Prosecution to investigate Sinai attacks, Al-Sisi praises efforts of counter-terrorism

The president asserted that the world needs to take a firm stance against militancy

Daily News Egypt

Al-Sisi to attend November economic summit in Nicosia with Greek, Cypriot counterparts

The president discussed with the Cabinet preparations of his upcoming visit to France

Daily News Egypt

#MeToo: “magnitude of sexual harassment problem” highlighted in Egypt

Hashtag induced focusing on perpetrators of sexual violence

Amira El-Fekki

Parliament’s Human Rights to set up CD on prisons inspection visits to respond to torture allegation 

The committee will further release detailed report on these visits that started in mid September

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Egypt first Arab country to implement conditional monetary support programs: CAPMAS

The number of beneficiary families of Takaful and Karama programs since March 2015 to May 2017 is estimated at 1.7 million

Reem Hosam El-din

BNP Paribas arranges €98.5m loan to EETC

Loan will be used to finance the construction of the Samannoud and Abu Al Matamir transformer substations

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IFC, Switzerland sign agreement to expand financing women across MENA

Women own over 300,000 SMEs in MENA, which is about a third of SMEs of the region, says IFC

Shaimaa Al-Aees

The government is working to increase growth rates to reduce poverty

We are working to achieve economic growth of not less than 5% during the current fiscal year: El Garhy

Mohamed Ayyad

21.4% decline in Nile Pharma’s profits in Q1 of 2017

The company achieved profits of EGP 5.5m between January and March

Daily News Egypt