Industry & Trade Sisi orders government to present 5-year achievements report in October Aya Anwar Aug 30, 2026 0 President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday directed the government to prepare a comprehensive report on the state’s…
Featured Egypt’s PM reviews strategic commodity reserves, subsidy reform ahead of Eid Al-Adha Aya Anwar May 12, 2026 0 Egypt’s Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly met on Monday with Sherif Farouk, Minister of Supply and Internal Trade,…
Industry & Trade Egypt kicks off summer fertiliser season with full switch to digital payments Aya Anwar May 10, 2026 0 Egypt's Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation has launched fertilizer distribution for the 2026 summer…
Featured Egypt denies summer fertiliser shortage, says stocks exceed 6 million sacks Aya Anwar Apr 30, 2026 0 Egypt on Thursday denied reports of a summer fertiliser shortage, saying supplies are sufficient and distribution…
Commodities Egypt moves to secure strategic stocks, enhance subsidy governance Aya Anwar Apr 20, 2026 0 Egypt is strengthening strategic stocks of essential goods to ensure stable supply for several months while…
Commodities Egypt to issue draft law regulating commodity exchange to stabilise markets Aya Anwar Apr 14, 2026 0 Egypt is accelerating plans to activate its commodity exchange in an effort to stabilise domestic prices and…
Commodities URGENT: Egypt to keep subsidised bread price unchanged despite fuel increase Aya Anwar Mar 10, 2026 0 Egypt will keep the price of its subsidised baladi bread fixed at 20 piastres per loaf despite the government’s…
Commodities Egypt starts EGP 400 ration card grant on 17 Feb Aya Anwar Feb 17, 2026 0 Egypt will begin disbursing an additional 400 Egyptian pounds monthly grant to eligible ration card holders from…
Commodities Egypt to pilot cash subsidy scheme, raise wheat procurement price – PM Aya Anwar Sep 17, 2025 0 Egypt is preparing to shift from in-kind subsidies to cash transfers, Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly said during…
Featured Egypt disburses EGP 4b under Takaful and Karama in Sept Aya Anwar Sep 15, 2025 0 Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer programme has paid out more than 4 billion Egyptian pounds in September to…
Egypt News Egypt spends EGP642b on social support – FinMin Nada Ali Aug 31, 2025 0 Egypt allocated EGP642 billion to subsidies, grants, and social benefits for the most vulnerable citizens in the…
Commodities Egypt rolls out nationwide initiative to cut food prices Aya Anwar Aug 5, 2025 0 Egypt launched a nationwide price-reduction initiative on Tuesday, with the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade…
Egypt News Egypt to pay EGP5b to exporters soon Nada Ali Jul 30, 2025 0 Egypt’s Finance Ministry will disburse around EGP 5 billion to approximately 2,000 exporting companies on August 7.
Featured Musk’s party hint drags down Tesla shares Nada Ali Jul 7, 2025 0 Tesla shares fell by almost 7 per cent in premarket trading on Monday following CEO Elon Musk's announcement of…
Featured Rate cut eases pressure on Russian budget – Manturov Aya El Sayed Jun 17, 2025 0 Lowering Russia’s key interest rate by one percentage point could save the federal budget around 260 billion rubles…
Industry & Trade Japan PM vows support over US tariffs Nada Ali May 27, 2025 0 Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba acknowledged the increasing influence of US tariffs on Tuesday and promised…
Featured Spain announces €150m subsidies to promote AI integration Aya El Sayed Jan 20, 2025 0 Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on Monday that the government will allocate an additional €150…
Featured Spain’s green hydrogen sector hindered by subsidy delays Aya El Sayed Jun 26, 2024 0 Spain possesses ideal conditions to lead the global green hydrogen sector, Jorge Palomar, global hydrogen…
Energy Malaysia to increase diesel fuel prices by 50% on Monday Aya Anwar Jun 9, 2024 0 Diesel fuel prices across much of Malaysia are poised to surge by approximately 50 per cent come Monday, marking a…
Featured Egypt hikes natural gas prices for homes by 34% in IMF-backed scheme Mahmoud Shaaban Jul 6, 2019 0 Egypt said on Friday it was raising the price of natural gas for home and commercial use by 20-34 percent, the…
Featured Supply Ministry prepares list of recipients discarded from in-kind subsidies Amwal Al Ghad English Mar 6, 2019 0 Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade started this month to prepare a list of citizens to be discarded from the…
Tech/AI Electricity prices to increase to cover subsidy shortage: Shaker Amwal Al Ghad English Mar 3, 2019 0 The government has to support the domestic consumption of electricity with subsidies up to 46.7 billion Egyptian…
Featured Egypt to partially cut natural gas subsidies in August Amwal Al Ghad English Jul 22, 2018 0 The Egyptian Cabinet decided on Saturday to partially cut subsidies on natural gas for domestic and commercial…
Industry & Trade Egypt to increase fuel prices by 35-45% in Q1 of FY2018/19 Yomna Yasser Apr 12, 2018 0 Fuel prices in Egypt are expected to rise between 35 percent and 45 percent in the first quarter of financial year…
Financial Institutions Egypt’s budget deficit decreases 2% in Q1-FY2017/18 Yomna Yasser Dec 7, 2017 0 Egypt's budget deficit decreased by two percent of GDP during the first quarter of financial year 2017/2018, the…
Industry & Trade Egypt not cutting fuel subsidies before next July Yomna Yasser Nov 12, 2017 0 Egypt is not considering an increase in fuel prices before 30 June 2018, at the end of the current fiscal year,…
Industry & Trade Egypt’s Oil Minister says no plans to increase fuel prices in FY2017/18 Yomna Yasser Nov 4, 2017 0 Egypt's Petroleum Minister Tarek al-Molla reiterated on Thursday that the Cabinet does not plan to raise the…
International News Obamacare whiplash leaves states, insurers with dueling price plans Yomna Yasser Oct 21, 2017 0 U.S. President Donald Trump’s reversals in the past week on maintaining Obamacare subsidies to insurers are sowing…
International News Trump Obamacare move seen harming Americans, bipartisan prospects Yomna Yasser Oct 16, 2017 0 U.S. President Donald Trump will hurt low-income Americans by doing away with Obamacare subsidies and make it…
International News US states sue to block Trump Obamacare subsidies cut Yomna Yasser Oct 14, 2017 0 Eighteen U.S. states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday to stop him from scrapping a key…
International News Trump to issue stop-payment order on health care subsidies Yomna Yasser Oct 14, 2017 0 In a brash move likely to roil insurance markets, President Donald Trump will “immediately” halt payments to…
Industry & Trade Egypt to raise tobacco tax revenues by $397.50mn in FY2017/18 Yomna Yasser Oct 3, 2017 0 Egypt is planning to raise its revenues from taxes imposed on tobacco to seven billion Egyptian pounds ($397.50…
Industry & Trade Egypt will not increase fuel prices this financial year: FinMin Yomna Yasser Sep 27, 2017 0 Egypt will not hike prices on fuel products during the current financial year that began in July, the country’s…
Financial Institutions Egypt looks for $4 billion up on international debt market Yomna Yasser Aug 17, 2017 0 Egypt is planning to return to the international debt markets in January to raise as much as US$4 billion to fund…
Industry & Trade Chinese-funded electric train to run to Egypt new capital city Yomna Yasser Aug 16, 2017 0 Egypt is set to embark on a $255 million electric train project that will run to the country's planned new…
Industry & Trade Egypt to boost drinking water bills in August Yomna Yasser Aug 6, 2017 0 Egypt’s Cabinet decided to raise the drinking water and sewage fees starting August in a new step to reduce…
Egypt News Egypt’s minister: 76bn pounds social package for low income citizens Yomna Yasser Jul 10, 2017 0 Social Solidarity Minister, Ghada Wali, has said that the government is working on reducing burdens on the…
Industry & Trade Egypt’s government unveils new hikes in electricity prices by 42% Yomna Yasser Jul 8, 2017 0 Egypt announced new hikes in electricity prices by up to 42 percent for households as part of a government reform…
Industry & Trade No alternative to increasing fuel prices in Egypt Yomna Yasser Jun 15, 2017 0 An official source from the Ministry of Petroleum confirmed that there is no alternative to increasing fuel…
Industry & Trade Budget deficit falls 8% of Egypt’s GDP in first nine months of FY2016/17 Yomna Yasser May 23, 2017 0 Egypt's budget deficit for the first nine months of the financial year 2016/2017 ending in June dipped to eight…