[Shabelle] Cairo -- Somali Foreign Minister Abdisalam Abdi Ali praised Egypt's continued political, developmental, and security support for Somalia during a phone call with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Friday.

[RFI] Egypt enter the first 48-team World Cup as Africa's fourth best side in the Fifa rankings. In the fifth of a nine-part series on African squads at the tournament, RFI looks at a nation making its fourth appearance in nearly 100 years.

[CPJ] Washington, D.C. -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the release of Egyptian political commentator Ahmed Douma, who was handed a one-year prison sentence on Wednesday over his criticism of conditions inside Egypt's prisons.

[New Times] An Egyptian judge on a three-member panel issued a dissenting opinion as the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruled that the United Kingdom does not have to pay Rwanda more than £100 million in compensation over the cancelled mig...

[HRW] Beirut -- Obstacles, Ineffective Quotas, Inaccessible Workplaces Deepen Economic Insecurity

What do spaghetti dinners, awkward shopping trips, and puberty have in common? They are in scenes in one of the best Egyptian short films of the year. The short film, 32B: Mashakel Dakhilia (32B: Internal Conflicts), 2026, takes a topic Egyptian cine...

On a quiet street in Cairo, a group of men gathers around a small ahwa, a traditional Egyptian coffeehouse. Tea glasses line the table. One man scrolls through a football match on his phone. Another stares into the street, cigarette in hand. A chessb...

  The Egyptian Football Association announced that the “seven stars” traditionally shown on the national team jersey, symbolizing Egypt’s seven Africa Cup of Nations titles, will be removed for the current World Cup after a Fédération In...

I first stepped into the City of the Dead on a sunny afternoon in December 2021. It was my first time walking through this historic necropolis, a city within the city, where the living and the dead share space in quiet resilience. Cairo’s chaotic r...

Before Anghami, Spotify playlists and viral TikTok sounds, there was the soft click of a cassette sliding into place, the whirr of tape rewinding, and album covers that told stories before a single note played. Across Egypt, these tapes once carried ...