Egypt Today The United Nations’ Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has urged all Libyan parties, Tuesday, to “focus on holding a free, fair, inclusive and credible presidential and parliamentary elections as soon as possible”. “Libyan authorities and institutions must now work together to address the fundamental issues causing the postponement. They …
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Egypt Independent The Egyptian Senate approved article 58 of the draft new labour law, prohibiting labour for children under 15 years-old at a plenary session on Monday. The article prohibits child labour before reaching the age of 15 with the possibility of training at 14 years; on the condition that …
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Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online The Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) granted AstraZeneca’s, COVID-19 treatment, ‘Evusheld’ an emergency use authorisation (EUA) on Sunday. The EUA is a result of a recent procurement agreement for Evusheld, signed in December 2021, by AstraZeneca and the EDA for unified procurement, medical supply and technology …
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Egypt Independent Three fuel trucks exploded killing three people and a fire broke out near Abu Dhabi airport on Monday. The attack was claimed by the Iran-aligned Houthi group of Yemen, who said it was “an attack deep inside the United Arab Emirates”. “Three people were killed and six wounded …
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Egypt Today Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra agreed on the importance of achieving security and stability in Libya at a meeting in Cairo on Monday. Sisi and Lamamra affirmed the need to preserve the Libyan unity and sovereignty. They agreed on the importance of …
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Egypt Today The Egyptian pound to US dollar exchange rate remained stable at the start of trading in major Egyptian banks on Thursday. In the National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and Banque Misr, the dollar rate remained stable, recording £E15.64 for purchase and sold at £E15.74. HSBC, BLOM Bank Egypt, …
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Egypt Independent “Ethiopia plans to clear 17,000 hectares (40,000 acres) of forests around the Renaissance Dam next month, in preparation for a new filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)”, a statement announced on Thursday. The third filling announcement was made at a meeting between Ethiopian Minister of Irrigation …
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Egypt Independent The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population confirmed; “1,011 new COVID-19 cases, 21 deaths, and 912 recoveries were recorded on Thursday”. National infections tally reached 396,699, while the COVDI-19 related death toll marked 22,063 and total full patient recoveries reached 330,714 Nationwide. The Ministry of Health managed to …
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Egypt Today Palestine benefitted from FIFA’s COVID-19 Relief Plan, which helped 80 professional and grass roots clubs recover from the financial impact caused by the pandemic over the last two years. “The funds were used to help the clubs start the 2020-21 championship, which took place under the slogan Health …
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Egypt Today “Four local companies are currently manufacturing the Favipiravir drug which is used to treat mild and moderate COVID-19 cases”, Hossam Hosni, head of the Scientific Committee to Combat Coronavirus at the Ministry of Health and Population revealed on Thursday. “More medicines will be provided like, Monoclona Antibodies, which …
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