Sep 28, 2017 | Egypt, Menas Associates
Prime Minister, Sherif Ismail, announced on 23 September that state institutions will be headquartered in Egypt’s new capital city, to the east of Cairo, by the end of 2018. In what is, by Egyptian standards, an exceptionally ambitious programme to move...
Sep 19, 2017 | Egypt, Menas Associates
Foreign currency earnings from Egyptian expatriates have continued to flow strongly and — unlike in the past when almost all of the remittance flows were undertaken through formal and informal foreign exchange companies — are now being undertaken through the banking...
Aug 21, 2017 | Egypt, Menas Associates
This is an excerpt from an article in our weekly Egypt Politics & Security publication. Egypt Politics & Security has long warned that a labour strike would be a sign of social strife and — for the first time in some years — there is a major labour strike in a...
Jul 20, 2017 | Egypt, Menas Associates
This is an excerpt from an article in our fortnightly Egypt Politics & Security publication. President Abdelfattah el-Sisi has ratified Parliament’s decision to approve the handing of sovereignty of the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia. This...
Jun 27, 2017 | Egypt, Menas Associates
This is an excerpt from an article in our fortnightly publication, Egypt Politics & Security. It now seems that the Egyptian government will no longer tolerate any form of dissent; is unafraid of the domestic or international consequences; and is not going to...
Jun 9, 2017 | Egypt, Menas Associates
This is an except from our article in our fortnightly Egypt Politics & Security publication. The most significant security incident over the last two weeks was the 26 May attack on a group of Christians who were travelling to St Samuel Monastery in Upper Egypt, to...
