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 (...)
From March to June this year Egypt's farmers were busy harvesting the country's white gold — cotton. With 180,000 feddans cultivated, most of the harvest, reaching 1.2 million qantars, was long-staple cotton.
The Agriculture Ministry's cotton (...)
Egypt will be free of dangerous informal housing areas by the end of the year, making safe the lives of the 1.2 million people who currently live in such areas, the government has said in its massive strategy to improve their quality of (...)
This year's wheat harvest has been successfully completed, with the Finance Ministry paying farmers LE16 million in return for 3.7 million tons of wheat, according to the Ministry of Supply.
The season, lasting from mid-April to mid-July, delivered (...)
The third phase of the Asmarat project to rehouse residents of slum areas was inaugurated this week. Home to 124 residential buildings with a total of 7,298 units, the project has been completed at a cost of LE1.75 billion.
The development, in (...)
Despite its importance, technical education rarely receives the attention it deserves. It is more diverse than the Thanaweya Amma, the standardised tests leading to the General Secondary Education Certificate in Egypt, and comprises four (...)
Last month, the presidency announced that 250,000 social housing units were being constructed as part of the country's social housing programme targeting limited-income groups and those deserving subsidies.
Since the launch of the programme in 2015, (...)
It is the wheat harvest season and questions have been arising as to the quantity and quality of the crop this year.
Egypt produces 30 per cent of its wheat consumption and imports the rest from different countries. Global and domestic challenges (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi approved a bill establishing Egypt's Agricultural Solidarity Fund (ASF) in 2014, with the aim of supporting farmers in natural disasters, such as floods, storms, and the invasion of pests and diseases affecting the (...)
