Thursday 9th September, 2010

• Egypt's Orascom Construction JV Unit Wins $675M Doha Contract

  General Sources

  's joint venture with Besix Group, has won a $675 million contract to help construct the Doha Convention Center & Tower in Qatar. Six Construct will build a phase of the Doha Convention Center & Tower...

• FEATURE-Israel eyes impound of ships breaking Gaza blockade

  Reuters

  JERUSALEM/LONDON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Anticipating fresh bids by pro-Palestinian activists to sail against its Gaza Strip blockade, and hoping to avoid a repeat of its bloody boarding of a Turkish a...

• UPDATE 1-Wheat price spike raises food insecurity-UN expert

  Reuters

  GENEVA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Riots over high bread prices in Mozambique and food shortages elsewhere should be a wake-up call for governments which papered over food security problems that arose two ...

• [09/08] Among Egypt's Christians, few question Church rule

  Find Law

  ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) - When Irini Ibrahim, a young Coptic Christian woman, floated the idea of divorce from a husband she said was abusing her, her parents immediately opposed it, reminding her of t...

• AfDB's Response to Climate Change in Africa

  All Africa

  SPONSOR WIRE The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is taking a lead in addressing climate change issues which are adversely impacting on the African continent. According to Youssef Arfaoui, a Sen...

• ElBaradei calls for election boycott in Egypt

  Earth Times

  Cairo - Egypt's opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has called for a boycott of the upcoming parliamentary election, media reports Wednesday said.After the end of his 12-year tenure as head of the Int...

• VimpelCom not obligated to buy minority stake in OT if merger completed: FSA

  Arab Finance

  A prominent official in Financial Supervisory Authority excluded any possible commitment by FSA to Russian VimpelCom to submit mandatory offer to talks between Weather Investments and buy minority sta...

• TE can’t buy Mobinil under preemption right, says official

  Arab Finance

  ). “News about Telecom Egypt buying to Mobinil according to preemption right is idle talk,” said Elgoweny, adding that TE is not committed to sell its stake in Vodafone Egypt if it buys any stake...

• ODH sets up Four Seasons Elgona & Oman at $ 245 m; Beltone says positive

  Arab Finance

  : Orascom Development Holding AG (ODHN) is intending to start construction works of the two hotels of Four Seasons Elgona and Oman in the second half of 2011 at investment cost of $ 85 million for Elg...

• Egypt's Mobinil mulls $180m bond issue

  General Sources

  (MENAFN) The Chief Executive Officer at Mobinil, Egypt's biggest mobile firm by subscribers, said that the company is considering issuing bonds with a value of $180 million, Reuters reported.Mobinil i...

• Egypt's OCI wins $675 mln Qatar project

  General Sources

  CAIRO, Sept 8 - A unit of Egypt's Orascom Construction Industries won a $675 million contract to build an additional phase of Doha Convention Center and Tower in Qatar, further...

• Tightening divorce ban highlights how Egypt's Christians cleave closer to their Church

  Sun-Sentinel

  Egypt (AP) — When Irini Ibrahim, a young Coptic Christian woman, floated the idea of divorce from a husband she said was abusing her, her parents immediately opposed it, reminding her of the Bib...

• Egyptian officials to face trial over Van Gogh theft

  Breitbart

  A senior culture ministry official and the head of a Cairo museum from which a Van Gogh painting was stolen will stand trial on charges of negligence, a judicial source said on Monday. The trial of...

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