CAIRO - 2 February 2022: Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly started a tour on Saturday to inspect projects that are being carried out in New Alamein city, accompanied by a number of ministers. Major projects are implemented in New Alamein city including Alamein towers, downtown area, area of universities, heritage city and residential zone. Madbouli said on Saturday that the political leadership attaches great importance to the construction and development processes in the New Alamein city. During an inspection tour of the New Alamein city, the premier listened to a detailed explanation from Minister of Housing Assem el Gazzar on the development projects being established in the city. Gazzar, for his part, said the development projects in the city cover three main sectors, namely facilities, services and construction.

On Thursday, Egypt condemned in the strongest terms a drone attack on the UAE. The UAE Air Force announced it has intercepted and destroyed three drones on Thursday. In a statement from the Foreign Ministry, Egypt affirmed its strong rejection of terrorist violations that undermine the pillars of security and stability in the Arab region. At the same time Egypt also reiterated its full support for the UAE in the measures it takes to protect its security and stability, and the safety of its citizens and residents.

Feb 4 (Reuters) – Stock markets in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) rebounded on Friday, as oil prices touched seven-year highs on fears of supply disruptions. Aldar Properties said on Thursday it planned to invest 1 billion dirhams ($272.29 million) in Aldar Education, its wholly owned subsidiary, and the largest premium school operator in Abu Dhabi . Abu Dhabi index also fell 0.4% for the week. Markets in the UAE shifted to a new Monday-to-Friday working week from the start of 2022 to better align with global markets. ABU DHABI (.FTFADGI) rose 0.1% to 8,733 points DUBAI (.DFMGI) gained 0.6% to 3,171 points($1 = 3.6726 UAE dirham)

(Reuters) -A stunning last-minute strike by substitute Alex Berenguer handed Athletic Bilbao a shock 1-0 win over Real Madrid, eliminating them from the Copa del Rey in the quarter-finals on Thursday. Athletic, who knocked out Barcelona in the previous round, ended a run of three successive defeats by Real in all competitions over the last two months thanks to Berenguer's last-gasp goal. The home team dominated the game from start and piled on the pressure on Real until they finally broke the deadlock in the 89th minute, with Berenguer firing into the right corner of the net. Athletic joined Valencia, Rayo Vallecano and Real Betis in the semi-finals. The draw will take place on Friday with the semi-finals being played over two legs.

CAIRO- 4 February 2022: Egypt would send Lebanon urgent relief aid to face the repercussions it is witnessing recently, announced Egyptian Nevin El-Kabbaj, Vice President of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society and Minister of Social Solidarity on Thursday. The Minister directed the Egyptian Red Crescent and the Ministry to prepare an urgent medical and food aid to Lebanon, according to a statement from the Ministry. The aid includes 100 tons of relief and food items (blankets, mattresses, foodstuffs), and 250 tons of medical supplies (masks and medicines), besides other aid provided by other governmental agencies. The World Bank said in June 2021 that “Lebanon is enduring a severe and prolonged economic depression,” adding “the economic and financial crisis is likely to rank in the top 10, possibly top 3, most severe crises episodes globally since the mid-nineteenth century.”

Wednesday’s drone attack was claimed by little-known “True Promise Brigades”, citing UAE interference in Yemen and Iraq as justification, according to U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group, which follows militant websites. The Houthis had focused cross-border assaults at Saudi Arabia but extended them to the UAE last month after Emirati-backed local forces joined fighting against the group in energy-producing regions. UAE authorities did not immediately respond to a Reuters’ query on the origin of Wednesday’s attack or the group’s claim. Tehran has not directly commented on the UAE attacks but has called for a political solution to the Yemen crisis. The UAE largely reduced its military presence in Yemen in 2019 and has been engaging with Tehran under de-escalation efforts largely driven by economic priorities.

CAIRO – 3 February 2022: The management of the Aswan International Women Film Festival decided to grant the Somali Hibaq Osman the Note Award for achievement in the field of women’s issues, and to honor her at the opening ceremony of the festival's sixth edition that will be held from February 23 to 28. Osman was also appointed as a Senior Fellow at the James MacGregor Burns Leadership Academy, Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Ambassador Mervat el-Talawy noted that Hibaq Osman led the global campaign for justice for the "Women of Comfort" - Korean women forced into sexual slavery during the Japanese occupation in the 1940s - by working with survivors and relatives. Moreover, Osman led a project aimed at initiating the reconciliation process in the Horn of Africa, by bringing together 30 organizations and 60 representatives from across the region. The project brought Somali women from warring clans to work together for the first time.

CAIRO- 3 February 2022: Germany would give Egypt 400,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as a gift on Friday, said ambassador Günter Sautter، the Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, in a meeting with Egyptian Ambassador to Germany Khaled Galal. This gift comes in light of the bilateral relations between both countries, he added, noting that Egypt obtained nearly 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Germany, either through the bilateral framework or through the COVAX facility. Earlier this month, Egypt received 667,100 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from Belgium and Germany via COVAX in cooperation with GAVI Alliance, said Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the Health Ministry spokesman in a statement. This 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. On January 28, 2022, the Cairo International Airport received 4 million coronavirus vaccine doses from the United Kingdom, British Ambassador to Egypt Gareth Bayley said.

The Al-Azhar’s newspaper Sawt Al-Azhar (Voice of Al-Azhar) page on Facebook published part of an interview with the Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb that took place in 2019, talking about Al-Azhar’s position on wife-beating and beating others in general, after the issue was recently raised. The page said that it published “the part that MBC Masr did not want to broadcast”, while discussing the issue of beating, especially wife beating, and Al-Azhar’s position on it. “I hope to live until I see that beating an Arab Muslim is a crime, and the one who hits is punished like a criminal,” he added. There is no such thing as beating with conditions with the aim of discipline, and there is no such thing as beating with a Miswak,” he continued. Editor-in-chief of “Sawt Al-Azhar” newspaper, Ahmed al-Sawy, responded to the statements of the President of the National Council for Women, Maya Morsy, where she attacked Tayeb.

Dani Alves was left out of Barcelona's squad for the Europa League knockout stage as coach Xavi Hernandez decided to include new signings Ferran Torres, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Adama Traore instead, the club announced on Wednesday. Torres, Traore and Aubameyang all arrived in the January transfer window. Torres left Manchester City to join Barcelona for a fee of around 55 million euros ($62.30 million), with a further 10 million euros in add-ons. Speedy Spain winger Adama Traore arrived this week on loan from Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers until the end of the season. Aubameyang completed his move to Barcelona on a free transfer after terminating his contract with Arsenal on Wednesday.

South Korea on Tuesday signed a contract to sell K9 self-propelled howitzers to Egypt in a deal worth over US$1.65 billion, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on Wednesday. South Korean manufacturer Hanwha Defense signed an agreement with Egypt’s defense minstry for the largest K9 export deal in Cairo’s Artillery House military facility, capping off 10 years of intermittent talks. The deal will see the production of K9s produced in Egypt and technology transfer affording to the to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA). The DAPA did not elaborate on details such as when the K9 howitzers will be supplied to Egypt and at what quantity. The deal makes Egypt the eighth foreign country to adopt the K9, joining Turkey, Poland, India, Norway, Finland, Estonia, and Australia.

The operations dubbed “Winter Eagle” were aimed against Turkey’s insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq, which Ankara says has hideouts there, and the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces known as People’s Protection Units, or YPG in Syria. The YPG is a close U.S. ally against the Islamic State group but is labeled a terrorist group by Ankara because of its ties to the PKK. The strikes aimed to “eliminate terrorist threats against our people and security forces from the north of Iraq and Syria and to ensure our border security,” the ministry statement read. The Observatory reported another Turkish drone strike at a power station a day earlier near the Semalka border crossing between Syria and Iraq’s Kurdish region. The group is considered a terror organization by Turkey and its allies, including the United States and the European Union.

The head of the Suez Canal Authority Osama Rabie, announced on Tuesday that the navigation movement in the vital waterway during January 2022 made unprecedented records. He explained that the figures that were achieved came in terms of the number of ships, net tonnages and the revenues achieved to become the highest compared to the performance rates achieved during the successive months of January throughout the history of the canal. Rabie indicated that the Suez Canal witnessed the crossing of 1774 ships from both directions during January 2022, compared to the crossing of 1594 ships during January 2021, with a total net tonnage of 106.1 million tons, compared to 104.2 million tons during January 2021. He explained that the regularity of navigation movement in the canal had a great impact on increasing the total revenues achieved, as the authority’s revenues during January 2022 recorded about US$ 544.7 million, excluding navigation services, compared to US$ 495.7 million during the same month of last year, an increase of US$ 49 million at 9.9 percent. Rabie added that the navigational reports during January 2022 monitored a significant increase in the transit rates of various types of ships compared to the same month of last year, as the number of bulk vessels increased by 25.1 percent, and container ships transiting the canal increased by 11.5 percent.

Memory of the day: Egypt, Syria sign the Charter of Arab Unity in 1958CAIRO – 1 February 2022: In the following lines, ET sheds light on the most important world events that took place on February 1. 1877 - Isaac Burgess and William Longstreet receive a patent for the first steamboat in the United States. 1881 - The arrest of Ahmed Orabi and his companions after the British entered Cairo. 1958 - Syria and Egypt sign the Charter of Arab Unity between the two countries under the name of the United Arab Republic. 2008 - The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al- Maktoum, appoints his son Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum as the crown prince of Dubai.

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