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Value8 asks Dutch courts to freeze Orascom Construction’s proposed merger with Dutch-listed OCI Global
Good morning, everyone. Today’s issue has two stories from Egypt’s consumer economy — one about the brands worth keeping here,…
Egypt expands refining to cut the fuel-import bill, and courts private capital for new diesel plants
Lifting utilization and adding fuel-oil-to-diesel units is the plan, and EGPC is looking for foreign investors for the flagship complexes
Five years into RISE, safety metric frozen as World Bank ratchets up fiduciary risk on Egypt’s railway loan
Fiduciary risk on the World Bank’s c. USD 421 mn RISE loan has been raised to “high” — the only…
Egypt is fixing how deals get executed, but what pushes investors offshore runs deeper than the reforms on the table
Investment Ministry and a Senate committee are both moving to unclog corporate transactions, but lawyers and former regulators say even…
Cairo’s vanishing trees in the spotlight
Tree cutting seemingly runs counter to the 100 mn Tree Initiative launched by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in 2022
A one-point jump in Egypt’s medical school cutoff just cut acceptances by 10%
This is what Doctors’ Syndicate asked for to address overcrowding
US regulators have proposed cutting Banque Misr’s UAE branch from correspondent banking access
Good morning, friends. Egypt is on the global stage this morning. Let’s start with the less-welcome news: The US Treasury…
Eni plans 230 new wells in Egypt over 2026-2027 as country races to slow gas decline
PLUS: Industry Ministry studies Qima scores to reward deeper localization
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