Egypt

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - The Suez Canal Authority is considering expanding the southern section of the waterway where the container ship Ever Given became stranded, its chairman said on Tuesday.

It is also looking into procuring cranes that could potentially offload cargo at heights of up to 250 metres (820 ft), Osama Rabie told Reuters in an interview.

“Our procedures are sound, we are just aiming to improve the service,” he said.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that the latest round of talks on the Ethiopian Renaissance dam with Ethiopia and Sudan in Kinshasa over April 4-5 made no progress.

Delegations from the three countries were meeting in the Democratic Republic of Congo hoping to break the deadlock in negotiations over a project Ethiopia says is key to its economic development and power generation.

Egypt fears the dam will imperil its supplies of Nile water, while Sudan is concerned about the dam’s safety and water flows through its own dams and water stations.

06 Apr 2021; MEMO: The family of an outspoken Egyptian asylee living in Chicago has just appeared in court following more than two months of forcible disappearance.

Aly Hussin Mahdy's father, uncle, and cousin were arrested in Egypt at the beginning of February following a series of videos Aly posted online speaking out about human rights abuses committed by the Egyptian government.

CAIRO/KHARTOUM, Apr 3 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, flew to Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), for a new round of talks over Ethiopia’s Nile dam.

In a statement, the Egyptian foreign ministry said, Shoukry, along with Egypt’s water minister, headed to Kinshasa at an invitation from the DRC, the current chair of the African Union, for a new round of talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

CAIRO (Reuters) - Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said that all 422 ships stranded by the grounding of the giant container ship Ever Given passed through the canal by Saturday, ending the backlog caused by the blockage.

Head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Osama Rabie has announced that Egypt is studying the expansion of the canal to avoid further incidents similar to the grounding of the Ever Given cargo ship, which lead to six days of navigation disruption.

On Thursday evening, Rabie confirmed to CNN that there is no need to increase the canal's depth (24 metres).

03 Apr 2021; MEMO: The Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics announced on Friday that the Egyptian population had reached 101,674,434, RT reported.

In February 2020, the Egyptian population reached 100 million. According to RT, the population stood at 94.8 million in April 2017.

CAIRO, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's Suez Canal Authority (SCA) will seek over 1 billion U.S. dollars in compensation for the losses caused by the container ship Ever Given that was stuck in the waterway and blocking navigation for six days, SCA chairman Osama Rabie has said.

The compensation for the losses and damages "will reach over 1 billion dollars," Rabie told a local TV channel on Wednesday. "This is the right of the state and we will not give it up."

31 Mar 2021; MEMO: Around 200,000 animals are likely to die after being stuck in the Suez Canal bottleneck without enough food or water to last them the rest of the journey.

Gabrile Paun, EU director for the NGO Animals International, has said that the worst maritime animal welfare tragedy in history could be unavoidable.

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Formal investigations into how the giant container ship Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal, shutting down shipping in the major global waterway for almost a week, begin on Wednesday, a canal official told Reuters.

Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Chairman Osama Rabie has suggested weather conditions, including high winds, and human error could have played a role in the grounding on March 23.