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WHO chief starts two-day visit to Egypt
Date: 2019-08-21 23:59:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:8072037
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom started on Wednesday a two-day visit to Egypt. He was welcomed at Cairo international airport by Health Minister Hala Zayed. Zayed praised the WHO efforts to eradicate ....
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Bloomberg: Economic reforms turns Egypt into Middle East’s fastest-growing economy
Date: 2019-08-21 23:57:48 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:6 - ID:8072036
Egypt’s recovery has turned it into the Middle East’s fastest-growing economy following three years of reforms enacted to secure a $12 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, Bloomberg said in a report Wednesday. The Egyptian pound’s ....
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Hamdok sworn in as Sudan's new prime minister
Date: 2019-08-21 20:56:10 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:8071994
Economist Abdalla Hamdok was sworn in as Sudan’s prime minister in the country’s transitional government on Wednesday. Ten members of Sudan’s new sovereign council, the country’s ruling body per a three-year transition agreement, were sworn in ....
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Sisi endorses law regulating activities of NGOs
Date: 2019-08-21 20:55:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:8071992
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi endorsed Wednesday a law governing the activities of NGOs. The House of Representatives had previously passed it. The law applies on the activities of NGOs, societies, unions, and regional and international ....
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Top prosecutor highlights Egypt's efforts in countering organized crime
Date: 2019-08-21 20:22:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:8071889
Prosecutor General Nabil Ahmed Sadeq said on Wednesday that Egypt has taken the lead at the Arab and African levels in countering transnational organized crime. In press statements, Sadeq stressed that Egypt had signed a number of agreements with ....
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Nile water committee reviews trilateral negotiations on Ethiopia's GERD
Date: 2019-08-21 16:52:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:8071793
The Supreme Committee for Nile Water (SCNW) convened Wednesday under Prime Minster Moustafa Madbouli. The meeting was attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Ati, as well as ....
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Sisi orders successful implementation of health insurance system
Date: 2019-08-21 16:46:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:8071783
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has called for implementing the health insurance system precisely and successfully with taking into consideration technical, human and medical sides to ensure the good quality of medical services. This came during a ....
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Twitter shuts Chinese accounts targeting Hong Kong protests
Date: 2019-08-20 10:00:06 GMT - USA - International - SN:8 - ID:8069714
Twitter said Monday it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were part of a Chinese government influence campaign targeting the protest movement in Hong Kong. The company also said it will ban ads from state-backed media ....
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Plakiotakis: No formal request by Iranian tanker to dock in Kalamata
Date: 2019-08-20 09:54:34 GMT - Greece - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:8069704
No “formal request” has been made so far to Greek authorities by the Iranian tanker wanted by US authorities to dock at the port of Kalamata, Shipping Minister Yiannis Plakiotakis said on Tuesday. The Grace 1, renamed the Adrian Darya 1, was ....
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Five Palestinian injured by Israeli forces in W.Bank, Al Quds
Date: 2019-08-20 09:52:02 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:8069699
Five Palestinians were injured by Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday when hundreds of settlers stormed the vicinity of Joseph's Tomb near in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The settlers repeatedly stormed Joseph's Tomb and performed ....
