Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
The Red Sea Governorate has asked the Government Services Authority to re-value youth land plots in Hurghada and Ras Ghareb whose contracts were never handed over, and a committee is due within days, Sada El-Balad reports.
3 October 2026
Hurghada International handled about 2,131,400 passengers in August and September, up 6.1% on last year and the highest figure of any Egyptian regional airport, according to Ministry of Civil Aviation data.
3 October 2026
The one-way layout that took effect in central Hurghada on 1 October has been postponed and the city's previous traffic directions restored while the scheme is studied further, according to Al-Ahram Gate.
3 October 2026
Residents of several Hurghada districts complained on Friday that the power is not only cutting out but coming back at unstable voltage, which they say risks damaging household appliances. They want the transformers checked and outages announced in advance.
2 October 2026
Red Sea Governorate has ordered every department and city council to refuse any power of attorney carrying the right to sell land until a high committee has examined it. It also warns that issuing such a document can void the original contract outright and let the state take the land back.
2 October 2026
Transport Minister Kamel El-Wazir says passengers should be riding the 660-kilometre Ain Sokhna–Marsa Matrouh high-speed line by July 2027. The line that would connect Qena with Hurghada and Safaga is the third in the programme, and no date was given for it.
2 October 2026
Air Cairo is due to open a non-stop Mombasa–Hurghada service on 26 December, flying twice a week with an Embraer 190 and taking Kenya's coast off the Cairo and Nairobi detour, according to the Kenya Association of Travel Agents.
2 October 2026
Arab Bridge Maritime says it has begun preparations to run passengers, trucks and freight between Safaga and Duba in Saudi Arabia, and the transport minister has backed the plan. Three vessels are joining the fleet, but no timetable, fares or frequency have been published.
2 October 2026
Field committees have cleared the culverts under the Hurghada–Ras Ghareb road and checked three dams and four artificial lakes west of the outer ring road, as the Red Sea Governorate raises readiness for the rain and flood season.
2 October 2026
The Red Sea Governorate has awarded the contract for Hurghada's first integrated shelter for free-roaming dogs: 23 million pounds, 2,200 square metres, 122 rooms, a veterinary operating theatre and swimming pools, due to be finished in eight months.
2 October 2026
The minarets and courtyard of Hurghada's seafront Grand Port Mosque went dark during summer load-shedding and have stayed that way. Red Sea Governor Walid Abdel Azim has written to the Endowments Minister asking for the lighting back, Al-Masry Al-Youm reports. No cost or timetable has been set.
2 October 2026
Hurghada University has approved bachelor's and professional master's programmes in hospitality management as dual degrees awarded with Vatel in France, in the sector that employs much of the coast.
1 October 2026