Our website use cookies to improve and personalize your experience and to display advertisements (if any). Our website may also include cookies from third parties like Google Adsense, Google Analytics, and Youtube. By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies.

Egypt agrees with AD Ports to develop Red Sea tourism terminals

Egypt agrees with AD Ports to develop Red Sea tourism terminals

EGYPT initialed an agreement with Abu Dhabi's AD Ports Group to develop, operate and maintain terminals for passengers and cruise lines at the Red Sea ports of Hurghada, Safaga and Sharm El Sheikh, its transport ministry said. The contract will also commit AD Ports Group to develop yacht and cruise ship tourism in Egypt, the ministry statement said. "This contract will contribute to operating cruise lines between Zayed Port and Safaga, Hurghada and Sharm El-Sheikh and, later, Arabian Gulf ports, Aqaba and Europe and Asia," the statement added, without giving the value or duration of the contract. Egypt last week signed…
Read More
‘They told us they hate Africans’

‘They told us they hate Africans’

MAYA GEBEILY KABRIRAT Olokunde, a Nigerian migrant worker, planned to spend her birthday with friends in the city of Abu Dhabi. Instead, she turned 28 in a frigid prison cell, one of about 700 Africans imprisoned by Emirati authorities without charge. In unparalleled mass arrests, the workers were jailed with "no legal justification" on the night of June 24-25 and later started being deported, said ImpACT International for Human Rights Policies and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. "I celebrated my birthday in chains, with no mattress," Olokunde said by phone from the Nigerian city of Lagos, where she was deported…
Read More
Ousted Mali president Keita leaves country as transition talks begin

Ousted Mali president Keita leaves country as transition talks begin

TIEMOKO DIALLO OUSTED  Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has left the country for medical treatment in Abu Dhabi, an adviser said, as talks about a transition back to civilian rule following last month's military coup got off to a chaotic start. Keita, 75, was hospitalised in the capital Bamako on Tuesday, six days after he was released from detention by the ruling junta, which seized power on Aug. 18. His former chief of staff, Mamadou Camara, told Reuters that Keita left Bamako on Saturday evening aboard a plane chartered by the United Arab Emirates at the request of Mali's ruling…
Read More