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Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi left yesterday for Hungary for an official visit, the MOD said in a statement.
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Egypt’s squash champion Youssef Ibrahim wins Squash Open D’Italia
Egyptian squash champion Youssef Ibrahim won his first Professional Squash Association title, beating out France’s Baptiste Masotti for the 2017 Squash Open D’Italia, Daily News Egypt reports.
Posted inON YOUR WAY OUT
Egyptian entrepreneur says he created the Tinder for business
An Egyptian entrepreneur says he built the “Tinder for business” to get “people to meet for business reasons and connecting,” Wamda reports, covering the startup Geomingle. Its founder, Mostafa Hashem, says Geomingle is “cross between dating app Tinder and business networking site LinkedIn. ‘Different cities employ the app for different reasons. For example, Dubai and […]
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CAPMAS’ annual census provides five options for religion
State statistics agency CAPMAS has expanded the religion category in its census and is giving Egyptians five options to choose from: Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Other, and N/A, Youm7 reports. Here’s to when progress finally does arrive and we can see Jedi added on there (we jest).
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MP Agina still doesn’t understand the uproar his FGM statements caused
Waste of oxygen — and surprisingly still an MP Elhamy Agina — is still confused as to why his statements that women should be subjected to female [redacted] mutilation to compensate for widespread performance dysfunction by men caused such an uproar, telling Al Shorouk that he used the always-reliable interwebs for his facts.
Posted inTHE MARKETS YESTERDAY
BY THE NUMBERS
EGP / USD CBE market average: Buy 15.7374 | Sell 15.8379 EGP / USD at CIB: Buy 15.75 | Sell 15.85 EGP / USD at NBE: Buy 15.73 | Sell 15.78 EGX30 (Monday): 12,444 (-0.8%) Turnover: EGP 1.3 bn (192% above the 90-day average) EGX 30 year-to-date: +0.8% THE MARKET ON MONDAY: The EGX30 ended […]
Posted inCALENDAR
20-21 February (Monday-Tuesday): Fulbright Student Alumni Regional Conference: Contemporary Health Issues, Conrad Hotel, Cairo. 20-22 February (Monday-Wednesday): 20th International Conference on Petroleum Mineral Resources and Development, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Cairo. 23 February (Thursday): Potential date for resumption of flights between Egypt and Russia, according to Izvestia newspaper. 06-08 March (Monday-Wednesday): 13th EFG Hermes One […]
Posted inWhat We're Tracking Today
What we’re tracking on 20 February 2017
We’re below EGP 16 to the greenback: The EGP has strengthened to a three-month high with the central bank reporting that banks were buying greenbacks at an average rate of EGP 15.7576 per USD 1 yesterday. Bankers told Reuters the strengthening of the EGP owes in large part of a drop in demand for the […]
Posted inON THE HORIZON
On the horizon
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is heading to Washington on 25 February. It will be his first official visit to DC under the Trump administration, and Shoukry is expected to meet US Foreign Secretary Rex Tillerson for talks on terrorism, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. We also expect the two to lay the groundwork […]