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LEGISLATION WATCH- Will local elections take place before the year is out? The Local Administration Act will see the light “soon” and municipal elections will be held before the end of the year, House Speaker Ali Abdel Aal said yesterday, Al Masry Al Youm reports. The law, which aims to decentralize local councils and organize […]
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AT Lease reports 1Q2018 results
EARNINGS WATCH- Al Tawfeek Leasing (AT Lease) posted a net profit after tax of EGP 16.3 mn in 1Q2018, up from EGP 15.6 mn during the same period last year.
Posted inSpeed Round
Smart people wanted
*** SMART PEOPLE WANTED. We’re hiring at both Enterprise and at our parent company, Inktank. We’re looking for critical thinkers who have outstanding English-language writing skills. Don’t apply if you are not (at an absolute minimum) unafraid of numbers. We offer a great, casual work environment, the opportunity to work with smart people who care […]
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Posted inTHE MACRO PICTURE
How the AIIB is emerging as a genuine rival to the World Bank
How the AIIB is emerging as a genuine rival to the World Bank: By expanding into Africa and Latin America and away from Asia, the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is emerging as a very real rival to the World Bank, writes James Kynge for the Financial Times. The AIIB signed a memorandum of […]
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Nothing to report
When the there’s nothing to say on Egypt, the formula for the foreign press is to fall back on human rights. This includes widespread pickups of Amnesty International allegations on solitary confinement.
Posted inOn Deadline
Water conservation lessons from South Africa’s “Day Zero”
South Africa’s “Day Zero” could teach us about water conservation, Ahmed El Berri writes for Ahram Gate. He lists the measures taken in Cape Town to deal with the drought that hit the country’s agricultural production and economic growth two years ago. The lessons we could learn, he says, include innovative irrigation techniques, fixing leakages, […]
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How King Tut's tomb almost went unnoticed
A series of random events in the early 20th century almost prevented Howard Carter’s famous discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb from happening, according to National Geographic. In 1904, Carter was forced to resign from his top archeology position in Egypt’s Department of Antiquities following a complaint by drunken tourists at Saqqara, and he ended up […]
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Straight from nopeland: a nasty bathroom guest
What would you do if you really needed a bathroom and walked in to find a 70 kg lizard? A question no one but the cast of Jurassic Park would ever like to answer. However, the crew of BBC’s Planet Earth II found out the hard way. Lying on the cool, tiled floor of the […]
Posted inDiplomacy + Foreign Trade
Egypt to disclose CCTV footage of Regeni to visiting Italian prosecutors
Egypt to disclose CCTV footage of Regeni to visiting Italian prosecutors: Italian prosecutors have agreed to send a team of technical experts led by Deputy Prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco to Cairo to review of CCTV footageretrieved from the metro station where Italian PhD student Giulio Regeni disappeared in January 2016, Al Shorouk reports. The team, which […]