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** #6 Home appliance producer Whirlpool Corporation and local partner MTI Holding will assemble and market in Egypt Whirlpool-branded top-loading washing machines starting 1H2019.
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Ethydco, SIDPEC and ECHEM acquire 100% stake of CCI for USD 15 mn
M&A WATCH- Three state-owned companies close USD 15 mn buyout of CCI: State-owned companies Egyptian Ethylene and Derivatives Company (Ethydco), Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals Company (SIDPEC) and the Egyptian Petrochemical Holding Company (ECHEM) have closed a USD 15 mn acquisition of Solvay Alexandria Sodium Carbonate (CCI), government sources told local media. Ethydco acquired 60% of CCI […]
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Enterprise is hiring
** WE’RE HIRING: We’re looking for smart, talented, and seasoned journalists and editors to join our team at Enterprise, which produces the newsletter you’re reading right now. We’re looking for people who can work on this product and help us launch exciting new stuff. Applicants should have serious English-language writing chops, a strong interest — […]
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What we’re tracking this week and beyond
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is due in Khartoum on Thursday, 25 October to meet with Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir. The 2018 Narrative PR Summit will take place at the Four Seasons Nile Plaza on Sunday, 28 October. The T-20 ‘Invest in Healthcare Conference 2018’ will take place on Thursday, 15 November at the […]
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Egyptian Navy celebrates 51st anniversary of sinking Eilat
Egypt celebrated Navy Day by observing the 51st anniversary of the sinking the Israeli destroyer Eilat, according to Egypt Today. Eilat was sunk by three Egyptian missile boats off Port Said waters on 21 October 1967. The sinking, thought to be the first vessel sunk by a missile boat during wartime, prompted global interest in […]
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Independent judiciary needed for Egypt’s democratic transition
An independent judiciary is necessary for Egypt’s democratic transition and to protect human rights, Bruce Rutherford writes for Foreign Affairs. Rutherford argues that strengthening legal institutions and restoring their reputation would help curb the power of the presidency and protect the rights of citizens. “Weak legal institutions allow for rampant corruption and police brutality,” he […]
Posted inOn Deadline
Egypt needs to reconcile with civil society
Egypt needs to reconcile with civil society, Ziad Bahaa El Din writes in his latest column for Al Shorouk. An accumulation of misunderstandings over the years have given non-profit organizations and NGOs a bad reputation in Egypt and led them to underperform where they could excel, according to Bahaa El Din. He argues that effort […]
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Want to wipe out social injustice? Only total war, revolution, a pandemic or state collapse will do the trick, one historian argues
** #8 Social justice demands that mns die or be dislocated: Only four things can force equality or “large-scale levelling”: epidemics and pandemics, complete collapse of whole states and economic systems, total revolutions, and wars of mass mobilisation. Or so Walter Scheidel argues in his book “The Great Leveller: Violence and the History of Inequality […]
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From guided missiles to guided ubers, the history of GPS
From guided missiles to guided Ubers, this is the history of GPS: GPS was first invented to help the US catch up with the Soviets in the Cold War space race after the latter launched Sputnik 1, the first man-made object put in space, in 1957. US military scientists discovered that Sputnik’s frequency varied as […]