Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation Rania al-Mashat and director of the German KfW Development Bank in Egypt Bernd Siegfried signed a €26 Million financing agreement on Wednesday. The bank will fund the second phase of a rehabilitation project of hydroelectric power plants in Aswan. The …
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Mohamed Soliman – Ahram Online “Egypt is currently negotiating with an international automaker to produce electric-powered three-seater vehicles to replace three-wheeled auto-rickshaws, locally known as tuk-tuks”, Minister of the Public Business Sector Hisham Tawfik announced on Wednesday. The announcement was made at a meeting with a government committee headed by Minister …
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Egypt Today “Three polling stations have been made available for members of the French community in Egypt to vote in the second round of the French presidential elections which took place today”, French Ambassador to Cairo, Marc Baréty, revealed. The announcement was made at a contract signing ceremony at the …
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Ahram Online Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II led the Good Friday mass at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo’s Abbassiya district. Hundreds of worshipers, a host of bishops and priests attended the mass on Friday. Prayers began in the early hours of Friday and ended with the approach of sunset. …
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Egypt Today ‘Safe Woman Clinic’, the first psychotherapy clinic dedicated to abused women has been inaugurated by the Ministry of Health in a Cairo neighbourhood on Tuesday. The clinic provides first aid in case of injury, psychological counselling, therapy and self-defence techniques. The ‘Safe Woman Clinic’ will be first launched …
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Egypt Today Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry signed a Memorandum of Understanding on diplomatic studies and expertise exchange and with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Albares on Monday. Under the MoU, the Institute of Diplomatic Studies, part of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Diplomatic School of Spain …
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Egypt Today Discussions on joint manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccine were took place on Sunday at a meeting between Egyptian acting Minister of Health Khaled Abdel Ghaffar and Cuban Ambassador to Egypt Tania Aguiar Fernandez. The officials reviewed areas of possible cooperation in healthcare and scientific research. Abdel Ghaffar confirmed that …
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Egypt Independent RATP Dev Mobility Cairo, the company operating the third Cairo Metro (subway) line, celebrated the graduation of the first Egyptian female Metro train drivers on Monday. The training programme was conducted in cooperation with the Ministry of Transport and the Administration of National Authority for Tunnels (NAT). RATP …
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Egypt Today King Felipe VI of Spain received the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Madrid on Monday. “At the outset of his visit to Madrid, Spanish King HM King Felipe VI received minister Shoukry in the context of the historical friendly relations between Egypt and Spain. They discussed bilateral …
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Egypt Independent For the second time in less than four months, divers from the Red Sea city of Marsa Alam spotted the rare and endangered ocean sunfish (also known as Mola Mola) on Sunday. The ocean Sunfish is usually found in the deeper layers of waters, however, it was spotted …
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