Egypt's Canal Sugar is negotiating for a new bridge loan worth 2 billion Egyptian pounds ($127.3 million) to help finance the construction of its new beet sugar factory, which aims to be world's biggest such plant.
The company spoke with the (...)
Egypt's two biggest state banks, the National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and Banque Misr have set up a new joint venture for urban development.
Egypt's urban development sector has seen a burst of activity as performance boomed in the second half of 2020, (...)
As part of its progress towards a more integrated regional organisation, and in reaction to events and opportunities, European Union (EU) policy towards the Mediterranean has evolved through several phases, from the Barcelona Process in 1995 to the (...)
As US Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Egypt last weekend to re-launch the strategic dialogue between Washington and Cairo he may well have reflected on the wider historical and geo-political significance of his trip. Symbolically, the visit (...)
Minister of Agriculture Salah Youssef has prohibited construction on reclaimed agricultural land. The law, effective immediately, exempts service facilities for farms, which could be built over 2 percent of the total land area.
“We shall take legal (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf held a private meeting with Minister of Education Ahmed Gamal el-Din before the Council of Ministers' meeting this morning.
Sharaf insisted on holding the meeting to be aware of the latest developments (...)
CAIRO - Selfishness may not be the best quality in human beings, but it is definitely in all of us. To a certain extent, people are as defined by their flaws as their virtues, as well as how these sides of the character interact.
Creating a (...)
Whether, and in what form, Egypt pursues civil nuclear energy, there is a need to change decision-making processes for such projects, writes Mohamed Anis Salem*
Over the last five years, Egypt's decision to resort to civil nuclear energy had been (...)
CAIRO: The capacity of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) will not exceed 100 seats in the Parliament, and all sects of Islamic trend will not win 35 percent of seats, said Attorney of General Guide of the MB, Mohammed Habib.
He added the MB cannot (...)
Post-revolution, Egypt has the chance to realign its foreign relations, if the right people with the right vision take the lead, writes Mohamed Anis Salem*
Sooner or later, the question of reviewing Egypt's foreign policy was going to crop up. In (...)
اذا كانت الحكومه لتسيير الاعمال او للخروج من عنق الزجاجه فما هى البدايه المبشره المؤشره للثقه؟
كان النظام يختار اصحاب الثقه لا اصحاب الخبره فى اداره شؤون العباد فهل تغير الاداء فى الاختيار كبدايه غير مكلفه للخزينه العامه
كان النظام القديم يهدف من (...)
Have Arab uprisings changed the regional order of states irreversibly, asks Mohamed Anis Salem*
The current wave of change in the Arab world, unequalled in geographic scope and intensity since the first Arab revolt in the early 20th century, has led (...)
The West has waded neck-high into Libya's civil war, and what happens next is anyone's guess, writes Mohamed Anis Salem*
On the face of it, Gaddafi is finished; he has violated too many of the new rules of democratic change in the Arab region. (...)
If the Egyptian revolution has taught us anything it is that traditional assumptions can be reversed, writes Mohamed Anis Salem*
Everybody has a pet theory. Iranian officials hailed Egypt's January uprising as a step towards an Islamic Middle East. (...)
The remarkable mass uprising in Egypt is a harbinger of a renewed pioneering role for Egypt in the region, if the revolution ends in true democracy, writes Mohamed Anis Salem*
In the past, waves of change across the Arab region reflected various (...)
The management of the demonstrations by the Mubarak regime was a textbook example of how not to behave in a crisis, says Mohamed Anis Salem*
Looking back at the events over the 18 days of protests in Tahrir Square in Cairo, the actions by the (...)
Many are the structural factors that led the Arabs to neglect Sudan. The question now is whether the Arabs have anything to contribute on the issue at all, writes Mohamed Anis Salem*
Some 20 years ago, while working for the United Nations in Sudan, (...)
Egypt's National Democratic Party (NDP) members are submitting applications to party offices throughout the country, declaring their intentions to run in the upcoming People's Assembly elections.
A large number of government officials and ministers (...)
Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif will chair a meeting of the Supreme Nile Water Commission in Alexandria on Thursday to discuss investment opportunities for Egyptian companies in states of the Nile Basin.
The meeting is expected to be attended by 11 (...)
Disputes among Egypt and Nile basin countries are "technical" as opposed to “political,” and there is sufficient Nile water for all Nile basin countries, according to Mohamed Nasr Eddin Allam, Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources.
Allam, (...)
Various experts and cattle breeders believe that butchers are responsible for the recent rise in meat prices. On top of this, Egypt has lost nearly 900,000 cattle due to the import of sick cattle from abroad, said Saad el-Hayany, president of the (...)