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Public service announcement for gear geeks: iSheep we may be, but our first real smartphone love was a BlackBerry (sorry, Nokia Communicator, you don’t make the cut). Enter the BlackBerry KEYone (dumb capitals and all), which was officially unveiled yesterday at MWC in Barcelona by the company that’s licensed the name from the once-iconic Canadian […]
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MENA sovereign issuances set to decline y-o-y
Middle East and North African (MENA) governments are likely to issue less commercial debt this year as budget deficits improve after record issuances last year, Mahmoud Kassem writes for The National, citing an S&P Global Ratings report. The 13 MENA governments covered by S&P are set to issue USD 136 bn in debt, 20% less […]
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Demographics: Time Bomb Or Dividend?
Fitch Group’s BMI Research sees further political instability in the cards for the MENA countries if they do not invest in labor-intensive infrastructure projects or make necessary reforms to employment law — measures it deems necessary to secure employment over the coming 10 years for a large generation of youth now entering the workforce. The […]
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UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson visits the pyramids
UK Ambassador John Casson tweeted a photo of UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's visit to the Pyramids. “UK Foreign Secretary visits Pyramids to boost tourism,” read the Arabic tweet. “UK tourist numbers are the second highest among EU countries, and it plans to become first,” the tweet continued. We would have suggested that adding the […]
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Displacement of Coptic Christians continues to top coverage of Egypt
Topping coverage of Egypt in the foreign press this morning for the second day is the displacement of North Sinai’s Christians, which the Associated Pressand Wall Street Journal note continued for a fourth straight day. The displacement has reached an “unprecedented scale,” they said. Reuters’coverage of a motion by a member of the House of […]
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Are investors still skittish about returning to Egypt?
Despite all the positive press we’ve been getting over the past month, are investors still skittish about returning to Egypt? The AFP tries its very best to make that case, but ultimately can’t deliver. “Egypt’s economic recovery will come with a lag, until the government follows through on reform policies with a successful implementation,” said […]
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Egyptian women’s refugee advocate gets assets frozen in Australia
The NSW Crime Commission has frozen the assets of prominent Egypt-born women's refugee advocate Eman Sharobeem, following an investigation into allegations of “serious crime related activity” and her “unexplained wealth,” according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Sharobeem was chief executive of the Immigrant Women's Health Service for 11 years until 2015.
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Other coverage of Egypt in the international press
Other coverage worth noting in brief this morning: Love from our eastern neighbors: Cairo offers grandeur on an epic scale, from pyramids to traffic jams, writes Seth J. Frantzman for the Jerusalem Post reviewing Cairo’s tourist attractions. “Come here a year from now and you’ll see changes … Security is much better, you feel it […]
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Why is the government building a nuclear power plant when it has cheaper renewable alternatives?
Why build a nuclear power plant in Daba’a when we have cheaper renewable alternativesat our disposal? In a piece penned for Al Masry Al Youm, Seliman Gouda wonders why the government is so determined to roll ahead with a project that appears to have such limited rewards in comparison to the cost. He argues that […]