Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar inspected on Sunday the project to establish Manfalut Model Hospital in Assiut at a construction cost of EGP 266m.
This comes within the framework of a series of field tours conducted by the (...)
Shadi Samir, Chairperson of Select International, said that the group's contracts exceeded EGP 2bn in 2021, and that the group is keen to participate in the implementation of national projects.
Select International works in several sectors, most (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has followed up on the land reclamation projects carried out by the Egyptian Countryside Development Company.
This came during a Tuesday meeting attended by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly; Minister of Water (...)
Ehab Abdel Hamid — the Director of the Medium, Small, and Micro Enterprise Development Agency (MSMEDA) in Assiut — said that the agency has financed 4,722 small and micro projects worth EGP 145m in villages covered by the Decent Life Presidential (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi discussed, in a meetingon Monday, the position of the national network of roads across the country, as well as the land reclamation project in North and Central Sinai.
The meeting was attended by President (...)
The Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Agency has injected EGP 101m in financing into small and micro projects in Assiut governorate, which created more than 5,700 job opportunities during the first seven months of 2021.
Rumaih Abdel (...)
As the winter season starts, seasonal fruits fill the local markets, with people eagerly waiting for them. Pomegranate comes at the top of these fruits.
The rounded-shape fruit is considered one of the Egyptians' favourites, especially due to its (...)
As winter dawns, October marks the start of the dates harvesting season, which represents more than just the favourite fruit for owners of date palm trees.
At one of the furthest cities from Cairo, citizens of Manfalut in Assiut governorate rely on (...)
A passenger train derailed on a railway track near Badrashin station close to Giza, injuring 58 commuters, but no fatalities were reported, according to the Ministry of Health.
The Ministry of Transport said that the accident took place when three (...)
Egypt's prosecutor-general Nabil Sadek referred to criminal court on Wednesday defendants charged with negligence leading to the deadly train collision that took place in August near Alexandria, leaving 44 people dead and 236 injured.
The defendants (...)
Egypt's Minister of Transport Hesham Arafat visited on Saturday a control tower where a new electronic signal system was installed at Berket El-Saba train station in the province of Menoufiya north of Cairo.
The new signal system, which became (...)
Egypt's Minister of Transport Hesham Arafat visited on Saturday a control tower where a new electronic signal system was installed at Berket El-Saba train station in the province of Menoufiya north of Cairo.
The new signal system, which became (...)
A train collision in Alexandria has left on Friday at least 41 dead and 179 injured, a statement from the Egyptian health ministry read.
One of the trains was travelling from Cairo, and the other from Port Said.
The transport ministry said in an (...)
Alexandria - At least Thirty-one people were killed and 90 others injured in a train collision in Alexandria on Friday, a statement by the health ministry read.
The final number of casualties had not yet been determined, a source in the health (...)
A train collision near Alexandria on Friday left at least 41 dead and 179 injured, a statement from the health ministry read.
One of the trains was travelling from Cairo to Alexandria, and the other from Port Said to Alexandria.
The transport (...)
The Assiut security directorate's Criminal Investigation Department raided three gun-manufacturing workshops in the Bani Rafae village in Assiut governorate, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Tuesday.
The department had been (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Transportation has completed the upgrading of 11 railway stations, with an investment cost worth EGP 500 million, according Minister Ibrahim El-Demeiry.
This comes within the framework of the ministry's strategy to upgrade the (...)
Ibrahim El-Demeiry, who accepted the post of minister of transportation on Monday, faces massive challenges in the six months ahead, given the frequency of road and maritime accidents in Egypt.
The Arab world's most populous country has been the (...)
In the case of the collision between a train and a bus in Assiut last year, the bloc worker, Hussein Abdel Rahman, and the man responsible for managing the crossing, Sayed Abdou, were sentenced to 10 years in prison and a fine of LE100,000 by the (...)
SHORTLY after taking office in Ahmed Nazif's government in January 2006, former minister of transport Mohamed Mansour had to deal with a horrific rail crash that happened in Qalioub, north of Cairo, claiming 44 lives.
At the time, Mansour, a (...)
Nineteen Central Security personnel were killed and other 120 were injured on Monday after a Cairo-bound train coming from Assiut derailed at the Badrashin train station in Giza, the Transportation Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
The (...)
The following were the top 20 news events Egypt witnessed in 2012 as selected by Amwal Al Ghad (in chronological order):
1- Egypt's Islamists Win 75% of Parliament Seats:
On January 21st, Final results showed that Islamist parties won nearly (...)
During the last week trading which started with Assiut train-bus fatal accident, the Egyptian Exchange has posted losses of around EGP 14.5 billion as the capital market has hit EGP 373.199 billion at the end of last week.
Egyptian Exchange (...)
Promise Insurance Brokerage Company called on insurance companies to donate to the families of the children killed in an accident in Assiut.
About 51 young children were killed last Saturday when a train collided with their bus on a railway crossing (...)
By Muhammad Mansour
Benefiting from the Italian expertise in restructuring Egypt's railway system was top of the agenda in a meeting on Tuesday held between the minister of industry and foreign trade, Hatem Salah, and a delegation of the (...)