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Morocco’s Omar Hilale Elected Vice-President of ECOSOC

Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN in New York, Ambassador Omar Hilale was elected vice-president of the Economic and Social Council. The 54-member council, which serves as the principal organ for the socioeconomic and related work of the UN, elected Inga Rhonda King as its new president. The appointment of Omar Hilale vice-president of ECOSOC […]

Egypt: Cairo Hosts High-Level Talks to Reinforce Gaza Ceasefire Implementation

Cairo on Tuesday, November 25, convened a pivotal meeting of mediators and guarantors of the Gaza ceasefire to accelerate coordination with the United States ahead of the agreement’s second phase. The session, reported by Al-Qahera News, brought together Egypt’s intelligence chief Hassan Rashad, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, and Turkish intelligence […]

Egypt: reforming the financial sector before 2014

Chairman Sherif Samy of the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority (EFSA) has stated that the financial sector will be revised before the end of the year in order to ease and fasten the transactions. Capital markets in Egypt suffered deeply from the revolution which began in 2011 forcing several foreign portfolio managers to withdraw their money […]