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Making nice with Ethiopia: Egypt congratulated former Ethiopian health minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on his election as director-general of the World Health Organization, Ahram Online. Adhanom is the first African to head the WHO.
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Posted inDiplomacy + Foreign Trade
Pope Tawadros meets Putin in Moscow
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow yesterday, Al Shorouk reports.
Posted inEnergy
Libya Oil Egypt petroleum products sales pass EGP 2.1 bn in 2016
Libya Oil Egypt sold EGP 2.1 bn worth of petroleum products in 2016, general manager Mesbah El Shiaty says, according to Al Masry Al Youm. The total volume of the products sold during the year was 925,000 cubic metres, 10% above the year’s target, he added. El Shiaty also says the company is set to […]
Posted inEnergy
Government postpones issuing waste-to-energy feed-in tariff to October
The government has decided to postpone issuing the new waste-to-energy feed-in tariff (FiT) to October due to a surplus of electricity in the national grid, while consumption levels have not increased in tandem, unnamed government sources tell Al Borsa. The government had set in March a base FiT rate for waste-to-energy projects at EGP 1.21 […]
Posted inInfrastructure
Gov’t to tender for New Capital infrastructure projects within two months
The Housing and CIT Ministries are launching a number of tenders for the development of the New Administrative Capital’s infrastructure works within two months, sources tell Al Borsa. The tenders will include the supply of copper conductors and fiber optic cables, as well as communications systems.
Posted inBasic Materials + Commodities
Loesche to provide military’s cement plant with 18 vertical roller mills
The Defense Ministry’s six line cement plant being built at Beni Suef contracted Germany’s Loesche to supply 18 new vertical roller mills, Global Cement reports. China’s Sinoma CDI is building the plant, each of whose lines will have a capacity of 12.6 mn tonnes a year. Global Cement says “it is anticipated that the mills […]
Posted inHealth + Education
Tatweer Misr to establish international university
Tatweer Misr is planning to construct an international university over a 100-feddan stretch of land under a PPP framework, and will set up an investment fund to finance the project, chairman Ahmed Shalaby said, Al Borsa reports. According to Shalaby, Tatweer Misr will submit a request for land allocation to the Housing Ministry next week […]
Posted inHealth + Education
Advocacy group says gov’t is restricting academic freedom
Academics face a number of restrictions, according to the Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression’s 1Q2017 report, Mohamed Abdel Salam writes for Al-Fanar Media. Academic freedom is being limited with measures including travels bans and requiring official approval to travel abroad for faculty members.
Posted inReal Estate + Housing
Orascom Development to start building residential project in Gouna in 2H2017
Orascom Development Holding (ODH) will break ground on a residential project in Gouna in 2H2017, set to be completed by year-end, investor relations director Sara El Gawahergy tells Al Mal. The company is targeting USD 25 mn in sales from the project. Also in the pipeline is an EGP 60.5 mn real estate project in […]
Posted inTourism
Gov’t to issue CairoPass for admission to Cairo’s tourist attractions
The Supreme Antiquities Council will begin issuing in October a USD 100 CairoPass card to admit tourists to various museums and attractions in the Greater Cairo area for five days, Al Borsa reports.