Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
A Hurghada language school searched pupils' bags and posted pictures of what it found on Facebook. Parents say the display looked like a police seizure statement — and that they should have been told the rules first.
28 September 2026
The Red Sea governor has opened an international art exhibition in Hurghada bringing together 65 artists from 21 countries, according to Twasl News — which does not give the venue or the dates.
28 September 2026
The food concept Grill Setup is bringing an open-fire cookout to Makani Beach Club in El Gouna on Friday 9 October, starting at 4pm and running late, according to CairoScene.
28 September 2026
Customs officers at Hurghada International Airport opened the luggage of a foreign passenger arriving from Belgium and found 407 assorted narcotic pills and a bottle labelled CBD, according to Youm7, Al-Masry Al-Youm, Sada El-Balad and Al-Ahram.
28 September 2026
El Gouna has opened Solarize-2, adding 8.6 MW to the 7.2 MW already built, as the town aims to generate more than 15 per cent of its own energy from renewable sources this year.
28 September 2026
Ministers are moving to tender two more desalination plants, in Hurghada and at Zafarana, while the four already tendered are followed up — and water tankers serving areas still on rotation are to be tracked more closely.
28 September 2026
After two weeks of term with classes uncovered, the Red Sea education undersecretary has ordered nine additional German teachers, a redistribution of existing staff, paid extra lessons and online lessons, saying no pupil will be left in a classroom without a teacher.
28 September 2026
The Red Sea education directorate has suspended lessons for two days and an Educational Buildings Authority committee will review the school's wiring, while prosecutors investigate Sunday's book-store fire that hundreds of pupils escaped unhurt.
28 September 2026
Civil Protection crews brought a fire in the school-book storeroom at Al-Mina Experimental Language School under control on Sunday morning. Every pupil was evacuated as a precaution and lessons resumed the same day.
27 September 2026
Barriers and iron chains placed in front of seven tourist businesses along Hurghada's Mamsha promenade have been removed, Ahram Gate reports — the third clearance of public space reported on this coast in a matter of days.
27 September 2026
South Hurghada district pulled down walls raised on two state-owned plots in the Herafeyeen area and says field monitoring will be stepped up over official holidays to catch unlicensed building early, according to Osoul Misr.
27 September 2026
A tourism industry figure says Marsa Alam's hotels will fill to between 85 and 90 percent on this week's flights, with fourth-quarter arrivals forecast 10 to 15 percent up on last year.
27 September 2026