{"id":594552,"date":"2019-09-01T03:59:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T03:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/09\/01\/egypt-in-the-news-on-1-september-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-09-01T03:59:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T03:59:41","slug":"egypt-in-the-news-on-1-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/09\/01\/egypt-in-the-news-on-1-september-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt in the News on 1 September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rising sea levels due to climate change are posing an increasing threat to Alexandria and the Nile Delta<\/b>, with at least 5.7 mn people likely to be affected by the end of the century, the Associated Press reports<\/a>. Despite measures taken by the government to safeguard residential areas and the Corniche, severe floods in 2015 and stronger sea waves have threatened building foundations, forcing residents to leave their homes or rebuild them multiple times, and endangering antiquities like the Citadel of Qaitbay and the Kom El Shouqafa catacombs.<\/p>\n

Austerity measures are weighing on Egyptians<\/b> whose standard of living has yet to catch up with the widespread glowing praise<\/a> for our economic reforms, Reuters\u2019 Yousef Saba says<\/a>. Saba points to the spike in Egypt\u2019s poverty rate<\/a> \u2014 particularly as public sector wages have not increased as much as prices \u2014 that accompanied improving macro indicators including lower rates of inflation and unemployment (which fell to 7.5% in 2Q2019<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Also getting attention in the foreign press:<\/p>\n