Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online “The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) supports Egypt’s efforts accelerating green transformation and investment ahead of it hosting the UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP27) in November”, said EBRD’s Vice President for Policy and Partnerships Mark Bowman. Bowman spoke to Ahram Online during …
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in tackles accelerating economic momentum with Egypt
Alaa Thabet – Ahram Online South Korean President Moon Jae-in believes “Egypt is a magnet for global investments with a huge potential for growth”. This is why the two countries signed a comprehensive partnership agreement during President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s visit to Seoul in March 2016. Moon landed in Cairo on …
Read More »Lebanese PM Mikati reflects on cooperation with Egypt
Mohamed al-Qazzaz – Ahram Online Discussing Egypt’s cooperation with Lebanon to solve the countries energy crisis and develop its economy, Al-Ahram Daily Newspaper interviewed Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, during his first official visiti to Egypt on Thursday. First of all, how would you describe your visit to Egypt and …
Read More »“Spain keen on providing Egypt with COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX”; Spanish PM
Alaa Thabet – Ahram Online During his official visit to Egypt, Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, spoke to Al-Ahram’s editor-in-chief on a host of issues including fostering economic and political cooperation between the two countries, strengthening Spanish-Egyptian strategic partnership in the Mediterranean region, providing coronavirus vaccines to Egypt, and efforts to …
Read More »Boeing’s VP on Egypt’s EDEX and an outlook on aviation in MENA region
Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online At ‘EDEX-21’, Ahram Online interviewed Boeing’s Vice President for Business Development, Defence, Space and Security in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, Rick Lamester on the future of the aviation industry amid the ongoing pandemic. The discussion covered the new products and technologies Boeing …
Read More »World Bank official: Egypt is a potential regional economic hub
Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online “Egypt has done well regarding the implementation of its economic reforms and the government performance amid the pandemic. It has the potential to serve as a regional economic hub”, Merza Hasan, the dean of the Board of Executive Directors at the World Bank Group told …
Read More »“Yemen is heading towards humanitarian crisis”, says Yemeni PM
Alaa Thabet – Ahram Online In an interview with Al-Ahram Chief Editor during his brief visit to Cairo, Maeen Abdulmalik affirmed that his government will always support peace efforts and will never stand in the way of peaceful solutions. Yemen’s Prime Minister, Maeen Abdulmalik, called upon the international community to …
Read More »Egypt is EU’s biggest investment market in Africa and second in UfM: Christian Berger
Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online Christian Berger, the European Union (EU) delegation’s Ambassador to Egypt, spoke to Ahram Online AT the second ministerial conference of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), which kicked off in Cairo on Monday. “Egypt is the largest investment market for the EU in Africa and …
Read More »Ingrid Volkmer talks about journalists’ responsibility in global crises
Ashraf Amin – Ahram Online Ingrid Volkmer, professor of digital communication and globalisation at the University of Melbourne, spoke to Ahram Online about the impact of the pandemic on journalism, which has led her and a group of media scholars to create the Global Risk Journalism Hub, an international research network …
Read More »Confronting the lethal black fungus disease
Ahram Online Dr. Ashraf Ibrahim, a lead investigator at Lundquist Institute and Professor of Infectious Diseases at UCLA, explains to Ahram Online the causes behind the spread of Mucormycosis (black fungus) across India, and the precautionary measures to reduce infection. Born and raised in Kuwait to Arab Expatriate parents, Dr. …
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