CAIRO – 7 August 2023: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al Sisi met with the Sultan of Bohra Community in India, Mufaddal Saifuddin, who was accompanied by his sons Prince Ja’far El-Sadiq Imadduddin, Prince Taha Najmuddin, and Prince Husain Burhanuddin. According to Presidency Spokesperson, Ahmed Fahmy, the meeting was also attended by Chief of the General Intelligence Service, Major General Abbas Kamel, as well as the Sultan’s representative in Egypt, Mufaddal Mohammad. President Sisi welcomed Sultan Mufaddal Saifuddin as a dear guest of Egypt, and lauded the historical relations between Egypt and the Bohra community. Sultan Mufaddal Saifuddin commended the ongoing progress realized under the President's leadership as well as the development achievements realized across various fields in Egypt. President Sisi awarded Sultan Mufaddal Saifuddin, Sultan of the Bohra community, the Nile Sash, in recognition of his ongoing efforts in Egypt at the cultural, charitable and community levels.

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CAIRO – 7 August 2023: Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Khaled Ibrahim described the Sudanese-Egyptian relations as ‘firm’ on Monday. He expressed his thanks in televised statements to Egypt and President Abdel Fattah al Sisi for supporting the Sudanese people. He pointed out that the Sudanese Foreign Ministry is open to all initiatives, and that there is communication between Sudan and all of its neighboring countries. The meeting of the ministerial mechanism is anticipated by million of Sudanese people, who are intimidated daily by the unabated fighting nationwide, Shoukry said. He added that: "Millions of hopeful Sudanese people; those who are remaining in their homeland, the ones who are abroad and those who fled the scourge of war to the neighboring countries, deem the initiative as the last resort".

The Ministry of Education and Technical Education on Saturday announced its schedule for the 2023/2024 academic year. This academic year is scheduled to start from Saturday, September 30 until Saturday, June 8, 2024, covering different educational stages of government and private schools. First semesterThe first semester is scheduled to start on September 30, until Thursday, January 25, 2024. The first semester exam for basic competencies exam for transfer classes in technical education schools (Jadarat) will start on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. Second semesterThe second semester will start on Saturday, February 10, 2024, until Thursday, June 6, 2024, while the start of the second semester exams for the transfer and preparatory certificate classes will be on Saturday, May 25, 2024.

Egypt’s Minister of the Environment Yasmine Fouad and Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa discussed on Sunday ways to enhance cooperation between the two ministries to support the environmental and sustainable tourism products and regulate activities in natural reserves. The meeting also discussed ways to enhance joint efforts to further integrate the environmental dimension into the tourism sector in Egypt, in addition to mechanisms to confront and limit poaching activities, eliminate any wrong practices, and spread environmentally friendly practices that contribute to restoring the efficiency of the ecosystem. During the meeting, Fouad reviewed the most important axes of the Ministry of Environment’s work to develop nature reserves, raise the quality of services provided, and integrate the surrounding communities. The Minister of Environment drew attention to the importance of marketing eco-tourism, referring to the “Eco Egypt” and “Stories from Its People” campaigns, which shed light on eco-tourism in nature reserves and the local communities in them, with their distinctive culture and heritage. Recently, the Tourism Ministry has completed the evaluation and licensing of a number of environmental hotel establishments in Siwa Oasis, Matrouh governorate, which are the first environmental hotels to be evaluated in accordance with the Egyptian requirements and standards approved for evaluating ecolodge hotels.

The ministry didn’t provide a reason for the change in rules, however Modi has aggressively pushed his “Make in India” campaign, which promotes local manufacturing in a bid to create more jobs. India’s electronic imports stood at $19.7 billion in the April to June period, up 6.25% from the same period in 2022, according to Reuters. Its large and young labor force makes the country a big draw for global companies seeking alternative manufacturing hubs to China. Earlier this year, India’s commerce minister, Piyush Goyal, said Apple was already making between 5% and 7% of its products in India. Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and a key supplier to Apple, is also looking to expand its manufacturing operations in India.

At least 10 cars of a passenger train derailed in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province on Sunday, killing at least 30 passengers while injuring over 100 others, government and police officials said. He said that critically injured people will be transported to the southern port city of Karachi for better treatment. Minister for Railway Khawaja Saad Rafique told the media that authorities are investigating the incident and the possibility of “sabotage” can be ruled out. Affaq Rao, an eyewitness, told Xinhua he was working in the fields when he heard a strange loud bang. After the train derailment, train operations were suspended, affecting the routine of many trains, with railway authorities saying that it may take up to 18 hours to restore operations.

CAIRO – 7 August 2023: The body of the missing worker of the sunken tugboat that collided with a giant tanker in the Suez Canal was recovered on Sunday evening, said Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Chief Admiral Osama Rabie. The deceased was an Egyptian mechanic from Port Said called Sayed Moussa, Reuters quoted his family as saying. In a statement, Rabie said a SCA salvage team and the salvage crane Inkaz have been deployed to recover the tugboat Fahd after it collided with 230-meter Hong Kong-flagged LPG tanker Chinagas Legend. The oil tanker was sailing among the south convoy at the canal on its journey from Singapore to the United States when the incident took place. The tugboat sank after it was flooded with water due to the collision.

CAIRO – 6 August 2023: Those who throw trash on the Ring Road would be referred to the military prosecution, announced Minister of Transportation Kamel El Wazir in a statement on Sunday. The decision was issued in a bid to avoid possible road accidents and fulfill the health requirements of the population. The microbus caught fire after being rear-ended by a truck, according to reports. Egypt saw a decline in injuries due to road accidents by 9.3 percent in 2021 compared to 2020. However, the number of deaths due to road accidents in the country rose by 15.2 percent to 7,101, according to the official statistical agency (CAPMAS).

ISLAMABAD, Aug 6 (MENA) - At least 15 people were killed and over 40 were injured on Sunday when eight coaches of Pakistan's Hazara Express train en route from Karachi to Rawalpindi derailed near the Sarhari Railway Station in Nawabshah district. Police, rescue officials ambulances reached the site upon receiving information of the accident while train operations on the track were immediately suspended, according to the Express Tribune newspaper. Scores of villagers from nearby villages also reached the spot and started rescuing the stranded passengers. According to Rescue 1122, initially, 20 passengers were rescued and shifted to the Peoples Hospital Nawabshah. Director General Health Services Sindh Dr Irshad Memon said that 19 bodies have been transferred to nearby hospitals, including 12 to Sanghar and seven to the Nawabshah hospital.

The Ministry of Education and Technical Education on Saturday announced that the new academic year 2023/2024 will begin on Saturday September 30, 2023 and will end on June 8, 2024 for all the academic stages. The mid-year vacation of the first semester will start on January 27, 2024, for all public, private, language, and experimental schools. International schools having a desire to start the academic year earlier, as early as the last week in August, are required to submit a request to the Education Ministry for approval. The ministry said that the academic year will last for 35 weeks, adding that the second term will begin on February 10, 2024 and ends on June 6, 2024. The duration of the mid-year vacation will be two weeks between January 27 – February 8, 2024, the ministry added.

The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Saturday that the new discovery was made during the mission’s diving and archaeological survey work. The Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, said that Alamein was of commercial importance on the northern coast in the third century BC, with many commercial ports there. Ashmawy noted that these jars were found resting on a sunken island next to the ship, which indicates that the ship sank after it collided with the island during its commercial voyage. The Central Department of Sunken Antiquities is studying scenarios for dealing with the site’s archaeological finds and ways to safely remove them from the site and preserve them. The mission will complete the underwater excavation work during the season to uncover more of the ship’s secrets.

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will head to N’djamena, capital of Chad, on Sunday to take part in the first meeting of the ministerial mechanism of the Sudan Neighbours Summit held on 13 July in Cairo. The countries neighbouring Sudan held their first meeting in Cairo, stressing the importance of preserving the Sudanese state and its capabilities and preventing its disintegration. The summit’s final communiqué revealed the formation of a ministerial mechanism on the crisis at the level of foreign ministers of neighbouring countries. The communication mechanism is discussing the executive measures required to address the repercussions of the Sudanese crisis on the future, stability, unity and territorial integrity of the Sudan. It will seek maintaining the Sudanese national institutions and preventing their collapse, developing guarantees to reduce the negative effects of the crisis on neighbouring countries, and studying the mechanism of humanitarian and relief assistance to the Sudanese people.

A meeting on the Ukraine crisis began on Saturday in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. A source from the Ukrainian delegation told Al Arabiya News that during the meeting, the 10-point peace plan proposed by Ukraine was backed by several countries. Through the meeting, the Saudi government looks forward to reinforcing dialogue and cooperation at the international level. It also aims to ensure a solution to the crisis through political and diplomatic means and in a way that strengthens international peace and security. Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Eurasian Affairs Li Hui attended the meeting at the invitation of Saudi Arabia.

Banking expert Tarek Metwally explained on Friday that the Central Bank of Egypt’s decision on raising interest rate by 100 basis points – or one percent – in this year’s fifth meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee compensates depositors for the interest rate difference compared to the announced inflation rates. This increase does not mainly fight the announced inflation, he said, pointing out that the total increase in interest rates during the current year amounted to about three percent. Metwally added that after the decision, the variable interest rates on deposits will rise directly by one percent. He ruled out issuing a new high-yield certificate of deposit after CBE’s decision to raise the interest rate by one percent, explaining that raising the interest rate by 100 basis points is not enough to prompt banks to issue new CDs. “Government banks may resort to offering attractive CDs, but private banks will not compete in offering these deposits,” he stated.