Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
A back-to-school exhibition selling supplies at up to 30 percent below retail has opened in El Quseir, Ahram Gate reports. Its location, hours and closing date were not given.
7 September 2026
Inspectors stopped construction on a plot in Hurghada's Al-Hijaz subdivision over structural and open-space violations, while El Quseir moved against building breaches the same day.
7 September 2026
The executive committee of the National Initiative for Smart Green Projects has started assessing the Red Sea's submitted projects, two Egyptian outlets report. Numbers, sectors and timing were not published.
7 September 2026
The Egyptian outlet says Marsa Alam is in line for an integrated hospital plus repairs to its roads and utility networks, with backing from the Sukari gold mine — and that energy, water and air links are the three problems being tackled for investors in the town. The reports are headline-level, with no cost, timetable or contractor given.
7 September 2026
The Cairo daily says it documented hundreds of trees along the Hurghada road reduced to bare frames, prompting what it describes as an urgent response from the Red Sea Governorate.
6 September 2026
Minister of Electricity Mahmoud Esmat met an Orascom Construction delegation to review the 900 MW wind project on the Red Sea coast at Ras Shukeir and stressed sticking to the timetable and connecting it to the national grid.
6 September 2026
The Red Sea governor has directed officials to draw up an inventory of the money the state is owed by the mining company Centamin at Marsa Alam and to strengthen the company's community work in the area, Al-Bawaba News reports.
6 September 2026
The Red Sea governor has announced six free scholarships at Sinai University for students from the governorate, Shorouk News reports. The report gives no fields of study, criteria or application route.
6 September 2026
The Ministry of Youth and Sports has sent the first group of its 'Know Your Country' domestic trips to Hurghada at a fee of EGP 1,500 per person, Al-Watan reports.
6 September 2026
The Red Sea governor has told officials to speed up the fit-out of Marsa Alam's new local unit building ahead of its opening, and issued directives on the town's nursing school and on money owed to the state.
6 September 2026
The Red Sea governor handed 97 housing units to the families entitled to them in Marsa Alam, Ahram Gate and Shorouk News report. Neither outlet names the housing scheme or gives a cost.
6 September 2026
A 30,000-tonne aluminium shipment from Indonesia has been unloaded at Safaga Port, which handled 40,000 tonnes of cargo in total, Egyptian outlets report.
6 September 2026