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6th of October City is new member of EBRD Green Cities in Egypt EBRD President signs agreements to support greening of Cairo, Alexandria and 6th of October City 6th of October City falls under remit of Egypt’s new city planning entity, NUCA Egypt is signing up to a vision of green and sustainable cities. Under the guidance of the New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA), the country’s new city planning entity, 6th of October City joins Cairo and Alexandria as a member of the European Bank ...

FMD   Angel Gurría is  Secretary-General of the OECD. Gurría came to the OECD following a career in public service, including two ministerial posts. As Mexico’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1998 and Mexico’s Minister of Finance and Public Credit from 1998 to 2000. As OECD Secretary-General, since June 2006, he has reinforced the OECDs role as a “hub” for global dialogue and debate on economic policy issues while pursuing internal modernisation and reform. Under his leade...

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EBRD supporting Egypt’s economy and reform plans Agreements boosting the country’s green economy to be signed For the first time since her election as head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), President Odile Renaud-Basso will visit Egypt in person on 21 and 22 April for high-level meetings with the authorities and the business community. Ahead of her visit, President Renaud-Basso, said: “Egypt was one of the few countries that did not plunge into recession la...

Print About seven months into her pregnancy, Manuela passed out at her family home in a rural part of Morozán in northeast El Salvador. Her frightened relatives, who had no car, carried her in a hammock to a hospital many miles away. There, a physician asked the groggy woman, who was hemorrhaging and had lumps on her neck, for her husband. He’d migrated to the U.S., she said. The doctor called the police, assuming Manuela had cheated on her husband and induced an abortion to get rid of the ...

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A NEW group has been formed to support the planned Wharfedale Greenway, a planned route for walkers, cyclists and horse riders that will link towns along the River Wharfe. The Friends of Wharfedale Greenway aims to raise awareness of the Greenway whilst working with communities along the route to get the most out of this new asset. A Facebook page - www.facebook.com/FriendsofWharfedaleGreenway - was set up at the start of the month has already had over 300 likes. The page is being regu...

Anti-Covid-19 Fight In Public Places: Local Authorities To Intensify Sensitisation The Prime Minister, Head of Government, Joseph Dion Ngute has instructed local administrative, City, Subdivisional and Local Council Mayors to ensure the strict respect of barrier measures against the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in public places and also intensify the awareness creation in the population on the need to respect the restrictive measures and wear face masks. He gave the instructions as he...

April 5, 2021 CAIRO — In the early hours on the morning of March 27, a building consisting of a basement, a ground floor and nine floors collapsed in al-Salam neighborhood in the Gesr al-Suez district east of Cairo, killing 24 people and wounding 25 others, with many still missing. Following investigations, the Egyptian Public Prosecution said several violations caused the accident and ordered the arrest of the owner. The violations include an unlicensed garment factory on the ground flo...

Published date: 5 April 2021 20:46 UTC | Last update: 26 sec ago In a resplendent ceremony watched by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, Egypt transported 22 ancient mummies through Cairo to a new national museum on Sunday, in what was called the Golden Parade.  The 18 kings and four queens were moved from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo, where they had been exhibited since the early 1900s, to a new museum six kilometres to the south, the...