Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
The Roads Authority has repaired the break in the carriageway at the General Company gate on the Ras Ghareb–Zafarana road, after an appeal posted on a social media page warned it could cause accidents.
17 October 2026
Youm7 has set out the youth, sports and social-service works under way in the Red Sea governorate town by town — from an acrylic court at Safaga's El Salam Club to relief centre work in Safaga, El Quseir, Shalatin and Ras Ghareb. No costs or completion dates are given.
17 October 2026
Red Sea Governor Walid El-Barqi ordered planning work finished quickly on the land for Hurghada's craftsmen's workshops, on a tour that also took in the wholesale market, a site allocated for a stray dog shelter and three housing sites.
17 October 2026
Marsa Alam's local unit has allocated a plot of land for an administrative headquarters for the Great Coral Reef protected area, meant to house the reserve's administrative and technical work. No building date, cost or site details have been given.
16 October 2026
The Maazah Centre for Culture and Heritage, in El Radda village 18 kilometres from Hurghada, has been given the 2026 responsible tourism award for Africa. It trains 100 young men in guiding and hospitality and 80 women in traditional crafts, and is run with the TUI Care Foundation.
16 October 2026
Governor Walid El-Barqi has moved Ahmed Gabr from Hurghada's South district to head Hurghada city, sent Mohamed El-Banna from Shalatin to lead Safaga and moved Ahmed Dongol from Safaga to Shalatin, in a transfer list that also fills a row of posts at the governorate head office.
16 October 2026
Hurghada's museum runs from prehistory to the age of Muhammad Ali along 11 corridors — nine of them for ancient Egypt — with statues of Queen Meritamun, three royal objects of Thutmose III, a collection of Islamic lustre pottery and cases showing bedouin tent furniture beside a howdah.
16 October 2026
The governorate's undersecretary for education has set up a joint committee to go through every administrative and technical side of Al-Gawhara Official Distinguished Language School, after an unannounced visit recorded poor administrative discipline and marked lateness in pupils' arrival. The school discipline code is to be applied and legal steps taken over anything the inspection proves.
16 October 2026
Hotels and restaurants in El Gouna are fully booked during the film festival, the town's chief executive, Mohamed Amer, told Dar Al-Maaref. He put El Gouna's capacity at 3,000 hotel rooms, with a plan to reach 4,000, and said the tourism effect reaches Hurghada as well.
15 October 2026
Marsa Alam International received 26 international flights from European airports over the course of Thursday, Tourism Daily News reports. No airlines, routes, passenger numbers or occupancy figures were given.
15 October 2026
Marsa Alam city has given four occupancy-legalisation contracts to residents of Sheikh El-Shazly village, and says it is continuing to work through tenure files for applicants who meet the legal conditions.
15 October 2026
Marsa Alam residents can put complaints and requests directly to the head of the city every Wednesday at the local unit headquarters, the city council says.
15 October 2026