Amr Mohamed Kandil

World Health Organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on his Twitter account has invited a number of world leaders including Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to participate in the Safe Hands Challenge.

This is considered to be Sisi’s first public comments on coronavirus, since it started in Egypt.

Sisi asked citizens to stick to instructions and stay at home for two weeks, to overcome the current health crisis and help limit infection.

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli on Wednesday held a meeting with the health minister to review the government’s measures taken so far to face the novel coronavirus, after Egypt confirmed 30 new cases and two deaths on Tuesday.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Wednesday received James Wani Igga, vice president of South Sudan, in Cairo, the Egyptian Presidency said in a statement, after the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) was established in South Sudan

Egypt’s top cigarette maker told the Egyptian Bourse its decision to officially raise the selling price for some products of the state-owned company, including molasses (mu’assel) and minced tobacco, by a range of LE 0.5 ($0.032) to LE 3 ($0.19).

An independent Egyptian judicial body mandated by the law to protect public funds on Friday saved the state from paying $500 million as a value of harm the state allegedly caused to the investments of the US-based Champion Holding.

Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned the Israeli government’s decision to allow the construction of new 3,500 units in illegal Israeli colonies in Palestine’s West Bank for violating international law, the ministry spokesman said in a statemen