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  • EGP83.5 mln loans for youths to carry out development projects in Beheira

    Date: 2016-03-03 17:26:54 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:95 - ID:4439197

    DAMANHOUR, Egypt, March 3 (MENA) - Loans of EGP 83.57 million have been given to youths as part of a national program for societal and local development in Beheira, said Governor Mohamed Sultan. The loans finance 2,631 projects that will provide ....

  • New chairman appointed for Egyptian National Railways

    Date: 2016-03-03 16:43:50 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:88 - ID:4438989

    CAIRO, March 3 (MENA) - Transport Minister Saad el Geyoushy appointed on Thursday engineer Medhat Shousha as the chairman of the Egyptian National Railways. Shousha replaced Ahmed Hamed whose performance was lauded by the minister. "He run the ....

  • USAID allocates 72 million EGP for sanitation projects in Assuit

    Date: 2016-03-03 12:51:20 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:56 - ID:4435573

    ASSUIT, Egypt, March 3 (MENA) - US Ambassador to Egypt Stephen Beecroft announced Thursday that US Agency for International Development (USAID) has allocated 72 million EGP to fund sanitation projects in the Upper Egyptian governorate of ....

  • Sokhna port reopens after weather improvement

    Date: 2016-03-03 07:17:05 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:16 - ID:4433725

    SUEZ, Egypt, March 3 (MENA) - Navigation is back to normal at Ain Sokhna Port in Suez after weather improved. Sand storms and strong winds were behind the closure decision, Spokesman for the Red Sea Ports Authority Abdel Rahim Mostafa said. He ....

  • Supply, transport ministers in talks over Nile, railway cargo transportation

    Date: 2016-03-02 11:40:13 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:36 - ID:4427981

    CAIRO, March 2 (MENA) - Transport Minister Saad el Geyoushi and Supply Minister Khaled Hanafi held talks on Wednesday to iron out hurdles blocking the transport of cargo via railway and Nile, spokesman for the ministry Ahmed Ibrahim said. The ....

  • Transport, Tourism ministers open railway museum

    Date: 2016-03-01 13:42:44 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:70 - ID:4421133

    CAIRO, March 1 (MENA) - Transport Minister Saad el Giyoushi and Tourism Minister Hesham Zaazoua opened on Tuesday the Railway Museum at Ramses railway station after its renovation. The opening ceremony was attended by Chairman of the Suez Canal ....

  • Victims of chlorine gas leakage in Alex. hit 80 in number

    Date: 2016-03-01 13:26:03 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:60 - ID:4421337

    ALEXANDRIA, March 1 (MENA) - The number of people who suffered from suffocation due to leakage of chlorine gas from a water station in eastern Alexandria hit 80 on Tuesday. Alexandria security chief Major General Nader Guinedy had received a ....

  • Minya governor, UNDP director discuss joint projects

    Date: 2016-03-01 13:14:34 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:57 - ID:4419273

    MINYA, Egypt, March 1 (MENA) – Minya Governor Tarek Nasr discussed here Tuesday with visiting United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Egypt Country Director Ignacio Artaza a number of joint projects being undertaken by the UNDP in the Upper ....

  • 15 students suffer suffocation due to chlorine gas leakage in Alex.

    Date: 2016-03-01 12:44:54 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:50 - ID:4420669

    ALEXANDRIA, March 1 (MENA) - Fifteen students in a complex of private schools in Alexandria suffered from suffocation on Tuesday due to leakage of the chlorine gas from the nearby al Seyouf water station in eastern Alexandria. The school ....

  • 12 wounded in pickup overturn in Minya

    Date: 2016-02-29 18:40:53 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:105 - ID:4415921

    MINYA, Egypt, Feb 29 (MERNA) – Twelve people were injured on Monday when a pickup overturned on the western desert road in Minya. Four of the injured were sent to Minya University Hospital. They are in critical conditions, medics said. The ....

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