Parliament’s Human Rights to set up CD on prisons inspection visits to respond to torture allegation 

The committee will further release detailed report on these visits that started in mid September

Daily News Egypt

Egypt first Arab country to implement conditional monetary support programs: CAPMAS

The number of beneficiary families of Takaful and Karama programs since March 2015 to May 2017 is estimated at 1.7 million

Reem Hosam El-din

BNP Paribas arranges €98.5m loan to EETC

Loan will be used to finance the construction of the Samannoud and Abu Al Matamir transformer substations

Daily News Egypt

IFC, Switzerland sign agreement to expand financing women across MENA

Women own over 300,000 SMEs in MENA, which is about a third of SMEs of the region, says IFC

Shaimaa Al-Aees

The government is working to increase growth rates to reduce poverty

We are working to achieve economic growth of not less than 5% during the current fiscal year: El Garhy

Mohamed Ayyad

21.4% decline in Nile Pharma’s profits in Q1 of 2017

The company achieved profits of EGP 5.5m between January and March

Daily News Egypt

Nasr to the AmCham in New York: Egypt made great progress in implementing its reform plan

The world's largest $600bn international investment institution hails efforts to improve the business environment and plans to inject new investments into Egypt

Daily News Egypt

2.2 million citizens received EGP 7.8bn worth of micro loans until the end of September: Zulfikar

MSMEs Development Agency injected EGP 1.5bn of micro loans in the first 8 months of the year: Gamea

Hossam Mounir