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Egypt Independent Egyptian footballer and Liverpool FC star Mohamed Salah won the Liverpool ‘Standard Chartered Men’s Player of the Season 2021-22’ award on Wednesday. This is the second year in a row where Salah won the player of the season by supporters and Forever Reds, which is the club’s official former players …

Egypt Today Egyptian satellite ‘Nilesat 301’ was launched by the SpaceX rocket ‘Falcon 9’ from the US city of Florida on Wednesday. Last year, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, announced that Egypt would launch two satellites in 2022. The last Egyptian satellite launched was ‘Tiba-1’, …

Ahram Online According to a report by the World Bank on Tuesday, the economic growth rate projection for the Egyptian economy is expected to rise from 5.9% to 6.1% in the fiscal year (FY) 2021/22. “The Egyptian economy is expected to record 4.8% growth in the FY 2022/23, a 0.7% downgrade …

Ahram Online Egyptian Foreign Minister and President-designate of the 27th session of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) Sameh Shoukry held a series of meetings at the Bonn UN Climate Conference in Germany on Tuesday and Wednesday. “The 56th session of subsidiary bodies aims to lay the groundwork for success …

Egypt Today The New Valley’s Al-Kharga city was declared the first environmentally friendly city in Egypt by Minister of Environment Yasmin Fouad on Monday. The announcement was made at the city at the Minister visit which coincided with the World Environment Day. Al-Kharga was chosen to be eco-friendly, due its …

Egypt Today Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed expanding cooperation with a delegation of executive directors from the World Bank on Monday. The officials explored cooperation opportunities between the bank and African countries to generate clean and renewable energy. “The Egyptian government and the World Bank share the same priorities …

Ahram Online “Egypt will donate 30 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to African countries”, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi announced the pledge at the Africa Health ExCon conference in Cairo on Sunday. The initiative will be fulfilled in coordination with the African Union. Sisi expressed readiness to cooperate with African nations in different …

Ahram Online Prosecutors from the US state of New York seized five Egyptian artefacts worth more than $3 Million from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The decision is part of an investigation into international trafficking involving the Louvre Museum in France. “The artefacts include a group of painted linen fragments …

Egypt Independent Professional Egyptian handball player Marwa Eid Abdel Malik won the best player award in ‘LFH Division 1 Féminine’, which is part of the premier women’s handball league in France. Marwa scored 143 goals in a total of 22 out of 26 matches in the league. She won the competition’s …

Egypt Today “As for drought durations, the water flowing into the reservoir will remain in the dam”, the General Manager of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Kifle Horo, told Al Arabiyah on Monday. Horo explained, “during heavy rains, water would overflow in the direction of the two downstream countries. …