Egypt’s Sisi sworn in for second term after landslide election victory

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in on Saturday for a second four-year term in office during a special parliament session broadcast ...

King Salman congratulates Egypt’s Sisi on his victory in presidential election

Saudi King Salman congratulated on Monday the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi who won a second term at the country’s recently held ...

Egypt’s Sisi re-elected with 97 percent of votes

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected with 97 percent of votes, the exact proportion that brought the former military commander ...

Sisi leads polls while Egypt awaits election turnout

Preliminary results show President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is leading Egypt’s presidential election with 21.5 million votes, state-owned newspaper ...

Sisi seeks high turnout in Egypt presidential election

Egypt votes on Monday in a presidential election set to deliver an easy win for incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,Sisi, 63, who led the military’s ...

Egypt freezes assets of government critic Abul Fotouh

Egypt has frozen the assets of leading government critic Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh, arrested earlier this month over alleged links to exiled members of ...

Egypt Islamist Al-Nour party backs Sisi’s re-election bid

Egypt’s ultra-conservative Islamist Al-Nour party has decided to support President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in his bid to be re-elected in March, ...

Egypt’s Wafd party decides not to field presidential candidate

One of Egypt's oldest political parties decided not to field a candidate to challenge President Abdel-fattah el-Sisi in March elections, ending days ...

The rise and fall of Egyptian presidential hopeful Sami Anan

In the early hours of Saturday January 20, former Egyptian Chief of Staff Major General Sami Anan announced his intention to run for president in the ...

Sadat nephew will not stand in upcoming Egypt election

Mohamed Anwar Sadat, a dissident and nephew of Egypt’s late president of the same name, said on Monday he will not run in this year’s ...

Egypt ex-PM Ahmed Shafiq will not stand for president in 2018

Former Egyptian premier Ahmed Shafiq on Sunday announced he will not stand in the 2018 presidential elections, reversing a pledge to challenge at ...

Alliance loyal to Sisi dominates Egypt parliamentary election

An electoral alliance loyal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has dominated the parliamentary election, the election committee said on Friday ...

Less than third of voters turn out in Egypt election

The 29.9 percent turnout was only marginally higher than the 26.6 percent registered in the first stage of voting last month

An ‘election without voters?’ Egypt in second day of parliamentary vote

Egyptians appeared to be shunning the ballot box for a second day on Monday in what one newspaper called "an election without voters", ...

Explainer: How Egyptians are voting in the parliamentary elections

Voters are mostly voting for a list of parties under each “party-list” umbrella

Turnout low in Egypt’s parliament vote

Most voters were elderly or middle-aged, in a country where half the rapidly-growing population is under 25

Egyptians to vote for parliament in October

The polls had initially been scheduled for early 2014 but were repeatedly delayed on legal grounds

Egypt brands law banning dual-nationals in parliament ‘unconstitutional’

The Supreme Constitutional Court’s ruling enables a further delay in parliamentary elections which were scheduled to begin in March

How much longer until Egypt’s parliamentary elections?

Egypt was due to have a parliamentary election soon, but once again it faces further delays

Egypt postpones parliamentary polls after ruling on election law

Following the ruling, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered the law to be redrafted within a month

1800GMT: Sisi’s speech at Quba palace after he was sworn in as president

Egypt political parties concerned over new parliamentary election law

In the new law there is a return to a system where individual candidates take the majority of seats in parliament

Sisi to follow Egypt’s inauguration tradition

Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi will likely abide by a clearly defined protocol of speeches and ceremonies before launching his term in office

Egypt’s new president: an incomplete victory

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s victory was not a surprise, but the percentage he scored was

In Egypt, ecstatic cheers drown out voices of wisdom

The problem of politics in Egypt is that it’s no good at listening to people

Report: Al Jazeera provided ‘worst’ Egypt election coverage

A media watchdog said Al-Jazeera’s Mubashir Misr’s election coverage was ‘shockingly inconsistent on a professional, political and ethical level’

Obama ‘looking forward’ to working with Sisi

Sisi's presidency may herald a new era for relations between Egypt and the U.S. after soured ties since Mursi’s ouster

Adly Mansour: first Egypt president to enjoy ‘safe’ exit

During a televised address to the public, Mansour urged citizens to rise to their responsibilities in order to face political, economic and security challenges

Tweeps poke fun at Egypt’s Sisi as ‘man with a tan’

Twitter users took to social media to poke fun at the not-so-TV-ready president-elect who won 96.9 percent of the votes

President-elect to Egyptians: ‘Time to work’

Al-Sisi brings Egypt into a new phase in its tumultuous drama