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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
9/4/2024 12:20:00 PM
Egypt has sent a letter to the UN in response to Ethiopia’s insistence on completing construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam within three months.
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Egypt
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Health
9/2/2024 12:02:00 AM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi directed the government on Sunday to expand the health insurance umbrella to cover 8.5 million more citizens, including beneficiaries of the Takaful and Karama program and informal workers in the construction sector.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/1/2024 3:18:42 PM
Orascom Construction (OC) announced Sunday that its consortium with UK's Colas Rail and Japan's Hitachi Rail has signed an 800 million euro contract with Egypt's National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) to modernize Cairo Metro Line 1.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/28/2024 12:00:20 PM
US President Joe Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza earlier this year even as some staffers for the U.S. Agency for International Development expressed concerns that the effort would be difficult to pull off and undercut the effort to persuade Israel to open “more efficient” land crossings to get food into the territory, according to a USAID inspector general report published Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/22/2024 10:56:27 PM
Cairo has rejected an Israeli proposal to construct eight watchtowers as well as an American proposal to build two towers on the 14-kilometre Philadelphi corridor along the border between Egypt and Gaza, insisting on complete Israeli withdrawal, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday
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World
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Region
8/16/2024 4:45:41 PM
Dubai’s economy is buzzing with tourism and construction as it positions itself as a safe haven in a region that's resting on a knife’s edge following Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran.
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Business
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Economy
8/1/2024 3:59:01 PM
Egyptian Petrochemicals Holding Company (ECHEM), Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals Co. (SIDPEC), Egyptian Natural Gas Company (GASCO), and Gama Construction signed on Thursday a shareholders’ agreement to establish the Alexandria Supply Chain Company.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
7/30/2024 4:55:32 PM
Heavily indebted Egyptian state-owned Metal Construction Company, Metalco, is set to undergo liquidation after years of mounting financial losses, its general assembly announced following an extraordinary meeting on Friday.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
7/29/2024 9:30:33 PM
Hassan Allam Holding announced Sunday that its subsidiary Hassan Allam Construction Saudi, in partnership with El Seif Engineering Contracting and China Harbour Engineering Arabia, has won an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for the port of NEOM in Oxagon in northwest Saudi Arabia.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
7/24/2024 4:55:25 PM
Giza governorate announced Wednesday shutting down part of the heavily trafficked 26th of July Road in both directions, effective Thursday’s midnight.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/3/2024 9:34:50 AM
An anti-settlement watchdog group says Israeli authorities are scheduled to approve or advance the construction of over 6,000 new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank in the coming days.
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Business
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Energy
7/2/2024 7:22:36 PM
Five Egyptian companies announced plans to form a consortium with a capital of $663 million to import liquefied ethane gas (Shale gas), according to a disclosure from Sidi Kerir Petrochemicals Company (SIDPEC) to the Egyptian bourse revealed on Monday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
6/25/2024 7:38:00 PM
Zahi Hawass describes the history of royal pyramid construction in the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom.
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World
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Africa
5/17/2024 7:55:51 PM
An exhaustive rescue operation to find missing construction workers trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in South Africa will end on Friday after nearly two weeks and with 19 people still unaccounted for, authorities said.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/8/2024 12:40:16 PM
The US military has completed construction of its Gaza aid pier, but weather conditions mean it is currently unsafe to move the two-part facility into place, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
5/2/2024 10:42:00 PM
Al-Ahram Weekly investigates the reasons behind the recent waning demand in Egypt’s real-estate market.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
4/26/2024 12:49:27 PM
The US military has begun construction on a pier meant to boost deliveries of desperately needed aid to Gaza, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
4/23/2024 10:42:27 PM
The United States will begin construction "very soon" on a pier to boost deliveries of desperately needed aid to Gaza, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
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Business
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Economy
3/20/2024 7:08:16 PM
French construction materials group Saint-Gobain laid on Wednesday the foundation for its third glass factory within Egypt’s Al-Ain Al-Sokhna Industrial Zone, northwest of the Gulf of Suez. The company plans to invest approximately €175 million in the project.
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Sports
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Omni sports
3/14/2024 11:41:00 AM
This year's Paris Olympics will use renewable energy, serve lots of vegetarian meals and heavily restrict plastic bottles, but can an event involving so much construction and international travel ever be environmentally sustainable?
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