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  Members of Parliament have expressed concerns following reports that high fees are being charged at the private wing of the Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital. Buhweju County Member of Parliament, Hon. Francis Mwijukye raised the issue stating that the high fees charged on women for consultation and antenatal care to delivery are unfair. “Yesterday I was at Mulago Specialised Hospital to visit a woman who delivered and was […]

  Angola is experiencing a resurgence in interest in its oil and gas sector as global players seek to tap into the country’s vast and lucrative energy potential. With the increasing global demand for energy, Angola is positioning itself as a key player in the market, according to Alcides Andrade, Executive Administrator of the National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG). Speaking at CERAWeek in Houston, Andrade revealed that […]

  People in some of the most populated parts of Mayom County can now tune in to Radio Miraya, a broadcaster operated by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), to stay reliably informed. Local authorities and residents alike hope that the newly installed transmitter will also aid efforts to prevent persistent cattle raiding and promote peace in the area. “Women here have been rather isolated and with little […]

  On March 11, 2025 the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Evgeny Shestakov, received copies of Credentials of the аmbassadors of Burkina Faso and Kenya.  During the meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Burkina Faso to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus concurrently, Aristide Rapugdondba Ludovic Tapsoba, issues of enhancing cooperation at the interregional level and between the Ministries of Foreign […]

  H.E. Dr. Rania A. Al-Mashat, Minister of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation, participated in a meeting of the Economic Committee of the House of Representatives, chaired by MP Mohamed Suleiman. The meeting was attended by the committee’s deputy chairs, MP Mohamed Abdel Hamid, MP Kamal El-Din El-Shafei, and MP Tarek Hassan Ammar, the committee’s secretary, and the members of the committee, to discuss the implementation of the 2023/2024 […]

  The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) (www.ITFC-idb.org), the trade finance arm of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, announced that two of its trade finance deals have been honored in the prestigious Islamic Finance News (IFN) Deal of the Year Awards for 2024. In Egypt, the ITFC record-breaking US$604 million syndicated financing for the Arab Republic of Egypt represented by Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) was recognized as the […]

  On March 11, 2025 the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Sergei Terentiev, met with the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt for European Affairs, Wael Hamed. The parties outlined steps to intensify contacts at various levels, ties between specialized authorities in a wide range of areas of economic cooperation. Special attention was paid to […]

  Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received a phone call from the Prime Minister of Nepal, KP Sharma Oli. The Spokesman for the Presidency, Ambassador Mohamed El-Shennawy, said President El-Sisi stressed during the call the need to continue strengthening relations between the two countries across fields, particularly in the economic and investment sectors. The prime minister of Nepal expressed his appreciation for Egypt’s support for his country in various fields […]

  #ForAllWomenAndGirls is a rallying call for action on the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Aneth Gerena Isaya, a leading advocate for the economic empowerment of women with disabilities in Tanzania, talks about the critical need for disability inclusion and how she is driving efforts to make it a reality. As the Executive Director of The Joy of Deaf Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania (FUWAVITA)—an organization she […]