Month: March 2025

 H.E. Dr. Rania A. Al-Mashat, Minister of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation, participated in a meeting of the Economic Committee of the House of Representatives, chaired by MP Mohamed Suleiman. The meeting was attended by the committee's deputy chairs, MP Mohamed Abdel Hamid, MP Kamal El-Din El-Shafei, and MP Tarek Hassan Ammar, the committee's secretary, and the members of the committee, to discuss the implementation of the 2023/2024 economic […]

 People in some of the most populated parts of Mayom County can now tune in to Radio Miraya, a broadcaster operated by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), to stay reliably informed. Local authorities and residents alike hope that the newly installed transmitter will also aid efforts to prevent persistent cattle raiding and promote peace in the area. “Women here have been rather isolated and with little say […]

 On March 11, 2025 the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Evgeny Shestakov, received copies of Credentials of the аmbassadors of Burkina Faso and Kenya.  During the meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Burkina Faso to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus concurrently, Aristide Rapugdondba Ludovic Tapsoba, issues of enhancing cooperation at the interregional level and between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs […]

 #ForAllWomenAndGirls is a rallying call for action on the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Aneth Gerena Isaya, a leading advocate for the economic empowerment of women with disabilities in Tanzania, talks about the critical need for disability inclusion and how she is driving efforts to make it a reality. As the Executive Director of The Joy of Deaf Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania (FUWAVITA)—an organization she founded […]

 Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received a phone call from the Prime Minister of Nepal, KP Sharma Oli. The Spokesman for the Presidency, Ambassador Mohamed El-Shennawy, said President El-Sisi stressed during the call the need to continue strengthening relations between the two countries across fields, particularly in the economic and investment sectors. The prime minister of Nepal expressed his appreciation for Egypt's support for his country in various fields and […]

 The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) (www.ITFC-idb.org), the trade finance arm of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, announced that two of its trade finance deals have been honored in the prestigious Islamic Finance News (IFN) Deal of the Year Awards for 2024. In Egypt, the ITFC record-breaking US$604 million syndicated financing for the Arab Republic of Egypt represented by Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) was recognized as the Sovereign […]

 On March 11, 2025 the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Sergei Terentiev, met with the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt for European Affairs, Wael Hamed. The parties outlined steps to intensify contacts at various levels, ties between specialized authorities in a wide range of areas of economic cooperation. Special attention was paid to the […]

 The warning over essential supplies at North Darfur’s Zamzam camp comes after families and children have endured seven months of living in famine conditions, with crippling food shortages and a lack of basic services. Heavy shelling and heightened violence in recent weeks have put children at increased risk and further complicated efforts to deliver humanitarian assistance, with access to the camp now nearly impossible, the aid agency said. Time is running out […]

 The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) hails the setting up of the national preventive mechanisms (NPMs) in Benin, Madagascar, Nigeria, and South Africa as a significant step in advancing and fulfilling their obligations under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT). “The OPCAT’s torture prevention architecture is built on the partnership between the SPT, the international body designated by the treaty, and the NPMs, our national counterparts. These national partners […]