Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa won the CAF Champions League for the first time Sunday despite a 1-0 second-leg final loss to Zamalek of Egypt in Alexandria. A Stanley Ohawuchi goal on 64 minutes was not enough for the home team before a 60,000 crowd as they trailed 3-0 from …
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A senior Egyptian army officer was shot dead outside his home in a Cairo suburb on Saturday, a military official and a relative has told Agence France Presse. Jihadists have killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers, mostly in the Sinai Peninsula, but such attacks on senior officers are rare. Brigadier …
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African football body CAF has released the lists of nominees for the two major annual individual awards, the African Player of the Year and the Africa-based Player of the Year: Algeria: Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City/ENG), Islam Slimani (Leicester City/ENG), El Arabi Hillel Soudani (Dinamo Zagreb/CRO) Cameroon: Samuel Eto’o (Antalyaspor/TUR), …
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Syrian security services chief Ali Mamluk met with Egyptian officials in his first public foreign visit in five years, state media in Damascus said on Monday. State news agency SANA said Mamluk met with Egyptian head of general intelligence Khaled Fawzy and other “high-level security officials” during his one-day visit. …
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An attack on an Egyptian military checkpoint killed 12 soldiers and wounded six others on Friday in the Sinai Peninsula where security forces are fighting jihadists, the army said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack. Mortar rounds and rockets were fired at the army post, a police …
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China property company CFLD has been awarded the contract to build a new administrative capital city in Egypt. The new city will be located between Cairo and Suez and, once completed, the new administrative capital will serve as Egypt’s new political and financial centre and will effectively drive the development …
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Egypt has invited tenders to meet its refined oil products needs for October after Saudi Aramco halted the expected delivery of 700,000 tonnes for this month, the petroleum ministry said on Tuesday. The move by the Saudi oil giant was a surprise as Riyadh has been one of the main …
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Russia and Egypt will hold joint military drills involving airborne troops on Egyptian soil for the first time this month, the Russian defence ministry said Tuesday. “The joint Russian-Egyptian drills will happen in mid-October 2016 on the territory of Egypt,” it said, without specifying their start date. The drills, called …
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Investment into Africa may buck the global downward trend and stage a rebound this year despite low prices hitting the oil and gas sector, a UN agency said Thursday. While foreign direct investment, a key driver of trade and economic growth, is set to drop by 10 to 15 percent …
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Egypt moved from 116th to 115th in the World Economic Forum’s Global competitiveness report, published at the end of September 2016. According to the authors of the report: “To create growth and employment, Egypt could build on its large market size (25th); its business sector, which by some accounts appears more …
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