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Egypt Egypt
Name: Egypt (Arabic: Misr) is officially the Arab Republic of Egypt
Region: North Africa but with the Sinai Peninsula connecting Africa to Southwest Asia / Middle East
Capital: Cairo
Area: 1,002,450 km2
Bordering Countries:
- Coast: Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
Official language: Arabic
Currency: Egyptian pound (EGP)
Internet TLD: .eg | Calling code: +20
Government: Semi-presidential republic
- President: Mohamed Morsi
- Vice President: Mahmoud Mekki
- Prime Minister: Hesham Qandil
Ruling Party: Muslim Brotherhood
History
- Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt: c. 3150 BC
- Independence from the United Kingdom: 28 February 1922
- Declaration of the republic: 18 June 1953
- The Egyptian revolution: 25 January 2011
- Current Constitution: 30 March 2011
Links
- Monday 20 May 2013
May 19, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Renowned Eritrean activist Meron Estefanos has told an international conference in Oslo that of all the atrocities taking place in the repressive Red Sea nation, the plight of its youth is the most harrowing. (...)
- Wednesday 27 February 2013
February 26, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – A senior Saudi Arabian official unleashed a barrage of attacks against Ethiopia saying that the Horn of Africa nation is posing a threat to the Nile water rights of Egypt and Sudan. Saudi deputy defence (...)
- Friday 19 April 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
April 18, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Eritrean government said this week that it supports Egypt’s stance over a colonial-era treaty that granted Egypt a right to utilise the lions share of Nile river’s water resources. (...)
- Wednesday 3 April 2013
April 3, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - There are ongoing reports that asylum-seekers and refugees kidnapped from camps on the Sudan-Eritrea border are being subject to cruel and inhuman treatment at the hands of their captors, including rape, (...)
- Monday 22 April 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
April 21, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Saudi Arabia on Saturday removed the Kingdom’s deputy defense minister who recently made hostile remarks over Ethiopia’s massive dam project being built on the Blue Nile River only 30km (...)
- Tuesday 4 September 2012
By Toby Collins
September 3, 2012 (LONDON) – Egyptian authorities fearful of a monopoly on Nile waters received agreement from Khartoum to build an airbase in Sudan, to launch attacks on Ethiopian damming facilities, claims the (...)
- Monday 29 April 2013
April 28, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Egypt’s military Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Sedki Sobhi arrived in Khartoum on Sunday for talks with Sudanese officials that will focus on controlling the borders. Sudan army chief of staff Colonel (...)
- Friday 3 May 2013
May 2, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – A senior Egyptian military official who visited Sudan last week has warned Khartoum that his government will not make any concessions on the disputed border region, according to a newspaper report. Sudan army (...)
- Monday 1 April 2013
March 31, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – The former foreign minister of Egypt Ahmed Aboul-Gheit said that any move by Cairo to ratify the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will hurt the country’s interests. Ahmed Aboul Gheit (...)
- Tuesday 28 February 2012
February 26, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Ministers of water from Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia will meet in Addis Ababa in March for more talks over the controversial dam project Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile, according to Sudan’s (...)
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