Muhamad Yehia .. Cairo The Victoria and Alfred Waterfront is a working harbour that incorporates 800 businesses such as shops and restaurants. 25 million people visit this Cape Town tourism hotspot every year, according to the V&A Waterfront. As well as shopping, commerce, sailing, shipping and residential buildings, the V&A …
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Arsenal get set to face Real Madrid in 1st leg of UCL quarter-finals
Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo rsenal trained at their London Colney base on Monday, on the eve of the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarter-final against reigning champions Real Madrid. Following two substitute appearances, Bukayo Saka looks set to return to Mikel Arteta’s starting eleven after a long lay-off, but …
Read More »African Union mediators hold talks to resolve political crisis in South Sudan
Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo African Union mediators arrived in South Sudan’s capital Juba on Wednesday for talks aimed at pulling the country back from the brink of a new civil war after First Vice President Riek Machar was placed under house arrest last week. President Salva Kiir’s government has accused Machar, …
Read More »France, Egypt, and Jordan hold talks on the situation in Gaza
Muuhamad Yehia.. Cairo French president Emmanuel Macron was welcomed to Cairo on Sunday by his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. At the centre of his three-day visit is a trilateral summit on Monday together with Jordan’s King Abdullah II. The talks will focus on the situation in Gaza as Israel …
Read More »Rwanda commemorates the 1994 genocide that claimed at least 800,000 lives
Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo Rwanda on Monday commemorated the 1994 genocide that claimed the lives of at least 800000 people, mostly from the Tutsi community, who were massacred by the Hutu militia. This year’s event is overshadowed by the ongoing crisis in the eastern DR Congo, where the Rwanda-backed M23 militia …
Read More »Kenya concludes probe into Agnes Wanjiru’s 2012 death linked to British soldiers
Muhamad Yehia .. Cairo Criminal investigators in Kenya said on Monday they have concluded a probe into the death of a young mother in 2012 who was last seen alive in the company of British solders who were in the country for training. The office of the public prosecutor said …
Read More »Libya devalues currency for first time in four years amid fiscal strain
Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo Libya’s central bank devalued the country’s currency by 13.3 per cent on Sunday amid ongoing fiscal strain. The exchange rate for the dinar has now been set at 5.5677 to the US dollar, effective immediately. This marks the first official devaluation of the currency since 2020 when …
Read More »Appeals Court Rules Against Trump Admin, Fired Board Members to be Reinstated
Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo The Trump administration must reinstate two board members who were fired, under a U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruling released on April 7. The full appeals court vacated a previous split panel decision that had stayed orders to reinstate Cathy Harris of …
Read More »German Foreign Minister Says Talks Over Truce in Ukraine Have Hit ‘Deadlock’
Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on April 1 that attempts to secure a truce in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine appear to have stalled. Arriving in Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Baerbock said it was “absolutely crucial” that European countries supported Ukraine …
Read More »Zimbabwe Axes All Tariffs on US Goods
Muhamad Yehia .. Cairo The president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has suspended all tariffs on goods from the United States, a few days after the White House imposed an 18 percent rate on imports from the African country. On Saturday, Mnangagwa wrote on X: “The principle of reciprocal tariffs, as …
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