Minister of Local Development Manal Awad met with a delegation from the World Bank, including Ellen Olafsen, Senior Specialist in Private Sector Engagement, and Zeeshan Kareem, Senior Urban Specialist, alongside other bank representatives. Also (...)
Egypt and the World Bank reviewed progress on key transport and industrial infrastructure projects, including the Cairo-Alexandria Trade Logistics Development Project (CATLDP) and upgrades in Upper Egypt's industrial zones.
The discussions took (...)
Minister of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Communities, Sherif El-Sherbiny, reviewed the achievements of the Central Agency for Reconstruction in 2024, an entity affiliated with the ministry. The agency has successfully completed 37 diverse projects, (...)
Kamel Al-Wazir, the Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development and Minister of Industry and Transport, visited on Sunday the headquarters of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA), where he met with Governor of Sohag, Abdel-Fattah (...)
Egypt's Minister of Health and Population, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Sunday visited Juhayna Central Hospital in Sohag, which is ready to start operating on a trial basis in January 2023. He was accompanied by Tarek El-Feki, the Governor of Sohag.
The (...)
Egypt's industrial sector has achieved significant progress from July 2014 to June 2023. The most noteworthy industrial achievement is the establishment of 17 industrial complexes in 15 governorates, which comprise a total of 5,046 industrial (...)
The Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Agency (MSMEDA) signed a contract worth EGP 100m with the Regional Association to Develop Enterprise (RADE) in Sohag to support and develop micro enterprises within the scope of the Decent Life (...)
THE CHAIRMAN of the Egyptian state's National Railways Authority Ashraf Raslan as well as a number of the authroity's top management were dismissed from their positions on Tuesday on the back of Sunday's train accident that took the lives of 11 (...)
Egypt's Public Prosecution announced, on Sunday, the results of the investigations into the train collision that occurred in Sohag on 26 March, and left 20 people dead and 199 injured.
The investigations revealed that the Sohag-Alexandria Train No. (...)
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 (...)
In a stormy plenary meeting on Sunday, MPs said the deadly train crash near Tahta city in the governorate of Sohag on 26 March that killed 19 people should ring alarm bells about Egypt's railway system.
MPs agreed that the crash, which also left 185 (...)
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 Health and Population Hala Zayed has revealed the official casualties count in the Sohag train collision stood at 19 dead and 185 injured.
Zayed's remarks came during an Egyptian Cabinet press conference on Saturday, headed by (...)
At least 32 people were killed and 66 injured as two trains collided in the Tahta district in Sohag governorate, Upper Egypt on Friday, the health ministry said.
According to the ministry, 36 ambulance vehicles have been dispatched to the scene to (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday cabled President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to express his sincerest condolences and solace over the deaths inflicted in Friday's train accident in Sohag, WAFA reported.
Abbas offered condolences to the (...)
In rural areas in Egypt, some farmers still misuse or overuse pesticides on agricultural land, in some cases even using old pesticide containers at home to store food and water.
In order to help farmers to handle pesticides safely, the United (...)
Syndicate polls
THE DEADLINE to register for those seeking to run in the Press Syndicate poll, due to be staged on 1 March, is Thursday 14 February. Former syndicate chairman Diaa Rashwan has announced his intention to run for the chair. Together (...)
The Criminal Court has sentenced three police officers to three years in prison for being accused of beating a prisoner to death inside a police station.
The case dates back to 2016 when the defendants were referred to the Criminal Court over (...)
Minister of Investment and International Cooperation Sahar Nasr signed a protocol of cooperation with Ali Gomaa, chairperson of the board of trustees of Misr El Kheir Foundation, worth EGP17.6m, to develop the village of Sheikh Zein El-Din in Tahta, (...)
The Chinese Company, State Grid, is set to complete the constructions of electric lines and cables extending along 800 kms next month.
According to sources with the Ministry of Electricity, the lines and electric cables implemented by the Chinese (...)
Five people were killed on Monday while illegally digging for ancient Pharaonic antiquities in Upper Egypt's Sohag governorate, state-run news agency MENA reported on Tuesday.
The deaths occured in two separate incidents involving excavations (...)
Qena, Aswan, the New Valley, Minya and Luxor were just some of the Upper Egyptian governorates where major development projects were inaugurated by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi this week.
The projects included the infrastructure for reclaiming (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated several projects in the governorate of Qena and urged the government to provide information in an easier fashion so that the common citizen could understand.
The president asked Minister of Transportation (...)
Minister of Industry and Trade Tarek Kabil will be carrying out field visits to the governorates of Sohag and Assiut. During the visits, he will be inaugurating four new investment projects. He will also inspect two projects west of Gerga, Tahta, (...)
The managing director of Ayadi for Industrial Development, Moataz Baha El-Din, told Daily News Egypt in an interview about the future plans of the company and its new projects during 2017. Investing EGP 750m to develop 307 feddans in El-Qantara is (...)
