Egyptian Ambassador to Sudan Hany Salah has asserted cooperation between Cairo and Khartoum is witnessing a big and important development. In statements on the sidelines of meeting Sudanese Minister of Communications and Digital Transformation, Adel Hassan Mohamed Hussein, Salah said the IT sector is seeing an important development. The Sudanese minister expressed pleasure over meeting the Egyptian diplomat, noting that the meeting discussed several files related to the development of relations between Egypt and Sudan in the field of communications, referring to his visit to Egypt in the coming days, stressing importance of exchanging and transfer of experiences among Arab countries, Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported. Salah indicated importance of cooperation between the two countries in this field which witnessing great qualitative development, pointing to the training 500 Sudanese cadres last year from the Sudanese Ministry of Communications in Egypt. He expressed pleasure at readiness of the Sudanese official to cooperate with Egypt.

(Reuters) - Premier League leaders Arsenal announced the arrival of versatile Belgium international winger Leandro Trossard on Friday on a long-term contract from Brighton & Hove Albion. Trossard has scored seven goals in 16 league appearances this season, including a hat-trick against Liverpool at Anfield in October. Media reports said the deal was for four and a half years and would cost Arsenal 27 million pounds ($33.43 million) -- an initial 20 million expenditure plus add-ons. "He is a versatile player with high technical ability, intelligence and a great deal of experience in the Premier League and at international level. It helps me that I’m versatile and that I can play in different positions," he told the Arsenal website.

The ministry has begun its plan to convert to electric transport in Sharm El- Sheikh and the tourist cities of Hurghada, Luxor and Aswan. The monorail is among various methods of green transportation that Egypt has been con-structing in order to improve mobility for its population, reduce emissions, and ease traffic congestion. Egypt’s BRT systemThe BRT is a high-quality bus-based transit system that delivers fast, comfortable, and cost- effective urban mobility. Operating on electricity and stopping at des- ignated stations, the BRT system will replace microbuses, which will be completely banned on the Ring Road. The BRT system is designed to travel for a dis- tance of 106 kilometers, where buses will oper- ate 18 hours a day with a speed of 50km/hour.

Despite a much-needed win that moved City five points behind leaders Arsenal in the Premier League standings, Guardiola was not happy. "Passion, fire and desire to want to win (was missing) from the first minute," Guardiola said. Today we were lucky but nine times, 10 times you don't come back. I don't want to be a happy flowers, I want to beat Arsenal but if we play in that way Arsenal will destroy, they will beat us." In this country, to win the league back-to-back titles, twice, with the way we played, with consistency, against this Liverpool side?

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued Decree No. 12 of the Year 2023, appointing 100 deputies for the State Council head. The decree, which was published in the official gazette on Thursday, also included appointing two undersecretaries at the State Council.

The Saudi government's entertainment arm said on Twitter that Mushref Al-Ghamdi, general manager of real estate group AqarOne, was the highest bidder for a "Beyond Imagination" ticket. The winner will attend Thursday's match in Riyadh featuring a combined team from Saudi clubs Al Nassr - who recently signed Ronaldo - and Al Hilal versus Messi's Paris St Germain in the duo's first on-pitch meeting since Juventus beat Barcelona 3-0 in December 2020. Though revenue from the auction will go to charity, the event could also fuel accusations of "sportswashing" by Saudi Arabia -- distracting attention from rights abuses by splashing money on sport. As well as attracting Ronaldo, Saudi Arabia have signed up Messi as a tourism ambassador. Paris St Germain is owned by the Qatari government, which has just staged the World Cup.

CAIRO – 19 January 2023: Egypt has called for halting all unilateral measures that undermine the two-state solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict in a statement delivered during a quarterly open debate held by the UN Security Council on the Palestinian cause. Egypt has called for stopping unilateral actions undertaken by Israel, warning against such unilateral actions, including Israel's continued settlement activities, violence acts against Palestinian civilians and demolition of Palestinian homes. Egypt also underlined the need of avoiding measures that would change the legal status quo of the West Bank, including Jerusalem, which is considered an occupied Palestinian territory. Egypt called on all parties to exercise self-restraint, act responsibly and refrain from any measures that could inflame the situation. The three leaders stipulated the importance of preserving the rights of the Palestinian people, and reaching a fair, comprehensive and permanent solution to the cause.

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CAIRO - 19 January 2023: Egypt is preparing to open the largest spinning and weaving factory in the world in a few days, with investments of more than LE 23 billion, Akhbar Al-Youm reported on Thursday. In July 2020, the Holding Company for Cotton, Spinning, Weaving and Garments signed a contract to establish the world's largest spinning factory at Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in El-Mahalla El-Kubra. According to the statement, the factory is built on an area of about 62,500 square meters, and accommodates more than 182,000 spinners, with an average production capacity of 30 tons / day. The construction work of the factory took about 14 months, at an estimated cost of about LE 780 million. The development plan is based on increasing specialization and reducing the frequency of the same activities in more than one company, by merging 23 spinning, weaving, dyeing and processing companies into nine companies, and merging nine companies for cotton ginning and trade into one company dedicated to this activity.

CAIRO - 19 January 2023: Egypt’s NWFE program aims to mobilize investments worth $14.7 billion, according to Minister of International Cooperation, Rania Al-Mashat. This came during Al-Mashat participation in the Agility Tanden Talk on the current state of the global economy and how to move forward in stimulating investments to build sustainable economies, alongside Stephen Gerard Pagliuca, co-chairman of Bain Capital, an international private sector firm. This is done in order to stimulate green transformation and implement NDCs and to achieve economic growth. Meanwhile, NWFE is a mechanism that can be replicated and applied in all developing and emerging economies to stimulate their ability to implement climate ambitions. The WEF 2023 Annual Meetings in Davos, Switzerland is being held under the theme "Cooperation in a Fragmented World", with the participation of several heads of state, heads of government, ministers, and major private sector companies.

CAIRO - 18 January 2023: Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism aims to attract 30 million tourists by 2028, according to Minister Ahmed Issa. According to Issa’s previous statements , since assuming his duties, he has been working on a number of tasks and setting priorities, perhaps the most important of which is reaching the 30 million tourists who visit Egypt every year. He added that the assignments of Prime Minister, Mostafa Madbouli, were to reach $30 billion in tourism within the 2030 plan, which the ministry is currently working on. Tourism Minister Ahmed Issa said in a meeting with the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, that About 13 million tourists visited Egypt in 2019. Recently, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expected an increase in tourism sector revenues to record $11.3 billion in 2022/2023, $14.2 billion in 2023/2024, $18.9 billion in 2024/2025, $22.8 billion in 2025/2026, and $26.

CAIRO - 17 January 2022: Egypt’s cash reserves cover 5.4 months of the foreign imports, which exceeds the measures of reserve adequacy according to international standards, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) revealed. The CBE stated, in a statement issued today, Monday, that Egypt's cash reserves continued to rise for the fourth month in a row, to achieve an increase of more than $860 million during that period, reaching $34 billion at the end of December, compared to $33.53 billion at the end of November. The reserve recorded at the end of December its highest level since May 2022, despite the payment of payments related to the country's external indebtedness, according to the CBE. The Central Bank referred, in a statement, to the large increase in banks’ foreign exchange earnings, whether from the local market, or the proceeds of remittances from Egyptians abroad, as well as from the tourism sector. Moreover, Foreign investors’ entry into the Egyptian market has also been monitored since last Wednesday, with amounts exceeding $925 million.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with Presidential Advisor for Financial Affairs, Mohamed Amin, to review the activities of the Tahya Misr Fund (Long Live Egypt Fund) and its contribution to supporting the development process and social protection programmes. The total contributions that the fund has injected into various sectors and fields nationwide since its establishment has exceeded EGP 22bn pounds. The funds were distributed across several fields, with urban development and alternative housing receiving about EGP 7bn and the field of health care with about EGP 11.5bn. These were allocated to medical procedures associated with the coronavirus pandemic, health initiatives and medical devices in hospitals. The President has continuously directed the Tahya Misr Fund to enhance its activities and programmes, in partnership with government agencies, civil society institutions and the private sector.

Joint military aviation drills involving Belarusian and Russian forces are underway, the Belarusian defense ministry said in a press release Monday. “Today, a joint tactical flight exercise of the aviation units of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, which are part of the aviation component of the regional grouping of troops, has started,” reads the statement. “To ensure the conduct of the exercise, all airfields and ranges of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus are involved,” it added. Earlier this month, the Belarusian Ministry of Defense announced that Minsk and Moscow were planning to hold joint aviation drills from January 16 to February 1. In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the two countries would continue joint drills and other combat training measures, which would involve the joint group of forces of the so-called “Union State,” according to Russian state news agency TASS.

CAIRO – 16 January 2023: The Egyptian authorities are finalizing legal measures for the release of a new group of 31 pretrial detainees, Presidential Pardon Committee member Tarek El-Khouly said in a Facebook post on Monday. “This comes within the framework of the Presidential Pardon Committee’s efforts in coordination with the Public Prosecution and the relevant state authorities,” Khouly stated. The Presidential Pardon Committee, formed in 2016 and reactivated by Sisi in April, aims to release young prisoners of conscience and reintegrate them into society. The committee receives pardon requests via many avenues, including through the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) and the human rights committees of the House of Representatives and Senate. In addition, the committee receives pardon requests through the National Youth Conference website.