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Updates on the Daesh terror attack on a bus carrying Coptic Christians in Minya this past Friday top coverage of Egypt in the international press. Saw seven people were killed in the attack. Leading the coverage was an Interior Ministry announcement yesterday that its forces had killed 19 of the alleged perpetrators of Friday’s Minya […]
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Ancient Egypt had knowledge to transport stone blocks before the Pyramids
Have we solved the mystery of how those stones were moved to build the pyramids? Apparently so, as the remains of a stone transport system used in an ancient quarry dating back at least as far back as the reign of Khufu was discovered. According to LiveScience, the discovery also suggests that Ancient Egyptians likely […]
Posted inOn Deadline
Overcrowded classrooms hinder educational reform
Egypt’s educational reforms will never be completely effective if classrooms continue to be overcrowded, Abbas El Tarabily writes for Al Masry Al Youm. El Tarabily argues that Egypt needs to ramp up its construction of schools to accommodate the number of school-age children, while simultaneously conceding that this project would represent a huge financial burden […]
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Egypt wants everything top notch in new capital city
** #6 We aren’t the only developing country that’s building itself a new city: Overpopulation and poor infrastructure mean it’s easier and less costly for developing countries to just build new cities from scratch. And so they do, writes Bloomberg Businessweek’s Monte Reel. “My vision is to let Cairo breathe,” said Ashraf Abdel Mohsen, who […]
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Restoring Egypt’s Lake Nasser
** #7 Bringing back fishing at Aswan’s Lake Nasser: Fisheries in Lake Nasser in Aswan have seen their yields drop significantly over the past few years due to bad practices and lack of regulation, according to WorldFish (watch, runtime: 7:42). Lake Nasser, the second largest in Africa, used to record annual production levels of c. […]
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Madbouly meets with Chinese companies in Shanghai, attends China’s CIIE
Madbouly meets in Shanghai with companies taking part in national infrastructure projects: Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly held talks yesterday with senior executives from Shanghai Electric and Dong Fang, the two Chinese energy companies building the USD 4.4 bn, 6 GW Hamrawein “clean coal” power plant, according to a Cabinet statement. The companies, , are conducting […]
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Tripartite meetings of experts on GERD held in Addis Ababa today
All the foot-dragging over GERD is officially going to start costing money: Technical experts from Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia are gathering in Addis Ababa today to discuss contractual issues related to the French consultancy firm hired to conduct environmental impact studies on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), according to state-run Al Ahram. An unnamed […]
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Most Egyptians support the “stable” peace agreement with Israel
Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel is “stable and permanent” and supported by most Egyptians, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said yesterday at the World Youth Forum, according to the Times of Israel. El Sisi’s remarks come as the new Egyptian ambassador to Israel, Khaled Azmi, arrived in Tel Aviv yesterday. Separately, Egypt’s efforts to broker […]
Posted inInfrastructure
SCA’s port fee reduction decision now includes port of West Port Said
The Suez Canal Authority’s (SCA) decision to reduce transit and mooring fees at the East Port Said port last month has also been applied to the port of West Port Said, Al Mal reports. The SCA had dropped fees in a bid to draw more shipping activity to the ports, after Ocean Alliance — which […]
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3 companies qualify in tender to redevelop Downtown Cairo’s Shepheard Hotel
Three unnamed companies qualified in the tender to acquire a 51% stake in a joint venture with state-owned Egyptian General Company for Tourism and Hotels (EGOTH) to redevelop Downtown Cairo’s storied Shepheard Hotel, EGOTH head Mervat Hataba said, according to Youm7.