Egypt's Minister of Housing Assem El-Gazzar said that a new transformer station in Mansoura is being implemented with a total capacity of 500 megavolt ampere (MVA).
That the first stage of the station comes with a capacity of (300 MFA), which is (...)
Egypt's Local Development Minister said on Friday the ministry's Local Development Fund approved in July loans worth 2.6 million Egyptian pounds ($162,638) to finance 297 small and micro-sized projects in 13 governorates.
The main target of the (...)
Proclaim to men the pilgrimage: they will come to thee on foot and on every lean camel, coming from every remote path —Quran, Surat Al-Hajj
This time of the year has a particular spiritual significance in the hearts of millions of Muslims around the (...)
El Ezaby Pharmacies is aiming to expand into a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) country and Africa by 2023, according to the company's Executive Vice President Ahmed El Sadaty.
During a press conference on Monday, El Sadaty said that negotiations are (...)
The central operations room of Ministry of Education said that it detected 16 cases of academic misconduct during the second day of the Thanaweya Amma exams (school leaving exams) on Thursday. The ministry stressed that it would take the required (...)
The Industrial Development Bank (IDB) reported pre-tax profit of about EGP 391m at the end of December 2019, compared to about EGP 379m at the end of December 2018.
The IDB's 2019 profit showed an increase of EGP 12m compared to the previous year, (...)
Aiming for better cotton
EGYPT officially launched an initiative last week aiming to improve the local cotton industry and support farmer livelihoods by adopting more sustainable practices.
The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) is part of the (...)
Since President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi took office in 2014, Egypt's industrial sector has seen considerable improvements, on the back of its prioritisation by the government.
The notable efforts to improve the industrial sector come in recognition of (...)
The number of hotels that are allowed to operate at a reduced capacity increased to 232 in 13 governorates, having adhered to safety regulations outlined by the ministry, tourism ministry said on Friday.
The hotels and resorts are located in South (...)
Egypt's tourism ministry said on Friday that the number of hotels which are allowed to operate at a reduced capacity has increased to 232 in 13 governorates, having adhered to safety regulations outlined by the ministry.
The hotels and resorts are (...)
Egypt has signed three financing agreements totalling €122.7 million ($139.2 million) with the European Investment Bank (EIB), the country's Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat announced on Tuesday.
The agreements were approved by (...)
Since July 2014, the date President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi took office, the state has been in a hurry to complete an array of mega projects that include roads, bridges, tunnels, new cities and even a new canal.
In the housing sector alone Egypt has (...)
The House of Representatives, headed by its Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal, approved on Monday a grant agreement worth $ 1.74m aimed at improving Egypt's investment environment.
The agreement was submitted by the International Bank for Reconstruction and (...)
Banque Misr has arranged a long-term EGP 1.5bn loan to partially finance Damietta Furniture City project's investment cost in cooperation with NI Capital, the financial advisor for the project.
The project aims to establish an integrated city for (...)
Seven new hotels and resorts in the Egyptian coastal resort city of Dahab in South Sinai have received hygiene safety certificates that will allow them to operate amid the coronavirus epidemic, Ahram online reported on Sunday.
These hotels are (...)
Seven new hotels and resorts in the coastal resort city of Dahab in South Sinai have received hygiene safety certificates, which will allow them to operate amid the coronavirus epidemic.
These hotels are Tirana Dahab Resort, Swiss Inn Resort, Dahab (...)
Egypt plans to invest around 5 billion Egyptian pounds ($307.9 million) in New Mansoura City, 128km (79.5 miles) north of Cairo in the Nile Delta, within the 2019/2020 financial year.
The country also seeks to increase New Mansoura City's (...)
Today, all of humanity is suffering the health and economic repercussions of the global Covid-19 pandemic. We are obsessed with infection, discombobulated about changing our routines, and anxious about staying at home indefinitely until someone (...)
The Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday 1,152 new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and 47 new deaths. The latest figures raised the country's total confirmed cases to 27,536, with 1,052 deaths. Up to 6,827 patients recovered.
Egypt has been (...)
Three large medical convoys have been sent to 550,000 of the neediest families in Egypt, according to Mohamed Mokhtar, a spokesman for the Tahya Misr Fund, in a press statement on Saturday.
He said that the fund initially provided aid in four (...)
Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation announced on Wednesday that it has referred 173 illegal constructions and encroachment on waterways in Damietta governorate to the military prosecution for investigation.
According to a statement from the (...)
Egyptian national team midfielder Aly Ghazal has seen his fair share of criticism during his varied career. Ghazal, who also plays with Greek club Athlitiki Enosi Larissa FC, has moved between several European teams. His frequent inclusion on the (...)
Minister of Local Development Mahmoud Shaarawy announced on Saturday that authorities have removed about 3.3 million tonnes of solid waste from Egypt's since the beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in March.
Shaarawy said that Greater (...)
Egypt's small and medium-sized enterprise sector involves 1.7 million businesses, which account for 44.6 percent of the establishments involved in the formal sector, according to Minister of Planning Hala El-Saeed on Friday.
The minister noted that (...)
The third edition of the Cairo Water Week (CWW) will go ahead as planned in October, the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation announced in a statement on Saturday.
The ministry added that there will be no changes due to the coronavirus (...)
