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EBRD Lends Egypt €205 Million for Rehabilitation of Cairo Metro

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced a €205 million loan to Egypt to help the transports authority rehabilitate Cairo Metro, the major means of public transport in the Egyptian capital. The funds will finance urgent works on Line 1 – the oldest of the Cairo underground lines – which remains the […]

Nearly 200,000 passengers flew in or out of Morocco aboard 1,857 flights from June 15 to 21 (ONDA)

The Kingdom’s airports received, during the week from June 15 to 21, 195,547 passengers and 1,857 air flights (international arrivals and departures), according to the National Airports Office (ONDA). Casablanca-Mohammed V airport, the Kingdom’s leading airport platform, received more than 43% of this overall number, with 762 flights carrying around 84,100 passengers, followed by that […]

DRC’s protests: 15 people killed in Congo’s east amid anti-UN demonstrations

The death toll following the protests against a United Nations peacekeeping force in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo this Tuesday (26 July) rose to 15. Three members of the MONUSCO mission and at least 12 protesters were killed in two cities of the North Kivu province, according to a UN spokesperson and the Congolese government. […]