The National Bank of Egypt's (NBE) microfinance and electronic payment arm, Al Ahly Tamkeen, has started to provide its services at certain branches in Upper Egypt.
Dalia Al-Baz, Vice-Chairperson NBE and Chairperson of Tamkeen, said the company aims (...)
Egypt's Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) and the global BPO provider, Webhelp, have signed a three year agreement to pump EGP 200m into the country's outsourcing industry.
The financing will go towards expanding the scope (...)
Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat has met with graduates of the "Our Future is Digital" initiative, to review the initiative's impact on their career paths.
The meeting, which took place at the ministry's (...)
Egypt's dilapidated railway network has once again been making headlines after last Friday's tragic train collision in the Upper Egyptian Sohag governorate that led to the deaths of 18 people and the injury of 200 more.
Eleven different officials (...)
A new mega land-reclamation project dubbed the New Delta received a boost this week during a meeting between President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli, and Minister of Agriculture and Land reclamation Al-Sayed Qoseir.
The (...)
Egypt's Public Prosecutor ordered, on Monday, the arrest of eight employees, involved in the train collision in Sohag governorate, including the trains' drivers.
The arrestees also include the drivers' assistants and the El-Maraghah railway station (...)
Egypt's Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea has revealed that small industries complexes in Aswan and Assiut governorates will be presented to investors in the coming period.
This will take place once the construction and finishing works at (...)
Alaa Farouk, Chairperson of the Agricultural Bank of Egypt (ABE), has announced that the bank's Bab Rizk programme for microfinance will be available in 150 of the bank's new branches.
These will be added to the 26 branches where the programme has (...)
Egypt's Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem has inaugurated the Confrontation and Roaming Theatre's shows in Qena Governorate, as part of the Ministry's plan to extend the theatre's shows in 14 governorates.
Abdel Dayem said that the theatre aims (...)
More than 400,000 people have registered on the Ministry of Health's Covid-19 vaccination website. Since the vaccination campaign began on 4 March 1,141 people have received their first dose, according to the latest Ministry of Health figures.
"The (...)
Mohamed Shoeir, Al-Bedayat wal Nehayat: Aawam Naguib Mahfouz (The Beginnings and the Endings: Years of Naguib Mahfouz), Al-Shorouk Publishing House, 2021, pp215
Al-Bedayat wal Nehayat
This is another biographical non-fiction book by the journalist (...)
Churches in Upper Egypt's Qena have been shut down temporarily, with a ban imposed on masses after a surge in coronavirus infections, Anba Cheroubim, the Bishop of Qena, announced on Sunday.
The closure came due to a "rise in infections in the past (...)
Egypt's Finance Minister Mohamed Maait said on Saturday that the new draft budget for fiscal year 2021/2022 will be sent to President Abdel-Fatah El-Sisi next week to review ahead of sending it to the parliament.
Maait said that the new budget (...)
Egypt on Thursday began its Covid-19 vaccination programme for the elderly and those with chronic illnesses who registered with the Ministry of Health's designated website.
The number of people getting the vaccination on the first day was 1,141, (...)
New City Housing and Development, owned by businessperson Raouf Ghabbour, has launched the 120 feddan first phase of its ECO West project in 6th of October city.
The company injected approximately EGP 2.5bn investments in the 3,800 unit project, (...)
The UK is joining the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Egypt's ‘Kemama' (mask) campaign, in partnership with the Alternative Finance Lab and Neya, on 7 March.
The ‘Kemama' campaign is part of the UNDP regional "Solidarity Against (...)
The UK has joined the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Egypt's "Kemama" campaign, in partnership with the Alternative Finance Lab (AltFinLab) and Neya.
The campaign supports women in Upper Egypt working for the El Nidaa Foundation, which aims to (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Planning and Economic Development has said that the country's sustainable development plan for fiscal year (FY) 2020/21 has attached great importance to the development of Upper Egypt.
This comes with the aim of ensuring real, (...)
Public investments directed to Upper Egypt during FY2018/2019 through FY2020 / 2021 amounted to EGP 104 billion, with a growth rate of about 27 percent, compared to the three previous years, Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala El-Said (...)
Amwal Al Ghad on demonstrates the cement prices in Egypt as of Thursday, February 25, 2021.
The table below shows the prices of cement in Egyptian pound, according to a number of key cement companies in the country.
Company name Prices per (...)
Egypt's cement market is expected to see some production lines at factories close down for a number of reasons.
These closures will be partially due to their outdated equipment and high production costs, as well as to the intensity of market (...)
Egypt's Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed announced, on Wednesday, that it will launch five reproductive health convoys aimed at women, on 2-9 March.
The convoys, which will take place under the theme "Your Right to Organise", aim to (...)
on demonstrates the cement prices in Egypt as of Tuesday, February 23, 2021.
The table below shows the prices of cement in Egyptian pound, according to a number of key cement companies in the country.
Company name Prices per tonne
Lafarge (...)
In his policy statement before Egypt's new parliament on 31 January, Minister of Transport Kamel Al-Wazir said that it had been planned to implement 2,173 projects at a total cost of LE1,522 billion from 2014 to 2024 in the sectors for which the (...)
Randa Hamza, Assistant Minister of International Cooperation for Planning and Monitoring, has revealed that the total portfolio of development funds received during fiscal year (FY) 2019/20 amounted to the equivalent of $25bn.
Hamza added that of (...)
