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Been to Hurghada and the journey there and back was very interesting, the desert was still flooded in parts due to the recent storms, the roads undermined in places. It was quite obvious in parts...
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Good to hear the road is passable.....I may be using it myself shortly.
Sounds as if the the concrete flood barriers in the gullies either side have done their job....well...at least better than...
its almost five years now that Egypt made an initial application to the I.M.F. for a loan, this was when Mubarak first announced the property tax and a freeze on civil service pay. Such new laws were...
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How are they going to control inflation, price rises, and keep poverty from rising. No one has said, or is it a secret.
I think most people accept that rises in prices and an increase in poverty...
Egypt to raise fuel prices by up to 47 percent at midnight
Mada Masr
November 3, 2016
Egypt will raise fuel prices for the second time since the start of a fiscal reform program in 2014, in an...
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The judiciary is really our only bastion against any excesses of the legislature and the intemperate nonsense we've seen in the tabloids over the last day or so should have been slapped down much...
The new Mistral helicopter ‘carriers’ bought from France for about $US1 billion, and now on maneuvers, come with a few catches including no helicopters. They were available at short notice to Egypt...
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Even the UK got a very small contract to supply bullets. Apparently an early Boris achievement in his ‘make Britain great again’ trade agenda. Good on him – shows newly acquired attention to detail –...
Man sets himself on fire in protest at the state of the Egyptian economy.
The New Arab reported the man, said to be 30-year-old taxi driver Ashraf Mohammed Shaheen, started criticising the country’s...
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Awful and sad, but unlike the Tunisian example, where there was a direct link to government abuse and that man’s poverty, this might be different. Taxi drivers in Alex are not always the poorest of...
Its exam time again and the dirty, exploitative west has issued its report card (The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI)) on all the brave, poor and oppressed countries and found them wanting. :urm:...
Inside the neon palace that is Koshary Abou Tarek in downtown Cairo, the air smells of fried onions. Plates are heaped high with koshary, a traditional dish containing rice, macaroni and lentils...
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I dont know how people can afford decent food anymore, just rice, favor beans (Methane producing) and flat bread. Some diet, and a good recipe for future problems in health.
Unlike the amounts of...
The government has a new big initiative – encouraging Egyptians to speak English. It hasn't started well.
Unfortunately the title/slogan of the government campaign is grammatically/semantically...
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The Ministry of Education web site, well parts of it, can only be accessed if you have the correct password and yes they are pushing the speaking and reading of English. Not that it will do any good...
A member of the Egyptian parliament has defended FMG saying that it was necessary because Egyptian men were sexually weak. Well I suppose he should know.
His latest pronouncement is that all female...
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Doesn't surprise me at all that the majority of younger Egyptians were in favour of FMG. Until there is a programme of sexual education I can't see it changing.
CAIRO—It has been a bad week for pounds. The Egyptian pound hit a record low against the dollar on the black market Wednesday after the North African country’s central bank failed to devalue the...
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Well if I owned Facebook or Microsoft one could be less me me me until then.....
As there are 7 people working with me its a little less me.
Here is a recent think tank article on the current state of play on economic reform/IMF in Egypt.
Its written by the highly rated Middle East Institute. The, US based, Institute is long established,...
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Patience, whey hay!. I am sure there is plenty of that, in Luxor they have been patiently waiting for tourists for 5 years and are still patiently waiting. Wonder when the penny will drop.
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