This Week in Egypt: Week 9-2023 ( Feb 27- March 5)


Top Headlines

  • 4,500-year-old chamber discovered inside Great Pyramid in Egypt
  • Egypt’s FM Shoukry visits Syria, Turkey in renewed earthquake diplomacy
  • Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin to visit Israel, Jordan, and Egypt
  • Egypt’s net foreign assets decline by $1.7 billion in January, but rose slightly in February. 
  • Egypt increases fuel prices for various octanes by EGP 0.75 to EGP 1 per litre

Main Headlines

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

  • Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin to visit Israel, Jordan, and Egypt
  • Egypt raises minimum wage for government employees to EGP 3,500 & pensions by 15% as of 1 April
  • Egypt increases fuel prices for various octanes by EGP 0.75 to EGP 1 per litre
  • Egypt sends more relief aid to quake-hit Syria and Turkey

Friday

  • 4,500-year-old chamber discovered inside Great Pyramid in Egypt
  • Saudi FM meets with Egyptian counterpart on the sidelines of a G20 meeting  
  • Egypt condemned on Friday an Israeli minister’s call to “wipe out” the Palestinian village of Huwara

Saturday

  • Germany is keen to import more LNG from Egypt: Ambassador Hartmann

Sunday

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