A trade that has roots
Over the last decade, Africa’s trade volume with traditional partners doubled in nominal value. Africa’s overall trade volume has more than doubled however which...
Road expansion completed ahead of canal opening
by Hassan Baraka
The Transport Ministry’s General Authority for Roads and Bridges has completed the expansion of the Ismailia road from Cairo International Airport to...
Public transport gets an upgrade
by Hassan Baraka: Minister of Transport Eng. Hani Dahi has announced that the State has embarked on a project worth LE70bn to underscore its commitment...
China, Egypt plan future cooperation
China could play a role in several major developmental projects in Egypt, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s office has said, after he met on Saturday with...
Tycoons control industrial entities
by Ahmed El-Mahdi
After the corruption case against the minister of agriculture and reports about the involvement of other officials, as well as and the...
Eating Jimmy Carter, or the army
by Hind Raafat
Some of the vendors at Ramadan yamish (dried fruit) markets are giving contemporary monikers to their commodities in order to promote them....
Coup de Maître
Attempts by the East and the West to compete for traffic through the Suez Canal never stopped. If those attempts were dominated by trade...
No Bank Accounts in Africa
by Ameera Fouad
Whereas people all around the globe usually use bank accounts for money transfer, people in Africa especially in the Sub Saharan region use...
Chairman of the Egyptian Tourism Promotion Authority: African tourism in Egypt does not exceed 1%
by Naglaa Ghonaim
The African tourism is facing differences between the initial figures, according to reports and expectations of international organisations, and the decline from...
The month of must-see television
Aside from its religious significance, the holy month of Ramadan is increasingly associated with TV programmes and soap operas in Egypt and the Arab...
China lights the way for Ramadan
It seems that Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Mounir Fakhri Abdel-Nour’s decision last April to halt imported Ramadan lanterns to save the Egyptian...