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As part of the state\u2019s drive to position Egypt as a regional energy hub, we\u2019re also hooking our electricity grid up to those of our neighbors with a view to ultimately allowing the increasingly deregulated industry to buy and sell power regionally. Among the milestones to keep an eye on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alborsanews.com\/2018\/05\/14\/1105144\">Talks with Cyprus and Greece<\/a> on a USD 4 bn interconnection project will kickstart within the coming month when a Cypriot delegation visits<\/li>\n<li>Contracts for an interconnection with Saudi Arabia could be signed by the end of June, <a href=\"https:\/\/alborsanews.com\/2018\/05\/08\/1103786\">sources say<\/a><\/li>\n<li>As many as eight local and global players have been invited to tender a key component of a project to <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2018\/04\/11\/electricity-ministry-holds-talks-to-finance-usd-500-mn-electricity-grid-connection-project-with-sudan\/\">hook our grid<\/a> to Sudan\u2019s. Reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/almalnews.com\/Story\/376036\/59\/8-%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83-%D9%81%D9%89-%D9%85%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%89-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86\">among them<\/a>: ABB, General Electric, Elsewedy, Schneider, Siemens, and State Grid Corporation of China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The IMF should issue its progress report on Egypt\u2019s economic reform program in two weeks\u2019 time, <\/strong>Deputy Chief of Media Relations Alistair Thomson has said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want to sell stuff to the rest of Africa? <\/strong>If hawking more of your wares in Africa is on your list of things to do, pencil in the Afreximbank-backed Intra-African Trade Fair, set to run in Cairo from 11-18 December. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intrafricantradefair.com\">Lots of detail on the conference\u2019s website here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British are celebrating a wedding on Saturday as the actor Meghan Markle marries Prince Harry. 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