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Parliamentary sources said that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafi Nour Party agreed that 15 FJP members of the People’s Assembly, five of the party’s Shura Council members, seven Nour Party members...
Several prominent figures in the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak have been named as responsible for arranging a gas deal with Israel, according to which Egypt would sell gas to Israel at much-reduced prices.
The defense team of former...
Mohammad Ragab, the National Democratic Party's new secretary general and sucessor of Hossam Badrawy, is tasked with reviving and leading deposed President Hosni Mubarak's party forward in the face of overwhelming popular anger and...
Parliament speaker Fathi Sorour has asked prime Minister Ahmed Nazif to attend Sunday’s parliamentary session to respond to interpellations concerning the recent wave of anti-government demonstrations staged countrywide.
Sorour called on the...
Egyptian members parliament, at a meeting of the body’s health committee on Monday, rejected the new bylaws that suggest privatizing public hospitals during the afternoon shift starting at 1PM.
They considered the new bylaws a step towards the...
“Gasoline prices should be raised,” said Magdi Afify, undersecretary of the Shura Council’s transportation committee, at a council meeting on Wednesday. “And its subsidies should be spent on education.”
The committee...
Members of parliament on Monday criticized the media and called for banning it from covering investigations of the Alexandria church bombing.
“The Penal Code punishes anyone interfering in investigations,” MP Zakaria Azmy told media...
A heated discussion broke out in parliament on Sunday over the allocation of a LE2.7 billion USAID fund obtained by the Ministry of Education for the creation of "Alam SimSim," an Arabic version of Sesame Street. A conflict arose between...
Jeremy Kumana, Secretary General of Burundi’s ruling party, congratulated Safwat al-Sharif, Secretary General of Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).
“You had a sweeping victory just like we had in the recent elections,...
The government plans to introduce a new system for state subsidies by which citizens can choose between receiving subsidized commodities or cold cash, Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali said on Tuesday.
"Ration card holders will be provided...
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