Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
Egyptian hotel group Pickalbatros and Emirati company NG9 are targeting three new hotels in Marsa Alam at a combined $180 million, Arabic business outlets report. No sites, room counts or timeline have been given.
3 September 2026
Safaga's city chief has toured the Al-Rawda district — the scheme described locally as the town's alternative to informal settlements — Al-Ahram Gate reports.
2 September 2026
The governor has directed officials to complete Hurghada's block layout plans and to review the city's backlog of land-legalisation files, Al-Ahram Gate reports.
2 September 2026
The Red Sea Governorate's secretary-general has been checking progress on completing sewerage connections along Sheraton Road in Hurghada, two Egyptian outlets report.
2 September 2026
Surgeons at Hurghada General Hospital saved a patient's foot from amputation in a precise operation, Al-Ahram Gate reported on 25 August — the latest in a run of procedures the hospital says it can now handle on the coast.
2 September 2026
The two festivals have agreed a strategic partnership, FilmFestivals.com reported on 25 August — shortly after El Gouna named the first titles for its ninth edition, among them films by two Cannes prize-winners.
2 September 2026
The Transport Ministry has allocated EGP 2.5 billion to develop the Red Sea's ports and build up transit trade through them, Al-Manassa reported on 25 August. The report does not break the figure down by port.
2 September 2026
The company has pulled out of the competition to run the Red Sea coast's main airport, the financial news site Bawabat Blom reported on 23 August. No reason was given, and it is not clear who is still bidding.
2 September 2026
Hurghada General Hospital has carried out six full joint-replacement operations, all of them successful, according to reports on 25 August by Veto, Sada El-Balad and Ahram Gate.
1 September 2026
The Red Sea governor handed over the contracts for 52 fully finished flats to women supporting their families alone in Hurghada on 24 August, in an allocation Al-Masry Al-Youm puts at EGP 60 million.
1 September 2026
Local Development Minister Manal Awad and the Red Sea governor reviewed the governorate's solid-waste system, with EGP 376 million set aside to finish the infrastructure behind rubbish collection across the coast.
31 August 2026
The Arabic financial outlet Mubasher, citing Bloomberg, reports that Saudi developer Marakez is building a tourism project worth EGP 40 billion near Hurghada. Location, contents and timeline have not been reported.
28 August 2026