Egypt Today “Egyptian stocks of wheat are sufficient for four months”, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly told a press conference on Wednesday. “The wheat’s harvesting season will start in mid-April. Egypt has enough wheat and will not resort to the international market until late 2022”, the PM explained. Madbouly confirmed “the …
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Ahram Online Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi stressed in a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday the need to prioritise dialogue to settle the Ukraine crisis. “Egypt is ready to support the diplomatic endeavours to facilitate a political settlement to end the conflict and preserve international security and …
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Egypt Independent Gold prices recorded an unprecedented rise in global and Egyptian markets on Tuesday. Gold prices rose significantly despite a ceasefire announced by Russia in Ukraine. On Monday, Egyptian gold transactions saw the 24-karat gold settled at £E1,013/gram, the 21-karat gold reached £E886/gram and the 18-karat gold marked £E760/gram. …
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Egypt Today Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on Monday recalling Ukrainian peacekeepers from the United Nations missions across the world. “President of Ukraine V. Zelensky has decided to recall Ukrainian peacekeepers from all missions around the world, along with their hardware to strengthen our army now in response …
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Ahram Online Cairo International Airport received an Air Cairo flight carrying 174 Egyptian expatriates from Poland on Monday after fleeing crisis-hit the Ukraine. Since the start of the Russian operation on 24 February hundreds of Egyptian expats have fled the conflict to Austria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Over the …
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Egypt Today “A total of 2,396 elements of the Ukrainian military infrastructure have been destroyed over the first ten days of the operation”, spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defence, Igor Konashenkov, said at a press briefing on Monday. “Among them are 82 control and communications centres of the Ukrainian …
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Ahram Online “Egypt will send an aircraft in the coming days to the Slovakian capital of Bratislava to repatriate Nationals who crossed the borders from the Ukraine to Slovakia”, the Egyptian Embassy in Kyiv announced on Sunday. “Egyptians who are currently in Slovakia and wish to return home onboard of …
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Ahram Online “Egypt has launched an air bridge to repatriate expatriates who crossed borders from Ukraine to neighbouring European countries”, Minister of Emigration and Expatriate Affairs Nabila Makram said on Thursday. “Egyptians in the Eastern Ukrainian cities should remain cautious while heading from Kharkiv to Cossack Lopan village, and from Sumy to Sutga …
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There has been positive response to the appeal by the Ukrainian president for EU membership. But it won’t come soon. Dorina Baltag* On Sunday, the fourth day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, appealed for it to be granted membership of the European Union. On Tuesday, members of the …
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Egypt Today Egypt voted in favour of a United Nations resolution on Wednesday demanding an end to the Russian operation on Ukraine. A total of 141 countries in the UN General Assembly voted in favour of the resolution, five countries voted against and 35 abstained. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry rejected, …
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