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MOVES- Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly has appointed Hala El Gohary (LinkedIn) as CEO of the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (Itida), MENA reported. El Gohary has more than 25 years of experience in the field, and has held several leadership and executive positions in IBM.
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Posted inSpeed Round
CORRECTION - In a story we published on Thursday on Orascom Development Egypt’s new project in El Gouna, we misspelled the name of Investor Relations Manager Sara El Gawahergy. We have corrected the story on our website.
Posted inSpeed Round
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Posted inEGYPT IN THE NEWS
Egypt in the news on 28 July 2019
Still driving the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press: Emigration Minister Nabila Makram’s “throat-cutting” snafu. Makram said that people have taken out of context comments she made last week that anyone who speaks badly about Egypt should be “chopped.” Makram was speaking to a crowd of Egyptian expats in Canada when she made the […]
Posted inWorth watching
Story of our evolution is a lot more complicated than we have ever known
The story of human evolution is getting more complicated, the Natural History Museum's Chris Stringer says in a video for the Financial Times (watch, runtime: 2:57). Recent discoveries have now falsified the belief that ancient Neanderthals were wholly replaced by modern humans. In fact, most humans alive today have traces of at least 2% Neanderthal […]
Posted inDiplomacy + Foreign Trade
Ethiopia keen to resume GERD talks with Egypt, Sudan
Ethiopia is keen to resume negotiations with Egypt and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Gedu Andargachew told President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in a meeting in Cairo over the weekend, according to an Ittihadiya statement. Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry called on Sudan and Ethiopia to speed up negotiations […]
Posted inEnergy
Elsewedy to complete power line in Egypt’s Benban solar complex September
Elsewedy Electric will complete in September a 185 km, 500 kV overhead power line to connect Benban 3, a transformer station in Benban’s solar park, to the grid through Naga Hamady in Upper Egypt, sources from the Electricity Ministry told the press. The transmission line, for which Elsewedy signed a EGP 1.7 bn agreement with […]
Posted inEnergy
Jordan temporarily suspends natgas imports from Egypt
Jordan has temporarily stopped importing natural gas from Egypt amid low demand from Jordanian electricity producers, a source from the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) told the press. The kingdom imported 75 mcf/d from Egypt last month, and has been importing variable amounts since we resumed exporting natural gas to Jordan last September under […]
Posted inBasic Materials + Commodities
Fayoum, Beni Suef to experiment with auction mechanism for Egypt’s short staple cotton crops
The government will begin using public auctions on a trial basis in Fayoum and Beni Suef to sell local short staple cotton to bidding companies in the coming harvest season, which begins in September, government sources told the press.The auction mechanism could be standardized starting the 2020-2021 harvest if it proves successful.