Egypt's Minister of Planning Hala El-Saeed has allocated a sum of 7 billion Egyptian pounds part of the 2019/2020 state budget to upgrade the most needy villages.
A programme targeting the neediest villages' development gaps during 2019/2020 fiscal (...)
Egypt's state-owned construction firm Rolin has won a mandate to execute three infrastructure flagships in Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena, its managing director said on Thursday.
With investments exceeding 120 million Egyptian pounds ($7.4 (...)
A MOBILE application that allows users to report unremoved garbage is now available, writes Mahmoud Bakr.
A system that allows the public to alert the authorities via their mobiles to come and collect rubbish is being rolled out in Cairo.
The first (...)
On the west bank of the Nile in Nag Hammadi in the Qena governorate of Upper Egypt, the palace of prince Youssef Kamal stands waiting for visitors.
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The edifice, re-opened on Sunday by Minister of Planning and Administrative Reform Hala Al-Said, (...)
ON TOP of a small hill on the west side of Nag Hammadi near Qena in Upper Egypt stands the Saint Bidaba Monastery welcoming worshippers and visitors after five years of restoration, reports Nevine El-Aref.
The restoration work was carried out at the (...)
Halan, an Egyptian technology start-up that uses two- and three-wheeled vehicles to transport passengers and goods, will begin operating in Ethiopia before the end of 2019, its chief executive told Reuters.
Halan, an Egyptian technology start–up
The (...)
Careem, the region's leading app-based car booking service, is planning to launch its services in both Marsa Matruh and Qena as part of the company's plan to expand and meet the customers' needs.
The company is planning to enhance its presence in (...)
Ministry of Supply & Internal Trading has laid the foundation stone of the first commercial and logistics zone in Qena with total investments of 2 billion Egyptian pounds ($120 million).
The early phase of the zone is developed by United Company for (...)
The Supply Ministry's Internal Trade Development Authority (ITDA) intends to launch the yet-established wholesale markets management company for an initial public offering, according to ITDA Chairman Ibrahim Ashmawy.
The company expected to be (...)
Egypt approved to allocate 15,000 feddans to set up a new city in Bani Mazar, located in Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya.
These remarks were made during a meeting f the Higher Council for Planning chaired by Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa (...)
Egypt has issued a presidential decree to build a new city by northwest of Cairo, an official source in the country's Housing Ministry's arm NUCA said on Tuesday.
The new city will be at the Wadi El Natrun-New Alamein road, to be one of Egypt's (...)
El Sewedy Electric will complete the implementation of a 500kV power line with a length of 185 km in September.
Sources in the Ministry of Electricity told Daily News Egypt that El Sewedy Electric is executing the line to connect Benban 3 to Naga (...)
Tamweely Microfinance started implementing its expansion plans by activating a cooperation protocol with the National Postal Authority (NPA), in connection with launching company branches in the headquarters of NPA offices in several governorates of (...)
About 32.5% of the Egyptians are living below the poverty line in 2017/18, compared to 27.8% in 2015, according to the expenditure and income research prepared by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), Khairat Barakat, (...)
Banque Misr allocated EGP 13bn to finance micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) during the fiscal year (FY) 2018/19, bringing its portfolio to EGP 24bn at the end of June 2019, up from EGP 11bn in June 2018, a 118% increase.
About 121,000 (...)
Visa made the dreams of 7 Egyptian children come true when they led some of the world's best football players onto the pitch at Al-Salam Stadium in Cairo during the 2019 Total Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final match between Tunisia and Madagascar (...)
The British charity Muntada Aid launched a new initiative in Qena governorate. A 10-member volunteer medical team led by a British surgeon arrived in Egypt to conduct surgeries for 70-80 underprivileged children and to train 100 Egyptian doctors in (...)
Environ Adapt, a leading waste management and resource recovery company, has signed a protocol with Egypt's Ministry of Environment making Dawar, the company's mobile application, the official waste monitoring and management system for the (...)
Egypt's new comprehensive healthcare insurance system guarantees offering high-quality medical services to all segments of the society without any discrimination, the Health Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
The new system gives beneficiaries (...)
Egypt's construction firm Al-Abd plans to complete delivering two infrastructure projects in Upper Egyptian city of Qena before the end of the year, its managing director said on Thursday.
The cost of the two projects is pegged at more than 300 (...)
Chairperson of the board of directors and Managing Director of the Industrial Development Bank (IDB) Maged Fahmy, inaugurated the latest branches of the bank at Noubar Street in downtown Cairo.
The bank will complete its expansion plan and (...)
Egypt's parliament will take a final vote on the country's new budget and development plan (financial year 2019/2020) on Monday.
The budget and plan are expected to be approved by most MPs though some sharply criticised the ministries of finance and (...)
The micro, small, and medium enterprises development agency (MSMEDA) funded 3,836 projects in Qena governorate in five months, at a cost of EGP 89.212m.
Qena Governor, Abdul Hamid Al-Hagan, said that this funding comes within the framework of the (...)
Egyptian Industrial Development Authority (IDA) plans to launch two industrial complexes in Red Sea governorate and Alexandria's Margham 2 area within next July, according to sources.
The works come as part of the IDA's scheme to establish around 13 (...)
Injaz Egypt, a non-profit organisation, and the world's largest tobacco firm Philip Morris first initiative, ‘San3ety Ganoub El Wadi' (My craftsmanship Upper Egypt) managed to complete the training 1,122 young men and women from the governorates of (...)
