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Residential tower blocks lining the bank of the Nile in Cairo

Egypt's new property resale index shows demand outpacing new listings

Real Estate5 min read
An Egyptian one-pound banknote showing a mosque with a tall minaret

MNT-Halan's retail IPO window is set to close before 20 October EGX debut

Business5 min read
A red oil products tanker sailing through the Suez Canal past desert banks

Egypt and Saudi Arabia sign oil and gas cooperation deal in Riyadh

Business5 min read
Vegetables on sale at a market in Egypt

Egypt's annual urban inflation eases to 13.9% in September

Business5 min read
The banking hall inside the Banque Misr building in Cairo

Banque du Caire to list 30% stake on EGX after 19-year delay

Business5 min read
A tall electricity transmission tower stands in the desert, with rows of wind turbines visible in the hazy distance.

Infinity Power, Hassan Allam sign 1GW wind deal for Ras Shokeir on the Red Sea

Business5 min read
Main Bank of Egypt

US Treasury moves against Banque Misr's five UAE branches — Cairo operations left out

Business6 min read
Rows of cylindrical oil storage tanks behind a perimeter fence at a riverside fuel terminal in Purfleet, England.

Egypt and Fujairah incorporate a joint oil-trading company at New Alamein

Business5 min read
Container cranes at the MPET- MSC PSA European Terminal in Port of Antwerp (Kieldrecht, Belgium) during the sunset civil twilight

Egypt's exports to China nearly tripled in H1 2026, but the deficit still widened

Business5 min read
North Sea Oil Rig

BP's Fayoum 4 well starts up two years early, adding 80 million cubic feet a day

Business5 min read
A large liquefied natural gas carrier under way on open water, its storage tanks visible above the deck

Egypt's LNG cargo bill doubles to $80m as its only Mediterranean import vessel sits idle

Business5 min read
Cairo Skyline (2020)

Egypt's small caps ran ahead of the blue chips in August: the EGX70 rose 14.6%

Business5 min read
An Internal Path, Cairo Airport Terminal 3

Terminal 4 would take Cairo airport to 70 million passengers. The cost figure is a year old

Transport5 min read
Two Siemens Velaro high-speed trains parked nose to nose inside a covered depot, with a Renfe logo visible on the nearer train.

Four million riders a day: the full size of Egypt’s 2030 rail ambition, in numbers

Transport4 min read
An industrial fertilizer production facility

How Egypt quietly became one of the world’s fertilizer heavyweights

Business4 min read
The Riyadh skyline at dusk, with the Kingdom Centre and Al Faisaliyah towers lit up

A billion riyals for bricks: Saudi-Egyptian consortium Asl plans a SAR 1bn real estate and hospitality fund

Real Estate4 min read
An oil pump jack working at dusk

Oil climbs on US-Iran strikes as the Fed’s Warsh warns inflation work is not done

Business4 min read
A loaded container ship under way at sea

Eighty-three ships redirected: what the Iran maritime blockade means for the arteries of world trade

Business4 min read
Passengers inside an airport terminal in Egypt

Egypt sets a $15 fee for entry and transit visas from January 2027 — what travellers need to know

Visas4 min read
A high-speed electric train on the line

Egypt’s first high-speed line enters trial running — what it changes, and what it does not

Transport4 min read
The Mediterranean coastline in Egypt

Matrouh gets a new corniche and a new project — the north coast’s next chapter

Real Estate4 min read
A sugarcane field at harvest time

A $278m bioethanol venture, and the question of what Egypt does with what it already grows

Business4 min read
A small automated teller machine booth outside a bank branch, with cars parked in the adjacent lot.

The Central Bank has a message about one-time passwords, and it is worth taking literally

Business5 min read
A train at a Cairo metro station platform

Cairo's commute is an economic problem before it is a traffic one

Transport5 min read

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