Egypt issued on Thursday US-dollar dominated eurobonds in three types with a total amount of about $3 billion, the Ministry of Finance announced on Friday.
Eurobonds issuance is one of the debt instruments the country resorts to in order to finance (...)
Huawei Technologies has invested about $10 million over the past five years to set up three innovation centres in Cairo, according to Vice President of Global Communications at Huawei Technologies Karl Song.
Song's comments came in response to a (...)
Following last week's UN Security Council (UNSC) statement urging Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan to resume negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) under the auspices of the African Union (AU), Christophe Lutundula, the foreign (...)
The heads of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank Group (WBG), World Health Organization (WHO) and World Trade Organisation (WTO) met with the CEOs of leading vaccine manufacturing companies to discuss strategies to improve the access (...)
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has maintained the overnight deposit rate, overnight lending rate, and the rate of the main operation unchanged at 8.25 percent, 9.25 percent, and 8.75 percent, respectively.
The (...)
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) will convene on Thursday to review the key interest rates for the sixth time in 2021.
In the last meeting — held on 5 August — the MPC decided to maintain the CBE's current (...)
Egyptian expats' remittances jumped to an unprecedented rate of 13.2 percent in FY 2020/2021 to post $31.4 billion, up from $27.8 billion in FY 2019/2020, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced on Wednesday.
CBE data showed that Egyptian expats' (...)
Egypt launched its new National Strategy for Human Rights earlier this week from the New Administrative Capital. The strategy will run until 2026 and address civilian and political rights; economic, social and cultural rights; the rights of (...)
Green recovery, securing development finance, and mobilising international efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while recovering from the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic were the main topics at the two-day (...)
The International Financial Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, announced on Tuesday that it has provided the UAE-based BCI Holding SA Group — a leading regional manufacturer and distributor of polyurethane (PU) raw materials, (...)
On Saturday a summit between Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and his Cypriot counterparty Nicos Anastasiades gave a boost to Egyptian-Cypriot relations as well as their ties with Greece in preparation for next month's three-pronged (...)
The second round of exploratory talks between Egypt and Turkey took off in Ankara on Tuesday amid low expectations that it would lead to a breakthrough in relations between the two countries. Relations between the two have been tense since 2013 over (...)
The Global Finance magazine has chosen the Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Tarek Amer as among the top-ten central banks' governors list for 2021, awarding him "A" grade.
The list contains the central bank governors who earned "A" or (...)
The Ministry of Planning and Economic Development and the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources have inked a cooperation protocol concerning financing the implementation of natural gas grid projects in accordance with the Decent Life (...)
As the world deals with the repercussions of two years of the Covid-19 pandemic that have slowed down efforts to meet the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are slated to be reached by 2030, Egypt's Ministry of International Cooperation (...)
Egypt plans to raise the Suez Canal's contribution to the GDP in the current FY2021/2022 by 5.6 percent so that it may reach EGP 99.3 billion (in fixed prices), up from EGP 93.9 billion in FY2020/2021, Minister of Planning and Economic Development (...)
Egypt's Ministry of International Cooperation has announced that it will launch the 'Egypt - International Cooperation Forum (ICF): Engaging for Impact' on 8 September over two days, under the patronage of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, with (...)
The Arab Contractors, working in cooperation with El-Sewedy Electric company, successfully installed the first turbine in the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station and Dam project in Tanzania last week.
The $2.9 billion project, a partnership between (...)
The Africa Singapore Business Forum (ASBF), a platform for business exchange and boosting trade between Africa and Asia, kicked off on Monday for its sixth edition and is scheduled to conclude on 27 August.
Organised by Enterprise Singapore, a (...)
Germany is set to allocate soft development funds to the tune of €151.5 million to finance 15 development projects in eight sectors in Egypt, the Ministry of International Cooperation announced on Wednesday.
The sectors are technical education, (...)
Egypt's Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat met on Sunday with Japanese Ambassador to Egypt Masaki Noke to discuss Egyptian-Japanese economic relations and future development cooperation projects.
The meeting came as part of (...)
In an interview with Al-Ahram Weekly, director of financial institutions at the international ratings agency Fitch Ratings Zeinab Abdallah described the operating environment of Egypt's banks, explaining why the agency has upgraded its outlook for (...)
The World Bank Group (WBG) has extended finance support worth $84.3 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2021, 15 percent higher than FY2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its related repercussions.
In its report on FY2021 (1 July 2020 to 30 June (...)
Egypt's Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat along with Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar signed an agreement with the Japanese Embassy and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) (...)
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) decided to maintain interest rates for the sixth time in a row since December 2020.
It decided to keep the overnight deposit rate, overnight lending rate and the rate of the main (...)