Qaddafi health minister seeks aid in Egypt
CAIRO: Moammar Qaddafi’s health minister was in Egypt on Wednesday to ask officials for medical supplies to meet shortages in Libya, the official MENA news agency said. Mohamed Hijazi arrived…
56 pct of Egyptians believe the country is on the right track, says official poll
By Tamim Elyan CAIRO: Fifty-six percent of Egyptians surveyed in an official poll believe the country is going in the right direction, according to the Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC)…
Egypt’s Brotherhood faces sterner critics, rifts
By Dina Zayed/Reuters CAIRO: In the weeks after Hosni Mubarak was ousted, Egyptian television channels reveled in their new freedoms by giving airtime to the formerly banned Muslim Brotherhood, offering them…
Initiative invites Egyptians to write new constitution
By Mai Shams El-Din CAIRO: Egyptians want to write their own constitution, with their own hands if they could. It’s a wish many have, unrealistic as it may seem, but one…
Egypt subsidies hinder World Bank’s social safety net programs
CAIRO: The World Bank’s Social Safety Net (SSN) programs, which are aimed at sheltering the poor from shocks and decreasing chronic poverty, have not targeted Egypt in the last decade…
Transfers ready but full-fledged mobile banking to take longer in Egypt
CAIRO: Egypt’s mobile phone subscriptions topped 74 million in April, an increase of 27 percent from the previous year. The country’s banked population, however, is not nearly as large, coming…
HSBC Egypt is here to ‘stay and grow,’ says CEO
HSBC Egypt is moving forward with expansion plans for next year, opening up more branches and increasing the size of its staff, according to the new CEO.
Goose bumps, whoppers and polliwogs
By Philip Whitfield Cairo: Through the ages revolutionaries have pondered if lying is acceptable. What would your Mum say to the murderer banging on the door yelling: Is your son home?…
Reforming Arab police
CASABLANCA, Morocco: In much of the Arab world, police are commonly regarded as agents of repression. Hopes for democracy in countries like Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere require that police take…
Too Much Information
By Gareth Evans CANBERRA: As a British court weighs whether Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden, and American prosecutors weigh the criminal charges they will file against Private Bradley Manning,…
