Ahmed Tolba

6 days ago | zawya.com | Ahmed Tolba |Muhammad Al Gebaly

CAIRO - Syria's flag carrier Syrian Air will resume direct flights to Dubai and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates starting on Sunday, the airline said in a Facebook post. All flights between Syria and the UAE had been suspended in January after Islamist-led rebels toppled former leader Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. The announcement comes days after the UAE's civil aviation authority announced the resumption of air flights between the Gulf country and Syria.

6 days ago | zawya.com | Muhammad Al Gebaly |Ahmed Tolba

CAIRO: Egypt's central bank lowered overnight interest rates by 225 basis points on Thursday, its first cut in more than five years, saying lower inflation had opened the way to yet further rate cuts in the future. The bank lowered the lending rate to 26% and the deposit rate to 25%. The median forecast in a Reuters poll of 17 analysts on Monday was for the central bank's Monetary Policy Committee to cut rates by 200 basis points.

1 week ago | timeslive.co.za | Hatem Maher |Ahmed Tolba |Tarek Amara

Algeria protested on Saturday against France's detention of an Algerian consular agent over an alleged kidnapping of an Algerian citizen in France, the latest tension between the two countries. The Algerian Foreign Ministry said that this unprecedented judicial turn, in the history of two countries' relations, was aimed at disrupting the process of reviving bilateral relations.

3 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Nidal al-Mughrabi |Ahmed Tolba

Cairo — Hamas has agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received two days ago from mediators Egypt and Qatar, the Palestinian militant group’s chief said on Saturday. “Two days ago, we received a proposal from the mediators in Egypt and Qatar. We dealt with it positively and accepted it,” Khalil al-Hayya said in a televised speech.

3 weeks ago | sightmagazine.com.au | Enas Alashray |Ahmed Tolba |David Adams

ReutersSyrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a transitional government on Saturday, a key milestone in the transition away from decades of Assad family rule and improving Syria’s ties with the West. Syria’s new Islamist-led authorities have been under pressure by the West and Arab countries to form a government that is more inclusive of the country’s diverse ethnic and religious communities.