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Amira Tawfik
Transport & Infrastructure Reporter
Covers how Egypt moves — metro and rail expansion, the informal microbus network that carries most journeys in Greater Cairo, roads, ports and aviation. The beat treats commuting time as an economic indicator: a labour market only functions if workers can physically reach employers, so a transport project is judged on door-to-door journey time and on how many jobs a person without a car can reach, not on kilometres of track opened.
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Latest stories by Amira Tawfik
Explainer: Egypt's plan to link Cairo's buses, metro and monorail under one card
Cairo's BRT project says it is working on a single smart card for the BRT, metro, light rail and monorail, though no launch date has been given.
16 Oct 2026
State Lawsuits Authority signs AI training protocol with Egypt's NTI
Egypt's NTI and the State Lawsuits Authority signed a protocol on 1 September to expand AI, cybersecurity and digital-transformation training for judicial legal advisers, building on a programme that has already trained over 600 counsellors.
3 Sept 2026
Egypt weighs rival Chinese and US bids for major AI data centre
Egypt's electricity ministry met Heka Data and a US consortium on 1 September to discuss power for a major data centre, as Huawei reportedly bid 2,008 AI chips for a rival facility and Washington approached Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft on a competing offer.
3 Sept 2026
Why xAIa's voice AI answers Gulf callers in dialect, not textbook Arabic
xAIa, a Dubai voice AI firm, says its phone agents answer Gulf callers with dialect words like abi, not Modern Standard Arabic's ureed. An independent reference confirms Gulf Arabic is a distinct dialect; the company's figures remain unverified.
3 Sept 2026
Four million riders a day: the full size of Egypt’s 2030 rail ambition, in numbers
A 2,250km high-speed network, 1.5 million daily conventional passengers, Metro Line 4 trials by mid-2027 — the transport minister has published the targets. Here is the whole board.
31 Aug 2026
Egypt’s first high-speed line enters trial running — what it changes, and what it does not
The Transport Ministry is preparing trial operations on the first high-speed electric line, linking Ain Sokhna to Marsa Matrouh from mid-September. The test that matters comes after the ribbon.
30 Aug 2026
Cairo's commute is an economic problem before it is a traffic one
Metro extensions and new rail links are reshaping how Greater Cairo moves. The measure that matters is not kilometres of track but hours returned to people.
30 Aug 2026