Preliminary results from the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) 2023/2024 Income and Expenditure survey showed that Egyptian households spend an average of EGP 12,900 ($259) annually on smoking.
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Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced a five-day paid holiday for public sector employees to mark Eid Al-Adha.
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The Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy announced that there will be no electricity load shedding this summer, as was the case over the past two years.
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The Egyptian Ministry of Education and Technical Education signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the University of Cambridge to develop the English curriculum and teaching methodologies in the country’s public schools, a ministry statement said Wednesday evening.
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The Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) said on Wednesday that Egypt will continue to enjoy spring weather from Thursday to Tuesday.
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Egypt’s Ministry of Education and Technical Education has added 98,000 classrooms nationwide during the current academic year, reducing classroom density in public schools, some of which had previously accommodated over 200 students per class, to fewer than 50 on average per class.
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President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi directed exploring means to increase the number of beneficiaries of the Digilians initiative (Digital Pioneers), set to launch in September 2025, to achieve a leap in both the quantity and quality of skilled professionals in the communications and information technology sector.
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Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta announced that Egypt will celebrate the four-day Islamic feast, Eid Al-Adha, starting Friday, 6 June, after confirming the sighting of the moon for the Islamic month of Dhul-Hijja.
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Maritime navigation will be disrupted in the Gulf of Suez, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA).
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The diocese of Upper Egypt's Minya denied on Monday reports of an attack on Coptic Christians in the village of Manshyiat El-Hawaslya.
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Egypt launched on Monday the Memory of the City mobile application, a platform for exploring Cairo's treasures through interactive maps and stories about its history, distinctive architectural character, and streets.
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A small gas cylinder exploded at approximately 9:27 pm on Saturday while being carried in a bag by one of two men walking along Nile Corniche Street in Minya, according to a statement by the Ministry of Interior.
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Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced on Saturday that the state would cover up to 60 percent of the cost of social housing units as part of ongoing efforts to support low-income citizens.
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Egypt has repatriated 71 nationals from Libya following recent unrest in the capital, Tripoli, the foreign ministry stated on Saturday.
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Egypt is experiencing a severe heatwave from Saturday through Monday, before temperatures drop starting Tuesday.
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A 6.2-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale was recorded 499 km north of Marsa Matrouh in the Mediterranean Sea at 6:19am Cairo Time (GMT +3) on Thursday, according to Egypt’s National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG).
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President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi attended the 2025 wheat harvesting season event on Wednesday, calling on the private sector to invest in the 800,000 feddans that the Future of Egypt for Sustainable Development Authority plans to complete to make the land suitable for agriculture.
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The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) announced Tuesday a new set of regulatory and technical measures enabling citizens to identify better the identity of callers and deterrent steps against spammers, including a permanent ban on all networks.
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Maritime navigation will be disrupted on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea, with wind speeds reaching 50-70 km/h and waves rising up to 2.5-3.5 metres.
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The Egyptian Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF) and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology announced Sunday that they are accepting applications for the first Egypt-China Joint Research Laboratories Programme.
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