Tag: Egypt
Coffins Closed for Over 2,500 Years Unearthed in Egypt
Egypt on Saturday announced the unearthing of a cache of ancient coffins at a major necropolis near Cairo, the second such find in the same ... Read More
Photos: President Buhari Arrives Cairo International Airport
Arrival of President muhammadu Buhari , Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri Maimala Buni Godwin Obaseki , among several others who are on the President's entourage at ... Read More
Buhari to Attend Peace, Development Forum in Egypt
President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Tuesday for Aswan, Egypt to attend the Aswan Forum designed to set “An Agenda for Sustainable Peace and ... Read More
Team Nigeria Top Table With 21 Gold Medals At Africa Cup Track Cycling
Team Nigeria topped the medals table with 21 gold at the maiden edition of the Africa Cup Track Cycling on Sunday in Abuja. The News ... Read More
Egypt fans bitter as unloved team crash out of African Cup
Egyptian football fans reacted with anger and sorrow after the host team tumbled out of the Africa Cup of Nations in the second round, following ... Read More
Super Eagles First Team to Qualify for AFCON Round of 16
Super Eagles beat their group B opponents Guinea 1-0 to remain at the top of the Group with six points from two matches and qualify ... Read More
Femi Kuti to Perform at AFCON 2019 Opening ceremony
The Organising Committee of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) has announced that Nigeria’s legendary Afro-beat singer Femi Anikulapo-Kuti will perform at the opening ... Read More
Why Rohr dropped Iheanacho from Super Eagles’ 2019 AFCON squad
Facts are beginning to emerge why Super Eagles Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr dropped Leicester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho from the list of 23-man squad for ... Read More
Military kills 52 suspected militants in Sinai
Egyptian security forces pressing a campaign against hardliner militants have killed 52 suspected militants in the Sinai Peninsula in operations in which three soldiers also ... Read More
U.S. First Lady Melania Trump set to visit Africa
Melania Trump to visit Africa October U.S. First Lady Melania Trump will visit Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt next month on her first solo trip abroad. ... Read More
Super Eagles Express Confidence Despite Egypt, Morocco Losses
Super Eagles’ head coach Gernot Rohr and captain Mikel Obi say the team is capable of delivering on its promise on Saturday against Vatreni of ... Read More
Late Goal Gives Uruguay a Narrow Win Over Egypt
Uruguay were made to work overtime before finally edging a late 1-0 win over Egypt in their opening Group A contest in Ekaterinburg. Defender Jose ... Read More
Liverpool Manager, Jurgen Klopp Heartfelt Letter To Mo Salah
Liverpool's Mohamed Salah was set a target of reaching 35 goals and assists combined in his first season with the Reds in order to trigger ... Read More
African teams at 2018 World Cup to receive $2m advance
The five African qualified teams for the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup will each receive an advance of two million dollars of their prize money ... Read More
Preliminary Results Show Egypt’s Sisi Leading Voting
Preliminary results show President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi is leading Egypt’s presidential election with 21.5 million votes, state-owned newspaper Akhbar el-Youm reported on Thursday. Egyptians cast their ... Read More
Mo Salah, Asisat Oshoala win AITEO CAF Awards for 2017
Egypt and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah on Thursday emerged as the African Player of the Year 2017, with Super Falcons’ Asisat Oshoala being named the ... Read More
2018 World Cup: CAF offers $500,000 to each African representative for preparations
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has said it would grant financial subsidy of $500,000 (about N175 million) to each of the five African representatives ... Read More
Egypt Attack: Over 230 People Killed at Sinai Mosque
Militants killed more than 230 people at a mosque in North Sinai on Friday, detonating a bomb and gunning down worshippers in the deadliest such ... Read More
Uganda Upsets Egypt, Tops Group On The Road To Russia 2018
Cranes of Uganda got a hugely important three points for the Russia 2018 World Cup Qualifying race in Group E of the Africa qualifiers. The ... Read More
Saudi King Cancels Participation In G20 Summit Due To Gulf Crisis
Saudi King cancels participation in G20 summit due to Gulf crisis Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Al-Saud will not attend the G20 summit due to the ... Read More