues to block traffic through the Suez Canal, a canal service company said without giving further details on when the ship would be completely free. Satellite data from MarineTraffic.com showed that the ship's glowing arc, once embedded in the canal's east shore, had been twisted from the shore. Almost a week ago, Ever Given got stuck in the skyscraper sideways in the important waterway and created a massive traffic jam. The barrier…

Maritime traffic through the Suez Canal in Egypt resumed on Monday after a giant container ship that had blocked the busy waterway for almost a week returned, the canal authority said. 400 meters (430 yards) Ever Given got stuck diagonally across a southern part of the canal in strong winds at the beginning of last Tuesday and stopped traffic on the shortest shipping between Europe and Asia. "She is free," an official involved in the rescue operation was quoted as saying by Reuters. After the dredging…

A giant container ship remained stuck sideways in Egypt's Suez Canal for a fifth day on Saturday, as authorities prepared to make new attempts to free the ship and reopen the important east-west route for global shipping. The Ever Given, a ship with the Panama flag that transports cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground on Tuesday in the narrow canal that runs between Africa and the Sinai Peninsula. The massive ship got stuck in a single field stretch of the canal, about 6 kilometers north of the southern entrance,…

Why Somalia is important to Egypt in the Nile Dam CAIRO - Political relations are changing rapidly in the Middle East and Africa - including relations between Egypt and Somalia, which appear to have cooled with the neutral Somali stance on the crisis in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). On March 8, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received the new Somali ambassador…

The Sudanese Prime Minister has asked an international "quartet" to take the lead in the dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the filling of the Renaissance dam. The second phase of filling the reservoir is to begin next summer. This appeal is above all a sign of the closer bond that now unites Khartoum and Cairo towards their opponent.…

This is a first since 2014: an Egyptian delegation was officially scheduled in Tripoli, Sunday, December 27, with the government of national unity in Fayez el-Sarraj. During the Battle of Tripoli, Egypt, along with Russia and the United Arab Emirates and a few Western countries, had supported its rival, the strong man from the eastern part of the country, Marshal Khalifa Haftar. But according to…

We are talking about the situation of journalists and bloggers in Egypt, as two of them have just been arrested in what is the world's third prison for journalists. Far behind China and just behind Saudi Arabia, Egypt is the country with the most detained journalists, 31 according to the RSF, listing two newcomers to Egyptian…

CAIRO — On Dec. 6, a high-ranking Egyptian diplomatic delegation headed by Egyptian Assistant Worldwide Minister for African Affairs Sherif Issa visited Mogadishu at a time when Egypt has been taking steps to boost its presence in Africa.