Egypt's Ministry of Tourism will be using various outlets and means during the World Cup to attract attention to Egypt as a tourist destination, Minister of Tourism Rania Al-Mashat announced in a speech on Wednesday night.
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Egypt's international hit 3 Daqat singer-songwriter-composer Abu released on Wednesday a new song for the World Cup called Etfar3an, in cooperation with Chipsy, two days before Egypt's first match against Uruguay set for Friday in Russia.
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The Central Bank of Egypt will most likely keep interest rates unchanged during its upcoming Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on Thursday, a number of economists have said.
Deposit and lending rates are currently at 16.75 and 17.75 percent (...)
Egypt's annual urban consumer price inflation (headline inflation) slowed to 13.1 percent in April from 13.3 percent in March, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said on Thursday.
Annual core inflation recorded 11.6 percent in April, compared to 11.59 (...)
As I wait anxiously at AUC Avenue at 9:30am for my bus ride, I get a phone call from an unknown number; it is the bus captain from Swvl (pronounced swivel), a fast-growing bus ride-sharing application in Egypt.
Swvl uses vehicles rented from tourism (...)
Facebook announced on Thursday it has introduced new profile picture features for users in Egypt and three other countries, to allow users, particularly women, to protect their privacy and safety.
The new Profile Picture Guard feature allows users (...)
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) cut key interest rates by 100 basis points on Thursday, the bank said in a press release.
The overnight deposit rate was lowered to 17.75 percent from 18.75 percent, and the overnight lending rate was cut to 18.75 (...)
Egypt is working on infrastructure investments that will transform it into a regional hub for oil and gas trading, capitalizing on the needs of various companies to store their petroleum products, Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said at Al-Ahram's (...)
Egypt's diversified geological composition and its strong local market of about 100 million people offer competitive edges for oil-and-gas sector investments, BP Country Manager Nader Zaki said at Al-Ahram's first energy conference on Monday.
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Egypt is in talks with Saudi Arabia for an electricity interconnection project at a total investment cost of $1.56 billion and with a 3000 megawatt capacity, Electricity Minister Mohamed Shaker said Monday at an Al-Ahram energy conference.
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Egypt is looking to buy the shares of foreign partners in Egyptian natural gas, petroleum minister Tarek El-Molla said at Al-Ahram's first energy conference on Monday.
The minister said the gas produced will first be used to meet local demand before (...)
The official opening of Egypt's super-giant Zohr gas field is set for Wednesday, Mario Bello, Eni representative and Agiba Petroleum Company managing director, said at Al-Ahram's first Energy conference on Tuesday.
Agiba is a joint venture between (...)
International ride-hailing company Uber will invest $20 million in the next five years in the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Cairo's Fifth Settlement, Uber Vice President and Head of Operations EMEA Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty said at the centre's (...)
Abo Tarek, the famous koshary outlet in the heart of Downtown Cairo that achieved a Guinness world record last year for the biggest plate of food, enough to feed 14,000 people, started as a street cart.
The recipe of koshary, one of Egypt's (...)
The wealthiest 10 percent of citizens in Egypt are responsible for 25 percent of the total expenditure of Egyptians, while the poorest 10 percent are responsible for only 4 percent of the total expenditure, reflecting the huge gap in living (...)
In a speech to the Japanese Parliament on Monday morning, El-Sisi praised the Japanese economic development experience, discussed Egypt's completed roadmap towards state-institutions building, counted investment opportunities for Japanese (...)
The country will be hit by a wave of hot weather on Tuesday and Wednesday, with temperatures expected to rise by 10 to 12 degrees Celsius higher than average at this time of the year, meteorologists told state news agency MENA.
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The World Bank Group (WBG) will participate at Egypt's Economic Development Conference with a high level delegation,Poonam Gupta,acting country director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti, told Ahram Online on Sunday.
“The World Bank is committed to (...)
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir will visit Egypt on Saturday and Sunday, at the invitation of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Sudan's presidential press secretary Emad Ahmed told Ahram Online on Tuesday.
The two presidents will discuss the (...)
Police fired tear gas to disperse protests by hundreds of Al-Azhar University students Sunday at the university's male section in Nasr City, acting Al-Azhar student union president Mohamed Atef told Ahram Online.
Students also broke through the (...)
Students who want to live in Al-Azhar University's dorms this year have found something new: a black-and-white form they must sign.
"I promise…that I will not participate in any political activities at the university dorms…I also promise that I will (...)
No police will be stationed inside Egypt's university campuses, said Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab on Friday, signaling a possible ease in curbs on student demonstrations ahead of the new academic year.
"There will be no university guards inside (...)
An underground car park will open in Cairo's Tahrir Square in early October, officials have said.
The opening will coincide with 6 October War celebrations, Cairo governor Galal Mostafa Said told Al-Ahram daily newspaper.
The car park was built on (...)
Winter of Discontent, a film on a concoction of lives during Egypt's revolution, will compete in the Venice Film Festival, scheduled from 29 August – 18 September.
The film is the latest by Egyptian director, Ibrahim El-Batout. Unlike his earlier (...)