Liberia’s Information Minister Lewis Brown Tuesday received a 15-member delegation of the Egyptian Culture Troupe, visiting here. In a chart with members of the troupe at his office on Capitol Hill, Monrovia, Minister Brown expressed the Government of Liberia delight in receiving the Egyptian Culture Troupe in the country
“Un Enfant, Des Sourires” (UEDS – or One Child, Many Smiles), a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the needs of disadvantaged children, will organize a caravan to provide medical supplies and treatment to children attending three rural schools in Ain Dhrahem. This initiative, entitled “Inshallah Labess” – “God willing everything will be alright” in Tunisian Arabic – will embark on the road to Ain Dhrahem in two days. The members of the caravan are scheduled to visit three underprivileged schools – Ouled Dhifallah, Zwitina, and Ouled Khmissa – located near the Algerian border in Tunisia’s mountainous northwestern region
Clashes erupted today between Salafists and students affiliated with the the student union at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Manouba, following an altercation that ensued yesterday between two female students wearing the niqab – a veil revealing only the eyes – and the dean. Demonstrators, mainly Salafists, gathered in front of the administration building in protest of yesterday’s incident, and demanded the right for female students to wear the niqab during classes and exams. As the situation on the campus escalated, one of the Salafist students replaced the Tunisian flag with a black flag bearing the shahada – the Islamic declaration of faith
Minister of Tourism Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour announced that there are positive indications to improve the Egyptian economy, which is expected to grow by 3.5%, despite the difficulties, confirming that the restoration of security in all cities and governorates in Egypt will lead to stability speedily and the return of political, economic and social stability. Copyright © 2012 Egypt State Information Service.
Counselor Farouk Sultan, Head of the Presidential Elections Committee and Supreme Constitutional Court, announced the opening door of candidacy for presidential elections next Saturday 10/3/2012 until 8/4/2012, where the candidates papers will be received at the headquarter of the presidential elections committee. Copyright © 2012 Egypt State Information Service. All rights reserved.
Minister of Finance Momtaz el-Saeed said an agreement has been reached on launching an urgent plan to salvage the Egyptian economy during the coming 18 months. Emerging from a meeting held on Tuesday 6/3/2012, el-Saeed said that the 14 point that agreed on during the meeting including rationalizing spending, reviewing subsidies system, reviewing taxation system without imposing new taxes, restructuring the public debt, attracting new investments, and achieving security in order to back up economy. He said an agreement was reached on continuing negotiations with international corporations and foreign and Arab countries on the proposed financial assistance.
Bank of Uganda has announced the return of Tropical Bank ltd to its majority shareholders, the Libyan Foreign Bank. The central Bank of Uganda took over control of the bank in March last year when the United Nations imposed a freeze on the assets of the government of Libya and associated entities, including the Libyan foreign bank, the majority shareholder of Tropical Bank. This came as a result of a hefty war that swept the country and later led to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi’s government.
The Egyptian authorities should drop the charges against 43 workers with nongovernmental organizations who are charged with operating “unlicensed” groups under a repressive law, Human Rights Watch said today.
The Seventh World Environmental Education Congress will be held in Marrakech (Morocco) from 9 to 14 June 2013.
Head of the ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF)’s Advisory Council, Mansour Hassan, has officially announced his intention to run for president. The 75-year old former Information Minister told the state’s Middle East News Agency that details of his bid will be announced later today. Speculation that Hassan would run for president has circulated widely within the past couple of months
