Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
The Red Sea Health Directorate will run a limited polio vaccination round in Hurghada from 25 to 29 October for children from one day old to five years, with fixed teams at four points in the city and mobile teams visiting schools and nurseries.
15 October 2026
The ship "Kafy" left the old port of El Quseir for India in 1916 with Egypt's first phosphate export. The mines, the Italian quarter and the cemetery of 24 Italians and one child remain in the town today.
15 October 2026
About 16 kilometres from the abandoned phosphate village of Umm Huwaitat, water comes out of the rock some five metres above the ground. Youm7 reports the spring is a fixed stop on the desert safari trips that run from the resorts around Safaga, Soma Bay and Makadi.
15 October 2026
Residents of both towns say the gap between pumping cycles has stretched to about eight days, with families hauling jerrycans home by tuk-tuk. The governor had ordered Safaga's intervals cut to five days.
14 October 2026
Red Sea Governor Walid El-Barqi met workshop owners on 14 October about the unfinished Craftsmen's City in Hurghada. A count of workshops, their owners and those entitled to a plot is to come first. No date, number or completion timetable was given.
14 October 2026
A Red Sea dive instructor names the nine wrecks divers ask for most, and a Hurghada marine scientist explains why the hulls are now reef. The report gives no depths, locations or prices.
14 October 2026
Red Sea Governorate has listed the Hurghada areas where telecom cabling and coverage are being replaced or upgraded — among them El Hadaba, El Kawther, Abu Ashara, the Mubarak housing blocks, the Mamsha and the Tourist Centre. No timetable and no outage warning were published.
14 October 2026
Egypt's national water and sanitation authority says a seawater desalination plant producing 10,000 cubic metres a day and an integrated sewage scheme sized for 12,500 to 25,000 cubic metres a day are under construction in Marsa Alam. No completion dates, costs or contractors were given.
14 October 2026
Al-Ahram reports a large enforcement sweep in Hurghada's North District that removed 107 occupancy cases — the second clean-up of its kind in the city within five days. The streets covered have not been published.
14 October 2026
Officers at Safaga port found human medicines, medical devices and cosmetics packed among personal effects in a car arriving from Duba in Saudi Arabia. Duties and compensation come to 16.62 million pounds, the Customs Authority says.
13 October 2026
Red Sea Governor Walid El-Borqi has set 31 December 2026 as the deadline to regularise project land that changed hands on a sale power of attorney, against a fee of 1 per cent of current market value — and building work must be finished by 30 September 2029.
13 October 2026
Red Sea Governorate has set aside places for Real Estate Tax Authority staff inside the technology centres at its main offices and the district offices, to talk property owners through filing their declarations electronically. No deadline or opening hours were given.
13 October 2026