Egypt: Latest 20 news stories
- Cairo awards $639m worth of deals on third line of metro
- Egypt cuts interest rates
- Egypt to shortlist wind farm bidders in September
- Orascom wins $168m of infrastructure contracts
- Bids due for Suez power plant package
- Suez Canal revenues decrease
- Canadian firm secures power deal from Riyadh and Cairo
- Association predicts regional airlines losses of $1.5bn
- Khalda discovers oil in Egypt
- UK oil firm delivers gas from Egyptian exploration project
- Egypt to buy Apache helicopters from US
- Orascom prices New Cairo wastewater plant at $459m
- Dana Gas increases Egyptian reserves after Nile discovery
- Regional fertilisers firms' profits rise 98 per cent
- Orascom bids low for New Cairo wastewater project
- Egypt signs energy co-operation accord with Iraq
- Circle Oil makes discovery in Egypt
- Plexus wins BP Egypt gas exploration work
- Egypt signs gas exploration deal with Polish firm
- Cairo to open financial bids for wastewater scheme
Special Report: Egypt - Struggling with subsidies
Over the past three years, the aggressive economic reforms of Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif's government have transformed the Egyptian economy. But they have also upset the political apple cart.A year of opportunity: Egypt
Cairo is promising continued and impressive economic growth in 2008. But as it presses ahead with its economic reform programme, it risks leaving its most vulnerable citizens by the wayside. If it is to put an end to growing worker discontent, it must fulfil its promises of greater socio-economic inclusion.
Egypt country profile
In Egypt, discussing the president's health in public is a criminal offence. The editors of four Egyptian newspapers discovered how true this can be in September when a Cairo court sentenced each of them to a one-year prison sentence and a fine of E£ 20,000 ($3,637).Commentary
- Gulf markets are set for a fall
- Downturn offers an opportunity in the Gulf
- Growing Egyptian deficit is necessary
- Cairo will have to rethink spending
- Region failing to boost gas supplies
- Reforms boost performance in Egypt
- Gulf Gas consumers must pay more
- Cairo needs to find economic balance
- Global financial crisis highlights weak markets
- Cairo has to win back private sector confidence
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