Egyptian business community ponder Morsy’s decisions
By Mostafa Salah, Enaam el-Adawy, Nihal Monir and Wafaa Abdelbary The business community is in a state of cautious anticipation following the decision taken by President Mohamed Morsy to retire…
Pro-Saleh troops ‘attack Yemen defense ministry’
Sanaa (AFP) - Troops from Yemen's elite Republican Guard force, led by the son of ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, on Tuesday attacked the headquarters of the defence ministry but were…
Thousands of women marched in Tunis to protest constitutional amendment
Roughly 6,000 protesters, mostly female, took to the streets of Tunis
Radwan to al-Arabiya: IMF expects Egypt to devalue its currency
By Islam Serour Former Finance Minister Dr Samir Radwan told al-Arabiya News that he expects the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to demand that Egypt devalue the Egyptian pound. However, Radwan…
Eight Ugandans survive army helicopter crash, two dead
Nairobi (AFP) - Eight Ugandan servicemen walked away from their helicopter after it crashed in Kenya en route to war-torn Somalia while two soldiers were confirmed dead in another crash,…
Iraq angered by Kurdish deal with French Total
Total penned a deal for Halfaya with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil at the end of 2009
Vodafone Ventures’ Fund invest in two companies and targets expansion
By Mohamed Fawzy Hatem Dowidar, CEO of Vodafone Egypt, said that in two weeks Vodafone Ventures Fund (VVF) will announce its investment in two companies without exceeding 30% of its…
Iran welcomes foreign earthquake aid
Many countries have extended sympathies to the victims of the twin quakes
OTH achieves 15 percent subscriber growth, one percent revenue growth
By Islam Serour Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) consolidated financial and operating results for the first half of 2012 shows a 14.8 percent growth in its subscribers’ base, reaching 83,384 subscribers,…
CIB and EFG-Hermes take over one-third of Tuesday’s trading
By Islam Serour Commercial International Bank (CIB) and Hermes Financial group represented one-third of the total market turnover on Tuesday, after two weeks of stability. The CIB stock witnessed active…