Press Photo - “To build it” campaign in cooperation with Nation’s Future party arranges medical and food convoys in Halayeb, Shalatin and Abu Ramad of the Red Sea Governorate, December 1, 2017. CAIRO - 24 January 2022: The Ministry of Health and Population said Sunday that 38 free medical convoys were launched Sunday in remote areas, which are deprived of health services, across the nation. The convoys, sent in the last week of January, come as part of the presidential Decent Life initiative. Spokesman for the Health Ministry Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said strict measures against Covid-19 will be applied.

The Acting Professions Syndicate issued a statement regarding the controversy surrounding the Arabic version of the “Perfect Strangers” film, “Ashab Wala Aaz”. The Acting Professions Syndicate said that it “followed closely all the reactions that appeared in the media and social media websites, and some opinions from political figures (individually or representing their parties)”. Critics accused the film of promoting homosexuality and said that Zaki uttered words they described as “pornographic”. “Ashab, Wala Aaz” is an adaption of an award-winning Italian film of the name Perfect Strangers. The film will premiere on the streaming service with subtitles in 31 languages and dubbing in three languages.

CAIRO - 24 January 2022: A new tablet PC manufacturing facility will be established in Egypt within the existing TV manufacturing factory, this year, said South Korean ambassador to Egypt in a statement. He added that, currently, around 95% of the construction of tablet PC manufacturing facility is done, mass production is expected to commence soon. Ambassador Hong expects bilateral economic cooperation to be elevated through the historical visit of the first Korean President to visit Egypt in 16 years with the last visit being in 2006, the statement said. Telecommunications Minister, Dr. Amr Talaat, has expressed his wishes to expand the scope of the Tablet PC project through maximizing production. These tablet PCs will be provided to Egyptian high school students for free to aid in their education and studies.

CAIRO – 24 January 2022: The Egyptian Railways Authority is preparing to receive the first batch of Spanish air-conditioned trains contracted with the Spanish company Talgo within days. The batch was shipped by sea from Spain towards the port of Alexandria. The deal includes six trains being manufactured in Spain at a total cost of 126 million euros, to be financed through a soft loan provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, official sources told Egypt Today. He pointed out that the entire deal trains are expected to arrive by the end of 2022, as these will work on the main line from Alexandria to Aswan and back. They also have designated places for people with special needs, each seat of the first air-conditioned carriages is equipped with a display screen, in addition to the presence of central screens in the second-class air-conditioned carriages, and there will be surveillance cameras in the trains to secure the passengers.

CAIRO – 24 January 2022: Director of the Forecasting Unit at the Egyptian General Authority of Meteorology Dr. Mahmoud Shaheen stated that Egypt is affected by airmasses resulted from storms that took place during the past days, denying that Egypt is witnessing any storms coming from abroad. The current severe cold weather witnessed in Egypt is caused as a result of storms, and will continue until the end of January, Shaheen added. In a phone call to TV program on Al-Qahera Wal-Nas channel, Shahee said that temperatures are expected to drop by two to three degrees on Wednesday and next Thursday. Dr. Mahmoud Shaheen explained that January is the coldest month in the winter season, and that the cold weather will relent during the coming months.

CAIRO - 24 January 2022: Egypt will issue its first sovereign sukuk offering before the end of next June, according to Deputy Minister of Finance for Financial Policies, Ahmed Kojak. Kojak said in a TV interview that the ministry has made great strides in completing the procedures for offering the sukuk, which it is seeking to complete during the current period. Earlier, the Egyptian Cabinet approved the start of the Ministry of Finance procedures for issuing sovereign sukuk in international markets. In June 2021, the Egyptian House of Representatives approved a draft law submitted by the government to issue the Sovereign Sukuk Law. In order to achieve the aforementioned goals, the government saw the importance and necessity of creating a new type of government securities called “sovereign sukuk”; this is in accordance with the presented draft law.

Egyptian Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad and Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled al-Ananiy held an extensive meeting to prepare for Egypt’s hosting of the COP27 conference on Climate Change in Sharm el-Sheikh. The meeting discussed the steps taken to transform the city of Sharm el-Sheikh into a green city, and the conversion of means of transportation within the city to natural gas or electricity is being studied. The conference will witness the attendance of nearly 30,000 participants from around the world, she indicated. The minister praised the role of Tourism Ministry in ecological and sustainable tourism, which yielded many clear international results. And she highlighted the part the Ministry of Tourism contributed towards organizing the climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh.

Subsidising the purchase of electric cars in Canada is an inefficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that is not cost effective, a study revealed yesterday. — AFP-Relaxnews picCAIRO - 23 January 2022: MB for Engineering, in cooperation with Wataniya Petroleum, inaugurated the largest charging station for electric cars in Egypt. The station that was inaugurated Sunday is the first in a network of stations that will be established at the level of the Republic. The company will apply for an electric charging network operator license, with defining the controls regulating it. The company said that this is part of the state's drive to strengthen the electric car sector with its integrated industry.

The producers of Netflix’s first Arab production film “Ashab, Wala Aaz” and actress Mona Zaki were subjected to harsh criticism from social media users, hours after the film was shown on the digital platform. Critics accused the film of promoting homosexuality and said that Zaki uttered words they described as “pornographic”. A hashtag with the name of the film topped the search engines online, becoming one of the most trending in the Arab world. “Ashab, Wala Aaz” is an adaption of an award-winning Italian film of the name Perfect Strangers. The film will premiere on the streaming service with subtitles in 31 languages and dubbing in three languages.

The Ministry of Health and Population in Egypt announced on Sunday that it had received 1,842,750 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, provided by the US government through the COVAX mechanism in cooperation with the International Alliance for Vaccines Gavi. A statement by the ministry said that the shipment arrived on Saturday evening, at Cairo International Airport. It comes within the state’s plan to diversify and expand the provision of coronavirus vaccines, in order to preserve the state’s gains in addressing the pandemic. The Pfizer vaccine has emergency use approval from the World Health Organization and the Egyptian Drug Authority, which is two doses separated by 21 days, it added. Egypt has thus far succeeded in providing all types of vaccines against the coronavirus, according to Government reports.

It’s unclear what means Britain believes Russia might use to install a friendly government in Kyiv. Amid diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis, U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace is expected to meet Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu for talks in Moscow. A meeting Friday between Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ended with no breakthrough. Estonia also is seeking Germany’s approval to send Soviet-made howitzers, which once belonged to East Germany, to Ukraine. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba alleged Saturday that Germany was not showing adequate support for Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Shoukry said that Egypt looks forward to making conditions suitable for the return of Syria to the Arab League in order to play a role in maintaining Arab national security. Shoukry also praised relations between Egypt and Oman, saying that efforts are underway to increase the volume of trade exchange between the two countries. For his part, the Omani foreign minister voiced Oman's support for Egypt in the GERD talks, stressing that the Egyptian position on the GERD issue is rightful and logical. Oman looks forward to a GERD agreement that serves the interests of all countries, he said. Albusaidi called on the Omani-Egyptian business community and businessmen to exert more efforts to increase the volume of trade exchange between the two countries

CAIRO - 23 January 2022: Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad and Tourism Minister Khaled Anani conferred Sunday on preparations for an upcoming climate change conference COP 27. The meeting took up steps to turn Sharm El Sheikh into a green city to help achieve sustainability across Egypt. Fouad said they talked about cooperation between the two ministries to implement measures as part of a sustainable tourism strategy ahead of the COP27. Anani said the Egyptian tourism sector is willing to exert utmost effort to render the COP27 successful. Fouad met on Jan. 21 with Under-Secretary-General of the UN and Executive Secretary of ESCWA Rola Dashti and her accompanying delegation to discuss technical support the ESCWA could offer to Egypt as part of preparations for the Parties (COP27) of the UN Climate Change Conference, set for Red Sea Resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh later in the year.

CAIRO - 23 January 2022: EgyptAir، Egypt’s state-owned flag carrier, decided to resume its flights to and from Algeria, as of February 6, with two flights per week on Thursdays and Sundays, the company announced in a statement on Sunday. The company said that their agents can book travel tickets through EgyptAir’s call center (1717) or through the Egyptair.com website, or visit the company’s offices or the nearest tourist agent. Recently, the company operated the first Cairo-Kharga flight after years of suspension within the framework of encouraging investment and tourism in the New Valley governorate.

FILE- Employees in the EGX following performance of the trading session on December 12, 2017CAIRO - 23 January 2022: The second phase of Arab Dairy Products Co. - Panda offering in the capital increase has been oversubscribed by 100 percent. The company explained in a statement to the Egyptian Exchange (EGX), Sunday, that the allocation percentage is 0.55 percent, adding that the opening of the subscription for shares during the second phase resulted in covering 86.93 shares. The subscription was opened for the first phase during the period from December 5, 2021 to January 4, 2022, which resulted in the subscription covering a number of shares of 129.91 million shares. Arab Dairy - Panda, achieved losses of LE 13.65 million from the beginning of January until the end of last September, compared to losses of LE 3.35 million during the same period last year, taking into account minority rights. The company's sales rose during the nine months to record LE 1 billion at the end of September, compared to LE 927.94 million during the same period last year.