7/29/2016 - Egypt will pay USD 8 billion from its debts during the current fiscal year, said Deputy Finance Minister for Financial Policies Ahmed Koujak. In statements, Koujak added that obtaining a lo... |
7/29/2016 - Prime Minister Sherif Ismail received President of Terra Sola Swiss group David Heimhofer. The meeting tackled the executive steps regarding the establishment of a plant for the production ... |
7/30/2016 - Trade and Industry Minister Tarek Kabil held talks with a delegation of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a key Japanese company, on Mistubishi's future projects in Egypt. In statements, Kabil s... |
7/30/2016 - Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr reviewed final measures of the first batch of a Saudi loan to bankroll a Sinai development program. Egypt will receive 500 million dollars w... |
7/31/2016 - Telecom Egypt (TE), the state-owned landline monopoly, said its board had tentatively approved plans to buy a fourth-generation mobile licence and a company official said it would offer the services w... |
7/31/2016 - Minister of International Cooperation Dr. Sahar Nasr has received a World Bank delegation, currently visiting Cairo for talks on Egypt’s new and ambitious plan for the reclamation of 1.5 million fedda... |
7/31/2016 - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi chaired a meeting including Prime Minister Sherif Ismail and Finance Minister Amr Garhy. The meeting reviewed the current tax system in Egypt and the general... |
7/31/2016 - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not imposed any preconditions on Egypt in order to implement a mooted $12 billion loan package, the country's finance ministry said. The ministry's r... |
8/1/2016 - Egypt's Finance Minister Amr al-Garhy said in a television interview that Egypt's external debt would reach $53.4 billion if his country receives an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan. La... |
8/1/2016 - President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Egyptians that tough measures would be needed to turn the country's ailing economy around, as the government negotiates a $12 billion loan programme with the Inte... |
8/1/2016 - Transport Minister Galal el-Saeed and Chairman of the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) Abdel Aziz Seif Eddin attended a ceremony marking the OAI delivery of two air-conditioned railway an... |
8/1/2016 - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met with Investment Minister Dalia Khorshed. The meeting took up steps to offer capital of public sector companies on the Stock Exchange, said presidential ... |
8/2/2016 - Forty ships transited the Suez Canal with a total cargo of 2.3 million tons. The south-bound convoy included 22 vessels carrying 1.6 million tons, while the north-bound convoy included 18 shi... |
8/2/2016 - Prime Minister Sherif Ismail received members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, currently on a visit to Cairo, with the governor of the Central Bank of Egypt and the finance minister a... |
8/2/2016 - Finance Minister Amr Al Garhy said the IMF did not call for introducing any taxation amendments or laying off two million state civil servants from the state machinery. Garhy said the IMF ... |
8/2/2016 - The Egyptian government will target state-owned firms in the banking, petroleum and electricity sectors for the first wave of its privatization program, selecting several companies for initial public ... |
8/3/2016 - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has stressed the importance of upgrading the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), which he called a vital facility of international trade movement. Sisi, at a meeting... |
8/3/2016 - Prime Minister Sherif Ismail held a meeting with the chief executive of Siemens to discuss energy projects and plans to manufacture rail tractors. The meeting was attended by the ministers... |
8/3/2016 - Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr signed a grant agreement with the director of the French Development Agency (FDA) bureau in Cairo. The one-million-euro grant will be chann... |
8/3/2016 - Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said his government works to provide funding for development projects of dangerous slums home to 850,000 people. During a visit to the Housing Minister, the pre... |