Year: 2015

Egypt’s average wheat self-sufficiency reaches 54.9% over 10 years

Egypt’s wheat production reached 9.5m tonnes in 2012/2013, imports record 6.8m tonnes,…

Rana Yehia

Bisco Misr approves optional delisting from EGX

Approval comes after New York stock market-listed firm Kellogg recently acquired 85.93%…

Menna Samir

Emirates NDB provides EGP 250m loan to National Port Said Steel Company

Bank grants Suez Canal Authority $100m as part of syndicated loan to…

Daily News Egypt

Hassam Allam to start construction of $80m solar project in Q1 2016

Company signed agreement with NREA to develop 50 MW solar power plant…

Doaa Farid

Egypt increases exports support fund by 92%

The decision will contribute to increasing Egyptian products’ opportunities to compete in…

Shaimaa Al-Aees

Al-Azhar condemns Dutch parliamentarian’s attempted publishing of anti-Islam video

Wilders said he will publish cartoon video on Prophet Mohammed to counter…

Daily News Egypt

Hisham Talaat Mostafa’s release on medical grounds postponed

Decision postponed to 25 July session pending investigation into validity of medical…

Yousef Saba

NBE to issue dollar bonds in August: Soliman

Bank will negotiate with five international banks on Wednesday to promote bonds…

Daily News Egypt

British intelligence agency spied on leading Egyptian human rights NGO

Ruling suggests intelligence agency may practice widespread monitoring of rights bodies worldwide

Emir Nader

Egypt to confiscate ‘fundamentalist’ books from mosques

Endowments ministry officials say any book that violates “lenient” Islamic teaching will…

Adham Youssef