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A number of hecklers attend Bassem Youssef’s shows and screenings on behalf of Egyptian authorities, Andrew Marantz writes in The New Yorker. “They are conservative Egyptians who live here, but they are hired by the Sisi regime to heckle … It happens at every show,” Youssef’s manager told a theatre house manager who hosting a […]
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Posted inEGYPT IN THE NEWS
Other coverage of Egypt in the international press
Other international coverage worth a skim: Amr Hamzawy writes in Al Jazeera that the clampdown on students in Egypt did not achieve the complete depoliticization of public universities and that their interest in “public affairs and political matters was not quashed.” Arutz Sheva has a report suggesting that the friction between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas […]
Posted inOn Deadline
The lack of media coverage on Sinai shows an inability to disseminate information correctly
The lack of media coverage on the situation in Sinai is only opens the door to misinformation, and serves to isolate the rest of the country from the struggles facing the military and the peninsula’s population, Emad El Din Adib writes in a rare to-the-point column for El Watan.
Posted inEnergy
Middle East needs more creativity in oil and gas exploration
Eni’s success in Egypt and new Iraqi oil discoveries show that “the Middle East and North Africa region does not explore enough, or in the right way,” Robin Mills writes for The National. “The remaining potential, particularly in underexplored regions such as Iran, Iraq and offshore Lebanon and North Africa, is vast,” he says. Mills […]
Posted inEnergy
Elsewedy Electric, Infinity Solar submit bids for solar power plant projects in Kenya
Elsewedy Electric and Infinity Solar submitted bids to build 30 MW and 250 MW solar power plants in Kenya, Khaled Abol El Makarem, head of the committee formed to increase exports to Africa, told Al Mal. The companies will fund the plants with their own investments and will sell electricity to the Kenyan government as […]
Posted inEnergy
EGEMAC wins bid to establish two transformer stations worth EGP 200 mn
The Egyptian German Electrical Manufacturing Company was awarded an EGP 200 mn contract to build two transformer stations in Sadat City for the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company, Chairman Medhat Ramadan told Al Mal. The project will be completed in eight months, Ramadan said.
Posted inInfrastructure
USAID funds Luxor wastewater plant expansion
USAID is funding an expansion of Luxor’s wastewater treatment plant to double the capacity of the system, according to a US Embassy statement. The project is carried out in partnership with the Luxor Potable Water and Sanitation Company, the expansion will provide improved wastewater treatment for Luxor and El Bayadeya to meet projected population growth […]
Posted inInfrastructure
Government working on EGP 1.5 bn development projects in Halayeb and Shalateen
The government is working on implementing development projects in Halayeb and Shalateen worth EGP 1.5 bn, Red Sea governor Ahmed Abdallah said, Al Shorouk reports. The projects include establishing three water desalination plants and three solar power plants. This comes despite continued statements and egging by Sudan that the area falls under its sovereignty.
Posted inBasic Materials + Commodities
Sherif Ismail exempts raw sugar from import tariffs
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail exempted raw sugar imports from tariffs, to be applied retroactively from 1 January until 31 December, Al Mal reports. Ismail had reinstated the levy on imported sugar in January, but reduced the tariffs from 20% to 14%. According to an unnamed source, the government is looking to import 1.2 mn tonnes […]
Posted inBasic Materials + Commodities
Supply Minister reaches agreement to buy rice from private mills
The government has reached an agreement with private rice mills to produce white rice, Reuters reports. The agreement, which could end a standoff over the buying price of rice, has the Supply Ministry paying private mills EGP 6.3 per kg or white rice, which the government would then sell for EGP 6.5 per kg in […]