Egypt ready to strike anywhere to neutralise national security threats: High-ranking official
President Al-Sisi stresses that Egypt will not tolerate any terrorist groups or their supporters
Mohamed Samir
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Mohamed Samir is an economic and political journalist, and analyst specialising in the Middle East. Over the past decade, he covered Egypt’s and the MENA region’s financial, business, and geopolitical updates. He is currently the Deputy Executive Editor of the Daily News Egypt.
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Tawakkol Karman: Facebook lets the Islamist fox guard the henhouse
The appointment shatters Facebook’s impartiality as Karman will have direct editorial influence on what the social media platform publishes
EGX rebounds 2.54% as Egypt eases coronavirus restrictions
Gulf stocks gain, Saudi Arabia’s benchmark index closes at 2.4%, Dubai 1.9%
Egypt faces two economic scenarios due to COVID-19 impact: Hala El-Said
Government investments increase to EGP 595bn to compensate for slowing of private investment
Parliament’s planning and budgeting committee approves Income Tax Law draft amendments
Draft law to see a raise in base personal tax exemption level and introduce revised tax brackets
Egypt… Gift of the Nile: Threatened by Ethiopia’s GERD
Egyptians Right to the Water of Nile petition launched by Egyptian American Council calls on Ethiopia not to undertake unilateral measures concerning GERD
Stock market bloodbath continues
EGX drops 1.76%, Dow and S&P 500 both decline 3.4%, France’s CAC 40 4.4%, UK’s FTSE 100 fell 3.8%
Spain reports record virus deaths, a 12-year girl dies in Belgium
NY demand medical staff reinforcements as state’s death toll surpassed 1,200
Lagging COVID-19 response to shield frail economy: Rouhani
In the past 24 hours Iran reported 123 deaths and 2,901 COVID-19 infections, bringing the total infections to 38,309, and death toll to 2,640
US reports first coronavirus-related death of an infant
Coronavirus cases soared in the US recording 122,246 infections, Italy death toll surpassed 10,000
Al-Sisi calls Conte, stresses Egypt’s solidarity with Italy against coronavirus outbreak
Italy mulls imposing tighter restriction, announces billions in financial relief
Global meltdown: stocks, crude oil futures in free fall on rising COVID-19 cases, OPEC price war
The stock markets bloodbath triggered the first-ever forced trading halt in the US and similar measures in Egypt, Europe, Asia, and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
EBI trains 53,000 beneficiaries 2H 2019, targets 10% growth in 2020: Abdel Aziz Nossier
Egyptian Banking Institute to sponsor fintech incubator in Egyptian university within next months
CIB aims to raise EGP 15bn to finance expansion
CIB’s consolidated net income grows by 23% to EGP 11.8bn in 2019, proposes EGP 1.25 dividends per share
EgyptAir suspends flights to China starting 1 February as coronavirus spreads
Virus death toll in China rise to 170, first coronavirus case confirmed in India
Deal of Century: 2-state solution, remarking borders, and disarming Palestine
Palestinian politicians call for ditching Oslo Accords, establishing Palestinian state
Political and social risks to curb reforms, fiscal consolidation in Levant and North Africa: Moody’s
Weak global growth to curb benefits of reforms in Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, and Jordan
Hala El-Said: Frontierswoman of Egypt Vision 2030
The frontline politician is now responsible for planning, economic development portfolios, along with being chairperson of Egypt’s SWF
US-China phase-one trade deal reached, increasing Chinese exports from US
American farmers to be main beneficiaries, phase-two will be after the 2020 US presidential election
Libya’s diplomatic mission in Egypt disowns Al-Sarraj
The mission decides to serve as representatives for Libyan House of Representatives and LAAF
Egypt sets five requirements for citizenship by investment
Moreover, the cabinet approved the establishment of a special unit to look into citizenship by investment applications.
Egypt, 48 African counties adopt Abidjan Declaration to improve continent’s working conditions
ILO report indicates that one child out of five are working in Africa
Three state-owned companies are ready for EGX stake offering
Egypt will offer 22% to 25% of the shares in HHD in 1Q 2020, says Hesham Tawfik
AUC will be the main partner and host of RiseUp Summit
For the first time, The American University in Cairo (AUC) will be the main partner and host of RiseUp Summit, the one-stop-shop event connecting startups in the Middle East and Africa. In its seventh edition, RiseUp will host the region’s top entrepreneurs, startups, investors, and creative masterminds in a three-day entrepreneurial marathon at AUC New …
Egyptian tycoon Abou El Enein plans to invest EGP 3.5bn over next three years
He added that increasing the private sector’s involvement in the Egyptian economy is very important, explaining that this can be stimulated through providing investment incentives.
Egypt’s economic reforms “a means to an end”, targeting poverty eradication: EGX chairperson
Banking sector represent 89.8% of total financial system assets, says CIB-Egypt chairperson
Egypt should complete its economic reform despite difficulties: CMA ex-head
During his speech at the conference, he added that there are some mistakes that Egypt has to avoid such as terminating the economic reforms, stating that Egypt has begun its economic reforms in the 70s and stopped after the 1977 bread riots.
Egypt’s exports to hike 20% by year-end: Trade Minister
About 36% of Egypt’s imports are production inputs, says Nassar
MedaWeek Barcelona 2019 opens up to the investment opportunities of the African continent
MedaWeek Barcelona 2019 will host a new edition of the New Africa Business Development Forum
World’s most profitable firm gets go-ahead for $1.5trn IPO
Aramco will release its IPO prospectus on 9 November