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The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, expressed her regret and ‘condemnation for her inability to conduct a field visit to the Gaza Strip’ after Israel rejected her visit. While Albanese is on a regional tour that includes Jordan and Egypt, the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, welcomed her at the General Secretariat headquarters on...

The Eastern Company, Egypt’s leading local tobacco company, has seen remarkable success over the years, with its revenues surging by 54 percent in the second quarter of the fiscal year 2023/2024.  During the first two quarters of the financial year 2023/2024, the Eastern Company achieved revenues of EGP 7.9 billion (USD 163.8 million) from 1 July to 31 December 2023. The total profit for...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has drafted a comprehensive strategy to enhance Egypt’s macroeconomic stability and promote private sector growth in Egypt.  The plan outlines four elements, which are monetary and fiscal policy tightening, flexible exchange rate, targeted budget support for households, and balancing the roles of the public and private sectors. In December 2022, the IMF approved a 46-month arrangement fund to Egypt...

The United States vetoed Palestine’s draft resolution to have full membership in the United Nations (UN), during the UN Security Council on 18 April. Twelve members voted in favor, two (the United Kingdom and Switzerland) abstained, and the United States voted against Palestine becoming a UN member state, which would entail participating in decision-making and voting powers in the General Assembly for resolutions. The...

Al Ahly women’s volleyball team defeated El Shams 3-0 on 13 April, winning the Egyptian Cup for the 36th time and maintaining its position as the team with the most titles in the Women’s Volleyball Egyptian Cup. Al Ahly advanced to the cup final after defeating Wadi Degla with a score of 3-0, while El Shams reached the final after defeating Zamalek 3-2. The...

Egypt’s low-income housing program offers affordable residential units to financially challenged Egyptians, and the project is expanding in 2024, opening up in 14 more cities in Egypt. Founded in 2018, the Social Housing and Mortgage Finance Fund (SHMFF), is a governmental entity of the Ministry of Housing, Utilities & Urban Communities (MHUC), which provides affordable residential for low and middle-income Egyptians, with a variety...

  For the third year in a row, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) is coming to Cairo for its fourth season, where Al Ahly Basketball Club (Ahly B.C) will defend its 2023 championship title. BAL is the men’s basketball league in Africa, founded in 2019 by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). Egypt has claimed two titles in the...

  The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in April 2024 with the Dutch Port of Rotterdam, outlining plans to establish a route for transporting green fuel produced in the zone to European markets. The MoU entails collaboration on the creation of a green bunkering corridor, connecting Singapore to Rotterdam via the Suez Canal. This initiative marks the first-ever...

GoLand 2023.3 comes with support for data flow analysis (DFA). In this post, we’ll introduce the feature, explain how it works, and show some real-world examples of how DFA can detect bugs on the fly! Thanks to the CLion team for helping us by porting their powerful DFA engine. For now, the GoLand engine only implem...

Long before Gmail became smart enough to finish your sentences, Google’s now-ubiquitous email service was buttering up the public for a fate that defined the internet age: if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.When Gmail was announced on April 1, 2004, its lofty promises and the timing of its rel...

Six months after the onset of hostilities in Gaza, a new round of negotiations between the two warring parties, Israel and Hamas, took place on Sunday, 31 March in Cairo, with the aim of reaching a ceasefire and exchanging hostages.  A security source told Al Qahera News that the joint efforts and talks are meant to make headway in negotiation talks. Israeli Public Broadcasting...

  The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the first and second reviews of Egypt’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) on 29 March and augmented the arrangement, adding USD 5 billion (EGP 236.9 billion) to the original USD 3 billion (EGP 142.2 billion) plan, which allows Egypt to immediately withdraw around USD 820 million (EGP 38.9 billion) According to a press release...

Vancouver's eccentric Duck Lady, Laura-Kay Prophet, was known for bringing smiles to anyone she met and distributing food and cash to those in need on the city's streets.

Israel announced on 22 March the seizure of eight square kilometers (1,977 acres) of land in West Bank’s Jordan Valley region. Activists call this the largest action of its kind in decades, indicating a significant objective in Israel’s plans for settlement expansion in the occupied territories. The Israel Broadcasting Authority disclosed that the area is, “for the construction of hundreds of residential units, in...

When Abdelsalam Mohamed, a 29-year-old Egyptian woman, tried to renew her home internet package to continue working, she noticed that her 600 Gigabytes package that cost her EGP 550 (USD 11.83) per month is now costing around EGP 725 (USD 15.59). “I can not pay that much for internet, so I had to change my package to 300 Gigabytes per month for EGP 382...

Khaled and Sherine Diab’s comedic Ramadan TV series, Ashghal Shaqa, (Apartment Chronicles,) garnered so many views and attention on social media. https://twitter.com/nageebss/status/1768337565877166303 The series topped the list of most-watched series on Shahid, among 18 series, in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and some European countries. With the hashtag #Ashghal_Shaqa circulating on X, formerly known as Twitter, many fans are gushing over the series and expressing their...

Taraweeh, the plural word of ‘Tarweeha,’ which means ‘rest’ in Arabic, is the propitious ritual of the holy month of Ramadan, where Muslims gather to stand side by side and pray together. Mosques in Cairo during Ramadan become crowded after the Isha prayer, as people follow the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammed and perform Taraweeh prayer. Mosques play an important role in creating a...

Muslims in Egypt fast for 14 hours a day during the holy month of Ramadan, only to feel tired and sleepy after Iftar. Sometimes people tend to eat way more than needed during Ramadan, and some might experience fatigue, sleepiness, and even headaches after Iftar. A study, with 16,031 participants, done by the International Headache Society on Postprandial fasting-related headaches during Ramadan in Saudi...

Egyptian education company and student-recruitment platform, Educatly, organized an initiative among its employees and connections to raise donations and help Palestinian students in Egypt amidst the war in Gaza. “When the war broke out in Gaza on 7 October 2023, we wanted to help somehow but did not know how to. Mohmmed El Sonbaty, the company’s CEO, with the help of a friend, managed...

  Egypt’s Public Prosecution launched an investigation into the fire that erupted at Al-Ahram studio on 16 March. The fire broke out after the filming of a Ramadan TV show ended, and quickly spread through the Al-Ahram studio, injuring nine people and reaching surrounding buildings that had to be evacuated to prevent further damage and injury. According to a statement by Egypt’s Public Prosecution,...

In March 2024, almost two billion Muslims take to fasting – one of the five pillars of Islam – during the Holy Month. Various people follow the dietary approach of intermittent fasting, and now Muslims are following the same diet, but for Ramadan. Intermittent fasting means having a controlled schedule where a person abstains from food and drink for a number of hours. Nonetheless,...

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