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Well Make Egypt Safe for Aio Delegates - Loc
Egyptian officials have given firm assurances that necessary precautions have been taken to ensure the safety of the 700 delegates before, during and after the 40th African Insurance organisation national assembly/conference. The Chairman of the Local Organising Committee, LOC and also the chairman of Insurance Federation of ...
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Egypt boosts Sinai forces amid hostage crisis
EL-ARISH, Egypt - The Egyptian army sent reinforcements into the Sinai Peninsula on Monday after President Mohamed Morsi said there would be no talks with militant Islamists ...
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Will U.S. Designate Egypt Pakistan Iraq and Nigeria As Religious Freedom Violators
Pakistani Christians protest against the country's blasphemy laws and violence targeting their minority community. An independent U.S. watchdog has urged the executive branch every year since 2002 to designate Pakistan as a "country of particular concern" over religious freedom violations. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - As the State Department prepares to release its annual report on ...
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AfDB Set to Help African Countries Better Exploit AGOA Export Opportunities
The African Development Bank is working towards helping African countries better benefit from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) ...
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Today Arab Ceramics last cash dividends date
) declared cash dividends of LE 1.50 per share payable on 23/05/2013. Shareholders as of 20/05/2013 are entitled to cash dividends ...
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Egyptian army boosts forces in Sinai after kidnapping
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Egyptian policemen shout slogans from the gates of the main Egyptian crossing point into the Gaza Strip, which has been closed for the third day, in Rafah city, about 350 km (217 miles) ...
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Egypt cuts size of bond auction after funds decree trims demand
Egyptian pounds from the 1.5 billion the central bank initially sought. The central bank, worried that banks were investing too heavily in the local money market and fixed income funds, said last week that banks would not be able to invest more than 2 percent of their Tier One capital in the funds, down from the previous 5 percent. Dealers expected the decree would continue to reduce demand ...
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Equatorial Guinea prohibits Egypt revolt reports
No talk of a Tunisia or Egypt-style revolutions in Equatorial Guinea. These were the orders given to media in the country, which all are controlled by the state or the family of President Teodoro Obiang ...
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161 Egyptian students suffer food poisoning
About 161 Egyptian students of al- Azhar University have been infected with food poisoning, with no deaths reported, spokesman for the Ministry of Health Yahia Moussa told Xinhua on Tuesday. "So far, 161 students of al-Azhar University were hospitalized due to the food poisoning since Monday night," said Moussa, adding that 95 people were recovered, while others were still under ...
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IHG Academy at InterContinental Cairo CityStars signs apprenticeship agreement with Helwan University
InterContinental Cairo CityStars launched a new academy within CityStars Complex to reach fruitful apprenticeship agreements under the management of Nasser Fadly the Area Director of Human Resources IHG Egypt and supervision of Egyptian Faculties of Tourism and Hospitality and High Institutions of Hospitality.Dr. Yasser Shaker, President of Helwan University, and Simon Stamper, Regional General ...
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Security beefed up in Egypts Sinai after kidnapping of security personnel
CAIRO - Egyptian officials say dozens of military and police armoured vehicles have crossed into Sinai, beefing up the security presence in the volatile peninsula five days after suspected militants kidnapped six policemen and a border guard there. Islamist President Mohammed Morsi said all options are open to free the seven men. Officials have said mediators were in touch with the captors. ...
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Egypt sends more forces over Sinai kidnapping
Egypt's army has sent reinforcements into the Sinai Peninsula after President Mohamed Morsi said there would be no talks with fighters who abducted seven members of the security forces last week. An army official said on Monday that the decision followed a meeting between the military leadership and Morsi, who has said he will not submit to blackmail by the kidnappers, who are demanding ...
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Cameroon plans Egypt-like protests
Opposition groups, trade unions and Diaspora groups are preparing "Egypt-like" protests in Cameroon tomorrow, 23 February, to call for President Paul Biya to step down. The US Embassy warns of possible ...
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Egypt breaks ammunition development contract with Russia - Izvestia newspaper
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In Egypt even an autopsy is political
CAIRO , Egypt -- Egyptian forensic officials in Cairo say they are struggling with the overwhelming number of bodies that continue to arrive at their facilities bearing marks of torture and abuse in police custody, even when the streets are calm from political unrest. Senior pathologists with the government-affiliated Forensic Medical Authority (FMA) -- speaking to GlobalPost on the condition ...
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One third of Egypt households have Internet Government agency
- One third of Egyptian households had internet access in 2012, three million more than in 2011, Egypt's official statistics agency CAPMAS announced on Saturday. Following ten years of gradually increasing internet penetration, national Internet use spiked following Egypt's January 2011 revolution, growing by 17 percent in a single year to reach 31 million by July 2012, according to a ...
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Egypt Appoints New Chief of State Oil Firm
Egypt's oil ministry Monday named Tarek El-Barkatawy chief executive of state-owned Egyptian General Petroleum Corp., or EGPC, at a time when the country is facing a severe fuel shortage and needs to negotiate favorable rates with oil producers. Mr. El-Barkatawy replaces Sherif Haddara, who was appointed oil minister in a cabinet reshuffle earlier this month. Mr. El-Barkatawy served as ...
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No ownerships for Egyptians or foreigners in Suez Canal Corridor Minister
Minister of Housing Tarek Wafiq confirmed, in a lecture he gave at the closing session of Egyptian engineers meeting in Riyadh, that Suez Canal Corridor development project is fully under the State's control. There are no plans to sell lands to any Egyptian or foreign investor operating in the project and the system of usufruct will be applied while handling the project, he ...
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African dreams of Egypt-like revolt
All over Africa, the dramatic events in Tunisia and Egypt are followed, with opposition groups and dissidents hoping the same could happen in their country. Mostly, these are only dreams, but some could come ...
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Unpopular Egyptian central bank decision increases yields on treasury bills
Central Bank of Egypt Yields on Egyptian three- and nine-month treasury bills climbed on Sunday and the auction's size was reduced after a new central bank decree limited the amount of funds that banks can channel into money market funds to buy T-bills.The central bank said it had sold only 3.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($501.7 million) of T-bills instead of the 6 billion pounds it originally ...
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Morsi NGOs Law to be discussed with different parties before its approval
President Mohamed Morsi said a draft law on non-governmental organizations will not be approved before discussing it with all the civil society parties so that it may be satisfactory to all and support voluntary work in the field of development. This came during the president's meeting with the members of the General Federation of ...
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Zim treason charges for viewing Egypt on TV
The Robert Mugabe government on 19 February ordered the arrest of 46 activists attending a meeting organised by the International Socialist Organisation at which footage of the Egypt protests were shown and discussed. These 46 now have been charged with treason. "They were watching DVD news clips of the protests in Tunisia and Egypt," Roselyn Hanzi of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human ...
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If Egypt can we can do it too - Swazi opposition
"Tunisia and Egypt are a big 'we can do it too,' not just for Swaziland, but for the rest of the African continent and the repressed Arab world," according to the Swazi ...
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Zimbabweans missing after Egypt party
Five young Zimbabweans have gone "missing" after celebrating the victory of the Egyptian revolution. The five opposition supporters are believed to be in ...
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Egypt court suspends planned election date
An Egyptian court today ruled that the parliamentary elections, which President Mohammed Morsi had decreed for 22 April, must be postponed. Judges say the Constitutional Court needs time to approve the new Electoral Code. Mr Morsi says he will appeal the ...
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Cairo leading new wave in literature
The publishing industry in Cairo is undergoing a profound change that may have implications for the day-to-day life of Egyptians for years to come, it is a kind of revolution in literature that may one day put Cairo on the map, nestled among those other publishing powerhouses, New York, London, and Chicago primarily, but also regional publishing centers like Johannesburg, Mumbai, and Sydney.
Cairo is already a literature producing city, but it is more commonly associated with Arabic texts, and these pieces of literature are further associated with sweeping assessments of society, societal change, politics and religion on a macrocosmic level. Traditionally, there has also never been much of a local market for literature in Cairo or wider Egypt, leading to an old saying that books are written in Cairo, but published in Beirut and then read in Baghdad. Read more
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