Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
The Tourism Development Authority has signed off 16 plots totalling just over a million square metres at South Magawish, for projects adding 856 hotel rooms and two aqua parks — one of them under an international operator. No investors, costs or completion dates were published.
6 October 2026
Travco has contracted to buy 600,000 square metres of land in Marsa Alam for more than 69 million dollars and plans three five-star hotels with up to 1,200 rooms on it, according to Al Arabiya Business and Bloom Gate. No start or opening date is given.
6 October 2026
The National Authority for Potable Water and Sanitary Drainage is building a seawater desalination plant at Safaga with a capacity of up to 30,000 cubic metres a day, and extending sewerage to the Umm al-Huwaytat and Kilo 8 areas, Youm7 reports. No cost, contractor or completion date is given.
6 October 2026
The Egyptian Gazette reports that Hurghada International Airport is to be developed into a regional hub. The report carries no timetable, no investment figure and no named official, and does not say what hub status would mean in practice.
5 October 2026
Hurghada's South District says it demolished a rubble-and-brick wall enclosing about 600 square metres of state land in El Hadaba as soon as patrols found it — and that those patrols run around the clock, official holidays included.
5 October 2026
Red Sea Governor Walid El-Barqi has issued three executive decisions on Hurghada's road network, putting the governorate's roads department in direct charge of paving work and sending a four-body committee out to survey streets from 6 October. No street list, cost or start date has been published.
5 October 2026
A medical convoy from Assiut University set up at Sheikh Atta Primary School in El Quseir on Saturday, examining 612 people across six specialties and dispensing free medicine to 200 more.
5 October 2026
The ministry called price lists circulating online "completely baseless" and published the current pump prices. It follows reports, carried here on Sunday, that fuel could rise 10–15% once the committee sits this month.
5 October 2026
Youm7 has published footage of a dugong in the shallows at Abu Dabbab. The director of the Red Sea Protectorates named the four stretches of the Marsa Alam coast where the animal is present all year — and said numbers in the Red Sea are limited.
5 October 2026
A draft law being discussed with developers before it goes to Cabinet would force every buyer payment into a separate account for that project alone, with withdrawals tied to actual building progress, according to Daily News Egypt, which reviewed a preliminary copy.
5 October 2026
Abu Dabbab Bay, about 30 kilometres north of Marsa Alam and inside the Wadi el-Gemal reserve, is one of the Red Sea's best-known gathering places for green turtles, according to the Egyptian daily Youm7. The report gives no practical detail on access, fees or operators.
4 October 2026
Field campaigns in the Taqsim al-Hijaz district of Hurghada are reviewing engineering drawings and removing building violations, according to Ahram Gate. The report gives no figures, no lead authority and no end date.
4 October 2026