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Egypt foreign investment talks moved forward this week in Cairo. Mohamed Awad, head of Egypt’s General Authority for Investment and Free Zones, met with a senior Gulf business leader. The two discussed ways to deepen trade and investment ties between Egypt and Gulf partners. Officials called the meeting productive and forward looking. Egypt has worked hard in recent years to attract more foreign capital. The country runs several free zones designed to draw factories and export businesses. These zones offer lower taxes and simpler rules for companies that set up there. Officials hope more Gulf investment will bring new jobs…

Egypt’s foreign minister has called on BRICS leaders to help calm tensions in the Middle East. Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty raised the issue at a major gathering of the bloc. He pushed for faster steps to ease the crisis in Gaza. He also asked for stronger support for security across the Gulf region. The BRICS group includes major emerging economies from several continents. Egypt joined the bloc in recent years and often uses its seat there to push regional issues. Cairo has long played a key role in talks tied to Gaza. It shares a border with the territory and…

Commercial International Bank has completed a securitisation issuance worth one point three eight three billion Egyptian pounds on behalf of Egypt’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency, marking the inaugural transaction under a broader three year programme valued at five billion pounds total. The deal channels fresh liquidity toward an agency whose borrowers include corner shops, small workshops, and modest factories across the country. Securitisation works by bundling a pool of existing loans into a security that investors can purchase, with those investors then receiving payments drawn from the ongoing loan repayments generated by the underlying portfolio. This structure…

Egypt’s Meteorological Authority has issued a fresh weather advisory for today, warning of hot and humid conditions across most regions combined with dense morning fog affecting major roadways nationwide. The advisory carries particular weight given its timing, arriving just as the new academic year gets underway across the country, prompting officials to urge extreme caution among commuters and parents navigating school runs during hours of reduced visibility. According to the authority’s forecast, conditions this morning remained moderate to warm and humid before transitioning into a hot, humid daytime pattern across northern regions and Greater Cairo. In the capital and across…

Egyptian investment officials have held a flurry of meetings with UAE based companies and business leaders this week, part of an intensifying push to attract Emirati capital into the Egyptian market. Mohamed Awad, chief executive of the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones, met with Khalid Jassim Mohammed Bin Kalban, vice chairman and chief executive of Dubai Investments, to discuss the company’s plans to expand its footprint across Egypt. During their discussion, Awad emphasized the value of drawing on Dubai Investments’ extensive experience developing large scale projects, planned cities, and industrial zones, suggesting Egyptian officials see the Emirati firm’s…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived in New Delhi to join thirteen world leaders at the eighteenth BRICS Summit, which formally opens its core proceedings today under India’s chairship. The two day gathering brings together heads of state and senior officials from BRICS member nations, partner countries, and major international organizations, with Sisi scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the summit sidelines. Sisi’s visit marks his first trip to India since attending the G20 Leaders’ Summit back in September 2023, giving today’s engagement particular significance given the relatively limited direct contact between the…

Millions of Egyptians are eagerly awaiting the official reopening of Giza Zoo, one of the world’s oldest zoological gardens, following nearly three years of comprehensive redevelopment aimed at transforming the historic site into a world class tourist and cultural destination. The zoo, established during the reign of Khedive Ismail in 1891, is expected to welcome visitors again during the fourth quarter of this year, following a phased reopening process that officials say will begin with a trial period before full public access resumes. The scale of the transformation underway reflects a genuine effort to restore the zoo’s standing as a…

Tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile water rights have flared again in recent weeks, following Ethiopian plans to construct three additional dams on the Blue Nile just months after the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam was formally completed. Egyptian officials and water security experts have expressed renewed alarm, warning the new projects could further strain a water supply already stretched by the country’s growing population. The latest controversy traces back to comments from Ethiopia’s Water and Energy Minister, who stated in a television interview that his country intends to control the flow of the Nile to both Egypt and…

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly directed officials this week to begin immediate implementation of the Greening Cairo initiative, ordering tree planting along the capital’s Ring Road and other major thoroughfares alongside a citywide inventory of vacant government land suitable for conversion into parks and green space. The directive followed President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s original order launching the broader campaign aimed at transforming underused urban areas throughout Cairo. Under the plan, government agencies currently controlling undeveloped land within the capital will receive compensatory plots in Egypt’s newer planned cities, clearing the way for their existing urban holdings to be converted into…

Egypt is hosting the 12th All Africa University Games this week, welcoming roughly two thousand student athletes and officials from universities across the African continent for a nine day celebration of continental university sport running through September 16. The event marks the first time Egypt has hosted the games, known formally by the acronym FASU after the Federation of Africa University Sports, which organizes the competition every two years. The opening ceremony took place at Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, capping an Olympic style torch relay that traveled across multiple Egyptian university campuses before reaching the main venue. The torch relay…