Network International, the leading enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, has launched its new direct-to-merchant service “networkpay” to promote financial inclusion and greater digital payment penetration in Egypt. The networkpay service simplifies payments for merchants, enabling them to accept electronic payments through different channels including both physical and digital, providing a fast, secure, and convenient way to make transactions. Committed to continuous innovation and improvement, with a focus on delivering new and enhanced features to the payment service, networkpay offers users a range of new features and functionalities that further enhance the payment experience over time. Andrew Key, Group Managing Director – Acquiring at Network International, commented: “With attractive demographics and a growing addressable market for digital payments, Egypt is a key growth accelerator for Network. Network has been at the forefront of driving digital payments acceptance and broader financial inclusion in Africa and with the introduction of networkpay we strive to provide a significant boost to Egypt’s economy by making payments more accessible to all.”

The Grand Egyptian Museum will organize its first-ever GEM Family Weekend event on May 26-27. The fun-filled event will be full of excitement with an Ancient Egyptian twist. The whole family will enjoy a variety of activities, including interactive games, ancient Egyptian-inspired arts and crafts, live music and entertainment, and more. GEM Family Weekend is a great opportunity for families to come together and create everlasting memories.

Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks during a meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen in Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. They also discussed the latest regional and international developments with regard to Syria, including the recent quadrilateral meeting in Moscow on working out a solution to the Syrian crisis. Amir-Abdollahian pointed to the recent visit by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to Damascus, saying the trip was an indication that Syria has reached a stage of lasting security. The minister also expressed gratitude to Pedersen for his work to promote peace and stability in Syria, while Pedersen commended Iran for its counterterrorism efforts and contributions to Syria's security and regional stability, according to the statement. Raisi, the first Iranian president to visit Syria since the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011, visited Damascus in early May and held extensive political and economic talks with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad.

One of the methods used by physicians to estimate body fat in patients is the body mass index (BMI). Another form of fat accumulation is myosteatosis, which occurs when fat accumulates in the muscles. For this reason, Dr Nachit and colleagues sought to identify the association between myosteatosis and mortality risk, while simultaneously studying visceral fat, liver steatosis, myopenia (muscle wasting) and obesity. The absolute mortality risk at 10 years in individuals with myosteatosis was 15.5% compared to obesity (7.6%), liver steatosis (8.5%) or myopenia (9.7%). While the presence of other health factors, such as visceral fat and liver steatosis, was also associated with a higher mortality risk, myosteatosis remained the highest.

Today marks the birthday of Za’eem ( Leader) of cinema, TV drama and theater in Egypt aka Adel Emam. The legendary Emam is Egypt’s biggest actor for over four decades of box office hits, series, plays under his belt. The Yacoubian Building also earned him an International Jury Award at the São Paulo International Film Festival and a Special Mention for Actor in a Narrative Feature from the Tribeca Film Festival. The Dubai international Film festival awarded him twice the Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2005 and 2008. Emam was awarded as well the Golden Star in 2014 at Marrakech International Film Festival, the Golden Tanit in 2016 at the Carthage Film Festival and the Career Achievement Award from the first edition of El Gouna Film Festival.

The MoU was signed by Sabah Mashaly, Chairperson and Managing Director of the EETC, and Terje Pilskog, CEO of Scatec ASA. Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker stated that the MoU supports and strengthens cooperation frameworks between Egypt and the European Union, especially in the field of energy in general and renewable energy in particular. It also contributes to cooperation and coordination with regard to exporting electric energy to Europe through Italy. Sabah Mashali said that the scope of the MoU includes cooperation to start conducting studies in preparation for the implementation of a project to export renewable energy to Europe via Italy, using a marine interconnection line with a capacity of not less than 3 gigawatts. In addition to all necessary infrastructure elements, as well as determining the route of the submarine cable required for the project and the best method for its implementation within the framework of compliance with performance standards related to environmental and social sustainability.

The minister praised the program's keenness to extend the roots of cooperation with the health sector in Egypt, stressing the importance of consolidating and developing cooperation mechanisms, within the joint work programs aimed at supporting public health. within the joint activities of the two parties. He added that the minister discussed with the UNDP representative the expansion of joint health projects. He pointed out the importance of coordinating participatory efforts and providing health care to Egyptian citizens and Sudanese coming to Egypt in the fight against HIV and tuberculosis. The minister stressed the commitment of the Ministry of Health and Population to work to achieve the goals of sustainable development and to keep pace with the global goal to eliminate HIV diseases and tuberculosis.

An Egyptian-Christian woman named Treveina Basily made the discovery of a lifetime when she found out that her DNA directly descends from an Ancient Egyptian mummy dating back to the Saite dynasty, the ninth period of ancient Egyptian history. Researcher Mohamed Abdel Hady published the findings in a report titled “An Egyptian whose genes date back to the era of the mummies of the Saite era.”Basily’s DNA analysis results revealed that she is of 100 percent Ancient Egyptian lineage, with no mixing whatsoever, Adel Hady said. Basily told Al-Masry Al-Youm the amazing story of her genetic lineage hails directly from Ancient Egypt. She sent a sample for genetic analysis to the company, and forgot about it, she said, until the results were sent back to her after three months. The analysis results needed a specialist to interpret it as it was difficult to understand for a layman like herself, she added.

The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company signed a memorandum with Norwegian company Scatec ASA to start studies for the electrical interconnection project between Egypt and Europe to export renewable energy via Italy. Shaker said that the memorandum of understanding aims to support and strengthen cooperation frameworks between Egypt and the European Union in the field of energy in general and renewable energy in particular. He added that it will contribute to coordination with regards to exporting electric energy to Europe via Italy. Egyptian presidential spokesperson Ahmed Fahmy said that Egypt reached agreements with Scatec ASA to establish some projects with investments amounting to US$ 12 billion. And the meeting also touched on the electrical interconnection project between Egypt and Europe to export renewable energy with a capacity of about three gigawatts, for which a memorandum of understanding was signed to start studies.

Bhayana and associates first evaluated ChatGPT based on GPT-3.5, the most widely used version, to evaluate its performance on radiology board exam questions and investigate benefits and limits. The higher-order thinking questions were further subdivided into categories (description of imaging findings, clinical care, computation and categorization, and illness links). The model struggled with questions demanding higher-order thinking (60%, 53 of 89), but did reasonably well on questions requiring lower-order thinking (84%, 51 of 61). Given its lack of pretraining in radiology, it was not surprising that it performed poorly on higher-order thinking issues. The results imply that the allegedly superior advanced reasoning abilities of GPT-4 translate to improved performance in a radiology setting.

Egypt’s Supreme Council for Investments announces a package of incentives and administrative reforms in a bid to boost investments in the country. They also agreed to amend the articles regulating the golden license to ensure that companies established before the investment law of 2017 may be granted the golden license. To address the difficulty of importing production requirements, a draft decision was approved to amend Law No. Within the framework of efforts to create a stable tax legislative environment, a draft decision was approved to accelerate the release of Egypt’s tax policy document for the next five years. This includes agricultural, industrial, and energy sectors with regard to green hydrogen production, in addition to the housing sector, real estate developers and investment projects in new cities, as well as the transportation sector.

The sources added that a number of local and Gulf companies are competing to buy the Egyptian company, and among those offers is the Emirati food company Agthia, which also works in the water bottling activity. A government statement revealed last week that the database of the Safi Water and Wataniya companies for the distribution of petroleum products has been opened. The statement added that offers will be received during the current month of May, in preparation for the award in accordance with the specified timetables, and it was emphasized that there are major alliances between Egyptian and foreign companies that have expressed their desire and interest in progress. The sources pointed out that among the inquiries that the fund received from investors was the possibility of acquiring 100% of the company's shares, in addition to the possibility of purchasing a water bottling and packaging plant only without the rest of the company's activities. The government is seeking to accelerate the offering program after a disappointing start, and aims to collect $2bn during the current and next months from concluding exit deals from a number of companies.

Egypt’s Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar received the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Egypt, Alessandro Fracassetti, to discuss ways of cooperation in the health sector. The minister praised the program’s keenness to extend the roots of cooperation with the health sector in Egypt, stressing the importance of consolidating and developing cooperation mechanisms, within the joint work programs aimed at supporting public health. He added that the minister discussed with the UNDP representative the expansion of joint health projects. He pointed out the importance of coordinating participatory efforts and providing health care to Egyptian citizens and Sudanese coming to Egypt in the fight against HIV and tuberculosis. The minister stressed the commitment of the Ministry of Health and Population to work to achieve the goals of sustainable development and to keep pace with the global goal to eliminate HIV diseases and tuberculosis.

CAIRO – 16 May 2023: Representatives of political parties presented Tuesday at the National Dialogue sessions their visions on enhancing social protection and eradicating poverty. Representative of Dostor Party Riham al-Gazar suggested establishing an authority for managing pensions and social insurance that is independent from the Ministry of Social Solidarity. That is in addition to amending the social insurance law. In that context, Representative of Wafd Party Hatem Banna suggested establishing a unit for microfinancing in order to create jobs, and help existing micro businesses to be part of the formal sector. Simultaneously, Representative of the Democratic Generation Party Monica William urged redefining the categories of below poverty line and marginalized, given the current price hikes.

Another eyewitness in the south of the capital said that“aviation shelling and anti-aircraft strikes have been going on since the morning. Nothing has changed since the beginning of the conflict. The RSF's leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (known as Hemedti) dismissed rumours that he had been killed or injured in the battles. “They are spreading rumours that Mohamed Hamdan has been killed, and these are all lies that show that they are being defeated” he said. The war broke out after disputes over plans for the RSF to be absorbed into the army and the chain of command in a new political transition.