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Catalan police shot dead Barcelona attacker Younes Abouyaaqoub, according to the Financial Times.He had been on the run for five days.
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Posted inTHE MACRO PICTURE
Of solar-powered mobile network towers and fintech in Africa
African telecom towers going green: Africa’s booming telecom industry is encouraging the Mauritius-based Greenwish to plonk down USD 800 mn on solar-powered telecommunications towers across the continent, says Bloomberg. The project has the potential to turn a lot of wheels and could spur further economic growth, especially for energy-starved Sub-Saharan African countries, by reducing the […]
Posted inImage of the Day
US loses its collective mind over eclipse
The US lost its collective mind yesterday over the full solar eclipse, but not its sense of humor — as we hope the image above might suggest. We would grumble on about the intersection of American Exceptionalism with the US entertainment industry’s obsession with the End of the World, but forget about us — check […]
Posted inEGYPT IN THE NEWS
Egyptian involvement in Syria negotiations showing results, positive for Israel -Haaretz
Egypt’s “involvement” in negotiations in Syria is already showing results, Zvi Bar’el writes in Haaretz (paywall). Bar’el says Egypt’s negotiations between the rebel militias and the regime have resulted in cease-fire agreements. He adds, “From Israel’s standpoint, Egypt’s involvement is important. Any country engaged in blocking Iran’s influence in Syria serves Israel’s interests. But that’s […]
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El Menawy says Mubarak had a recipe to avoid terror attacks in Europe
Journalist and former state TV supremo Abdellatif El Menawy says if the world had listened to former President Hosni Mubarak’s advice 16 years ago, we could have avoided attacks like the one that hit Barcelona last week. He writes in Arab News that Mubarak had suggested in 2001 bringing the world together for an “international […]
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Other coverage in the international media
Also worth noting today: CNN carried the recently published report that ranks Egypt as the second fastest growing tourist destination in the world. In a piece for the Washington Post, former detainee Aya Hijazi recounts the story of her NGO, Belady, and says she plans on establishing the organization again in the United States to […]
Posted inOn Deadline
Privatization can be a knight in shining armor, not a bogeyman, for public companies in services
The current state of public companies and services has made privatization — or at least private sector investment — a necessity, Osama Ghazali Harb writes for Al Ahram. Harb expresses his (very understandable) confusion over the hysteria that surrounds the notion of privatization, noting that much of the concern is connected to the way privatization […]
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Women were “crowded out” of computer programming and not because of biology
Women were “crowded out” of computer programming — and not because of biology: Back in the early days of computers, it was women rather than men who dominated the field of programming. In fact, it’s widely believed that the first piece of code was written by a Ms. Ada Lovelace in the 19th century, after […]
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A vlogger’s experience of being Korean in Egypt
What’s it like being Korean in Egypt? It involves lots of food, fun, and some racist comments — or at least this was the experience of the K-pop figure and vlogger behind The Daily Oppa. The Korean vlogger managed to survive the number of people shouting “konnichiwa” (Japanese) and “Ni hao” (Chinese) at him, but […]