The National Telecoms Regulatory Authority (NTRA) recently announced an increase in the use of electronic smart wallets to 16.3 million between January and June this year, a 16 per cent increase compared to 14.1 million in the first half of 2020.
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On Saturday, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated several housing projects in Badr city. The new housing developments range from social housing complexes designed to accommodate relocated slum residents to residential units intended for (...)
Land allocated for rice cultivation was slightly reduced this year to 1.074 million feddans, down from 1.084 million feddans in recent years. Rice, a summer crop cultivated between April and October, is one of the highest water-consuming crops, (...)
In the first week of July, the Egyptian press and talk shows reported on the low yields of the mango harvest this year, based on complaints by growers in Ismailia, home to about one third of Egypt's mango crop.
Mangoes are a summer fruit in high (...)
The government plans to declare Egypt slum-free by the end of this year. There are 357 areas identified as slums. They cover one per cent of Egypt's inhabited land and are home to a little over a million people, according to Khaled Seddik, executive (...)
The first forum for the heads of African investment-promotion agencies was held between 11 and 14 June in Egypt in partnership with ministries and investment agencies from 24 African countries. Prime among the forum's participants was Sudanese (...)
A number of programmes are being started in Egypt to help empower Egyptian and African women entrepreneurs, among them the social-media platform "50 Million African Women have a Voice", commented Tarek Shash, deputy director of Egypt's Micro, Small, (...)
The government has laid out a strategy to improve people's quality of life in cities and the countryside based on introducing unorthodox mechanisms to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Medhat Massoud, head of the Central Sector for (...)
The saga of the six-day Suez Canal shutdown and the associated standstill of global shipping has ended, leaving 400 stranded ships at the northern and southern end of this key global waterway free to make their way through the canal.
However, as (...)
In September last year, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi gave the green light to a national plan to establish new milk collection centres countrywide and to upgrade the existing network.
Although Egypt has fewer dairy-producing livestock than some (...)
A week ago, an extraordinary general assembly of the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company decided to liquidate its steel plants and spin off its mining activities. The loss-making company, established in the early 1950s, will have to sell off six million (...)
Earlier this week the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) issued a report stating that Egypt had the highest coronavirus death rates in the region, followed by Iran, Iraq and Pakistan. The report (...)
Stakes in two companies affiliated to the National Service Products Organisation (NSPO) affiliated to the Ministry of Defence will be up for grabs this year, said Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala Al-Said two weeks ago.
The two (...)
A 98-year-old man with a serious heart condition had to have heart valve surgery in one of Port Said governorate's hospitals last month. The cost of the operation was LE600,000 of which the elderly patient paid nothing, thanks to the newly (...)
A 98-year-old man with a serious heart condition had to have heart valve surgery in one of Port Said governorate's hospitals last month. The cost of the operation was LE600,000 of which the elderly patient paid nothing, thanks to the newly (...)
A 98-year-old man with a serious heart condition had to have heart valve surgery in one of Port Said governorate's hospitals last month. The cost of the operation was LE600,000 of which the elderly patient paid nothing, thanks to the newly (...)
It is imperative for Egypt's development that projects be run by qualified people who can manage the country's advanced projects. However, for this to be the case, the country's education system has to be able to produce them writes Ahmed (...)
The Ministry of Education launched the second phase of its public-private partnership (PPP) programme to build 1,000 language schools up until the year 2030 this week, with these offering quality education to Egyptian students.
Investment in this (...)
The recent reconciliation law on building code violations prohibits the settlement of violations to the code concerning buildings built on state land, river embankments, or heritage sites. Settlement will also be denied on buildings that are not (...)
While Egypt's agricultural exports were slightly affected by the global lockdowns introduced to halt the spread of the coronavirus, revenues did not decrease due to the increase in international prices on the back of the low supply of commodities (...)
Within one month the grace period for settling a range of building violations will end, according to a recent announcement by the cabinet extending the deadline to the end of October. Fines collected in return for settlement will be used to provide (...)
Iraq's ambassador to Cairo and permanent representative to the Arab League Ahmed Nayef Al-Dulaimi held a series of meetings with Egypt's ministers of housing, investment, industry, and international cooperation last week to discuss the participation (...)
The construction sector in Egypt is receiving the lion's share of letters of guarantee issued by the banking system, followed by the import-export sector, said Amr Kamal, a member of the Letters of Guarantee Committee at the International Chamber of (...)
Non-profit private universities are “a new generation of Egyptian universities”, as described in a press release from the Ministry for Higher Education and Scientific Research. King Salman International University (KSIU) in Sinai, Alamein (...)
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on lifestyles has been pervasive, and will likely be long-lasting. Its effects on the world economy have been dramatic, with some of the largest national economies shrinking by 30 per cent, and growth rates (...)