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Fri, 31 Dec 2021 08:59:09 GMT
Egypt: In Egypt, Lending Apps Boost Cash-Strapped Women Business Owners
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] An age-old savings system in Egypt is going digital - helping to plug a gap in funding for women-led businesses

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 06:41:45 GMT
Tunisia: Hammamet to Host 2nd African Beach Games in 2023
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) Mustapha Berraf held Thursday a video conference meeting with members of ANOCA's executive committee to discuss the 2022 African You...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 06:18:38 GMT
Algeria: President Tebboune Installs Members of High Council of Judiciary
[Algerie Presse Service] Algiers -- President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, installed on Thursday, members of the Council of Judiciary (CSM), in accordance with Article 180 of the Constitution, said the Presidency of the Republic in a statem...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 09:35:23 GMT
Egypt: Head of Suez Canal Authority Appoints New Board of Directors
[Egypt Online] Head of Egypt's Suez Canal Authority Osama Rabie issued a number of decisions on forming the authority's new board of directors of 2022.

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 09:35:20 GMT
Egypt: Egypt Reports 871 New Coronavirus Cases, 32 Deaths
[Egypt Online] The Health Ministry said Thursday night that 871 new coronavirus infections were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases reported in Egypt since the beginning of the outbreak to 384,728.

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:44:21 GMT
Tunisia: Kaïs Saïed Vows to Review Judicial System
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The President of the Republic Kaïs Saïed, on Thursday, promised a review of the judicial system, citing, in this regard, the rights granted to members of the Supreme Judicial Council and the administrative or...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:34:30 GMT
Tunisia/Sierra Leone: AFCON 2021 - Tunisia to Play Sierra Leone At Warmup Game
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Tunisia's national soccer team will play Sierra Leone's at a warmup game next January 7, ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations scheduled for January 9- February 6 in Cameroon.

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:34:28 GMT
Tunisia: Cabinet Meeting Approves Draft Presidential Decree On Jurisdiction of Court Clerks
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Cabinet meeting, on Thursday, approved a presidential decree amending and supplementing the government decree No. 2018-420 of May 7, 2018, on the jurisdiction of court clerks and the conditions of attributi...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:34:26 GMT
Tunisia: November 2021 One of Driest Months With 50 Percent Rainfall Deficit
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- November 2021 saw a relative increase in temperatures. The general average temperature (24 main stations) was slightly higher than the reference average for the same stations (1981-2010), with a difference of (...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:34:24 GMT
Tunisia: Al-Joumhouri Refuses Use of State Resources for Political Purposes
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Al-Joumhouri party said it categorically reject the use of state resources and public property to implement the "political project of the President of the Republic.

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:34:23 GMT
Tunisia: Fire in M'saken Warehouse - Expert Team Mobilised to Measure Concentration of Toxic Gases -Ministry
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Ministry of the Environment said Thursday a team of experts went to the scene of the fire that broke out Wednesday in a warehouse containing 1950 tons of Italian waste in the region of Moureddine, M'saken, ...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:34:20 GMT
Tunisia: Citizens Against Coup - 'Hunger Strike Brings Democratic Forces Closer'
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Representatives of the "Citizens against Coup" initiative said their hunger strike, which started on December 23, has brought the different national political forces closer.

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:34:16 GMT
Tunisia: BCT Urges Continued Co-Ordination to Avoid Monetary Financing of Budget Deficit
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Executive Board of the Central Bank of Tunisia stressed at its meeting Thursday the need to continue co-ordination between financial and monetary policies to avoid monetary financing of the budget deficit, ...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:05:39 GMT
Egypt: PM Reviews Efforts Related to Modern Irrigation, Canal Lining
[Egypt Online] Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli emphasized the importance of the great efforts made by the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, especially as regards upgrading irrigation systems for agricultural land as well as lining canals an...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:05:39 GMT
Egypt: Egypt Bourse Ends Year of 2021 With Gains Exceeding Egp 115 Billion
[Egypt Online] Egypt bourse ended the year of 2021 with total gains exceeding EGP 115 billion to hit EGP 765.5 billion. During all year round transactions EGX 30 benchmark index spiked 10.1 % to stand at 11,949.18 points.

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:05:36 GMT
Egypt: Egypt Received 347,460 Doses of Astrazeneca Covid-19 Vaccine
[Egypt Online] Acting Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar confirmed that Egypt received on Thursday 30/12/2021 347,460 doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine at Cairo International Airport.

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:05:33 GMT
Egypt: PM Heads 1st Meeting of Coordinating Council for Monetary and Financial Policies
[Egypt Online] Prime Minister Dr Mostafa Madbouly chaired the first meeting of the Coordinating Council for Monetary and Financial Policies, which was formed upon Republican Decree No. 584 of 2021, to establish a mechanism for coordination between th...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:01:39 GMT
Tunisia: Omicron Infections Now Account for More Than 30 Percent of Cases Subject to Genome Sequencing At Pasteur Institute
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Omicron infections now account for 30 to 40% of cases undergoing genome sequencing at the Tunis Pasteur Institute, said director of the Institute and member of the Scientific Committee to Combat Coronavirus Hec...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 06:20:45 GMT
Morocco: Magnitude-4 Quake Hits Driouch Province
[MAP] Rabat -- A quake of magnitude 4.0 on the Richter scale was recorded Thursday in the province of Driouch, said the National Institute of Geophysics (ING).

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 06:19:55 GMT
Morocco: No Extension of School Vacations, Students Will Return to Their Classes Next Monday (Govt. Spokesman)
[MAP] Rabat -- Minister Delegate in charge of Relations with Parliament, Government Spokesman, Mustapha Baitas, said Thursday in Rabat that classes will resume next Monday, denying rumors of an alleged extension of school vacations because of the epi...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 06:17:50 GMT
Tunisia: Nabeul - Programme to Select and Finance 12 Innovative Projects
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) of Cap Bon has launched, in cooperation with the National Agency for the Promotion of Scientific Research (ANPR), a programme to select 12 innovative project ideas tha...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 06:16:49 GMT
Tunisia: 'Green Tunisia' Urges Air Analysis After Fire in M'saken Warehouse
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Network "Green Tunisia", on Thursday, called on the Ministry of Environment to quickly proceed with the analysis of air in the warehouse containing Italian waste, located in Mourredine, M'saken delegation (...

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 06:16:15 GMT
Egypt: New Delta Project
[Egypt Online] The New Delta Project is one of the mega projects in the agricultural field, where it will be established on nearly one million feddans in the western northern coast.

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:28:04 GMT
Algeria: President Tebboune Signs Finance Law 2022
[Algerie Presse Service] Algiers -- President of the Republic, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, minister of the National Defense Abdelmadjid Tebboune signed on Thursday, in Algiers, the finance law 2022.

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 12:05:51 GMT
Egypt: Egypt, Russia, Discuss Aspects of Economic Cooperation
[Egypt Online] Egyptian Ambassador in Moscow Nazih al Najari conferred with Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Vasiliy Osmakov on aspects of economic cooperation in the different domains.

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 12:05:48 GMT
Egypt: Sisi Reconstitutes National Council for Human Rights
[Egypt Online] President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has issued Decree No. 616 of 2021 reconstituting the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) for the next four years.

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 12:05:46 GMT
Egypt: Egypt Achieved Strong Foreign Trade, Sustainable Partnerships
[Egypt Online] A book compiled by the cabinet asserted that Egypt's foreign trade achieved major accomplishments due to strong sustainable partnership with different economic groupings around the world.

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 12:05:43 GMT
Egypt: Armed Forces Greet Sisi On New Year
[Egypt Online] The Armed Forces greeted President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Copts and the whole Egyptian people on the occasion of New Year 2022.

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 12:05:40 GMT
Egypt: IDSC - Adolescents, Youth Majority of Social Media Users
[Egypt Online] Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) asserted that the social media has negative and positive impacts, adding that the adolescents and the youth are the majority of the users of social media and the most harmed by it.

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 12:05:38 GMT
Egypt: National Security Alert Raised Ahead of New Year
[Egypt Online] Minister of Interior Mahmoud Tawfiq reviewed Wednesday during a meeting with some of his assistants and top security officials the ministry's strategy for maintaining nationwide security, as Christmas and New Year's festivities are exp...



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