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What we’re tracking this week and beyond
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will reportedly disburse the third and final USD 500 mn tranche of a USD 1.5 bn loan to Egypt “within days.” The 2018 Narrative PR Summit will take place at the Four Seasons Nile Plaza on Sunday, 28 October with participants including friends ranging from the World Bank’s Mahmoud Mohieldin […]
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US exhibition showcases Egypt’s rich history through ancient textiles
Ancient Egyptian textiles on display in New York: An exhibition at New York’s Godwin-Ternbach Museum tells the stories of Egyptians from the 4th to the 7th century through ancient textiles covered in the color purple, which was then worth the same as silver and associated with royalty, The Knight News reports. The exhibit, headlined “From […]
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Egypt in the news on 27 September 2018
It is a truly slow morning for Egypt in the international press — not that we’re complaining. Coverage is limited largely to pickups of wire reports on the discovery of a “massive ancient building” in Mit Rahina believed to have once been part of the nation’s ancient capital. Among the very small handful of headlines […]
Posted inOn Deadline
Imposing media controls is counterintuitive in the age of social media
Trying to control the media is counterintuitive in the age of social media, and trying to restrict the flow of information to a few official channels all but ensures that citizens will resort to social media platforms for what they see as more reliable sources, Ashraf Barbary writes for Al Shorouk. Barbary gently suggests that […]
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Arab women struggle for inheritance justice continues
Omm Ahmed, an Egyptian woman living in the impoverished south, has given up on an inheritance left to her by her father after a yearslong fight with her uncle to claim it. Egypt recently passed a law that imposes jail terms and fines on people like Omm Ahmed’s uncle — but in a conservative society […]
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You might end up with a thinner wallet next year despite growing economies
It’s not just in Egypt: US workers may take home a smaller share of the pie next year. A recent survey shows that companies are allocating smaller relative portions of their budgets to employee compensation as years go by — despite a booming economy — purely out of recession jitters, according to Bloomberg (watch, runtime: […]
Posted inDiplomacy + Foreign Trade
GERD talks fail to reach breakthrough (again)
Surprise, surprise: GERD talks fail to reach breakthrough: Tripartite talks in Addis Ababa between the irrigation ministers of Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) ended yesterday without reaching any “specific outcome,” according to an Irrigation Ministry statement. The meeting, which was also attended by a tripartite scientific committee, was meant […]
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Gov’t receives Dabaa nuclear safety analysis report from Rosatom
Russian nuclear energy company Rosatom has submitted its safety analysis report on the 4.8 GW Dabaa nuclear power plant to the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA), government sources said. Rosatom will begin training programs for workers building the plant before year-end and lay the groundwork for the project by early 2019. The company expects to […]
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Egypt sends Jordan natgas samples three months ahead of supply resumption
Egypt has delivered to Jordan samples of the natural gas it will export by January 2019, Jordan’s Energy Minister Hala Zawati said, according to Petra. Oil Minister Tarek El Molla and El Zawati had signed last month a natural gas sale and purchase agreement under which Egypt will supply 250 mcf/d of gas to Jordan. […]