Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Hani Sewilam said on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, the ministry would provide all necessary support to ensure the success of the Egyptian-Italian Agro Schools for Water Technology, describing them as a leading model for specialized technical education. During a meeting with the ministry’s officials, Sewilam reviewed the operation of the …
Local Development and Environment Minister Manal Awad discussed on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, with a World Bank delegation, led by Regional Director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti Alwaleed Al-Atbani, progress on the Greater Cairo Air Pollution and Climate Change Management Project, implemented in cooperation with the bank. The meeting, held at the ministry’s headquarters in …
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, witnessed the signing of a partnership agreement between PRE-Group and global hospitality company Hilton to develop and manage an integrated hotel portfolio in Egypt, with investments estimated at LE14 billion. The agreement is expected to add around 2,000 hotel rooms and branded residential units to Egypt’s …
Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar held on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, talks with Zheng Zhe, Deputy Minister of China’s National Health Commission (NHC), on ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in localizing medical industries, manufacturing medicines and vaccines, digital transformation, exchanging expertise and medical training. During the meeting, the minister also reviewed a …
France is blaming Iran for last month’s supermarket refrigerator cyberattack, which spoiled produce at around 700 retailers, and is vowing to slap sanctions on Tehran in response. “This was an attack of unprecedented scale and unprecedented aggressiveness,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told reporters Monday. He described it as the first large-scale cyberattack carried out for …
It remains unlikely that President Donald Trump would ever sign off on giving millions of undocumented immigrants a path to legal status. But after a brutal 2026 election for Republicans, he’s talking about it again. And it’s setting off a major — and seemingly unnecessary — backlash in his base at about the worst possible …
Footage exclusively obtained from Ukrainian authorities and analyzed by CNN reveals new details of how Russia struck an underground shelter in southeastern Ukraine with a massive bunker-busting bomb. The November 2 attack on a village in southern Ukraine killed more than 50 people, becoming the deadliest Russian strike on Ukraine in 2026 and among the …
Deep into President Donald Trump’s news conference Monday, it became obvious why he’s so adamant in backing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid an impeachment storm. Ultimately, Trump is defending himself. To jettison the former Fox News anchor now would be to admit that the Iran war — of which Hegseth is the administration’s most vehement …
Drive Finance, a subsidiary of GB Capital and the non-bank financial services arm of GB Corp, has completed an EGP 1.5bn bond issuance with a maturity of 13 months, the company announced. The issuance is a key pillar of Drive Finance’s strategy to diversify its funding sources, strengthen its capital structure and sustain expansion across […]
Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Raafat Hendy delivered Egypt’s address to the plenary session of the International Telecommunication Union’s Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-26) in Doha, where he announced that Egypt is renewing its candidacy for a seat on the ITU Council representing Africa. Hendy spoke in the presence of ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin, alongside […]
Two ministers and the governor of Cairo on Monday opened the capital’s first shelter for stray dogs, a 5,000 sq m site east of the Autostrad road in El Tebbin, south of the city. Manal Awad, minister of local development and environment, Agriculture Minister Alaa Farouk and Cairo Governor Ibrahim Saber toured the facility alongside […]
Mohamed Abou Bakr, Chairperson of the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI), received Gildas Agonkan, Minister Delegate to the President of Benin in charge of National Defence, and his accompanying delegation to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation and leverage the AOI’s advanced industrial capabilities to meet Benin’s needs in development projects, defence and security industries, […]
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities is using augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) to recreate the fifth-century architecture and spiritual heritage of the historic Abu Mena archaeological site and Saint Mina Monastery in Alexandria. During a meeting chaired by Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy, ministry officials met with a delegation led […]
Egypt’s Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Mohamed Farid met executives from France’s Salins Group at the ministry’s headquarters in Cairo to discuss the company’s plans to expand its business in Egypt. Farid met Benjamin Duchesne, general manager of Marine Salt Trading Cie, a Salins Group subsidiary, and export manager Gaëlle Doussard, in the presence […]
Mahmoud Esmat, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, met with a delegation from Advanced Engineering Consultants (ADVEC), a company specialising in energy management, renewable energy integration and electricity grid solutions, headed by CEO Ahmed Salam. The meeting was attended by Ali Abdel Fattah, Chairperson of the Egyptian Electric Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency (EgyptERA). […]
Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Mohamed Farid met with Adeeb Yousuf Al-Aama, CEO of the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), and an accompanying delegation to discuss ways to strengthen cooperation in export financing, start-up support, investment zone development, and the use of technology and artificial intelligence to promote foreign trade. The meeting formed […]