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World
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International
1/21/2025 12:44:39 PM
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), a body he has repeatedly criticized over its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Business
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Economy
10/16/2024 9:26:34 PM
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a survey of prospects and policies on Wednesday detailing a significant inflationary episode that has unfolded over the past three years, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are the key takeaways from the report:
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Business
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Economy
10/2/2024 2:38:56 PM
Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly announced Tuesday that Egypt's economy recorded an average GDP growth of 4.3 percent over the past four years, demonstrating resilience amid a series of global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza.
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Business
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Economy
9/18/2024 9:15:35 PM
The US Federal Reserve cut its key lending rate by half a percentage-point Wednesday in its first reduction since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, sharply lowering borrowing costs shortly before November's presidential election.
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Business
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Economy
7/7/2024 2:49:09 PM
Egypt's net international reserves (NIRs) rose to $46,3 billion at the end of June, the highest level since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in March 2020, up from $46.1 posted a month earlier, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced on Sunday.
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Sports
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Omni sports
4/26/2024 11:09:10 AM
Two athletes sharing Olympic gold in a near-empty stadium in Tokyo caught the imagination of an expectant audience across the world, which was at the time ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Opinion
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4/18/2024 7:56:23 PM
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the developing world has faced growing public-sector debt vulnerabilities.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Living
4/16/2024 8:56:58 PM
Nader Habib talks to cyclist Amr Selim about what he has learned on his bicycle trips around Egypt and the region
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Business
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Economy
3/14/2024 11:16:05 AM
Many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the poorest are not and a significant number are seeing their conditions deteriorate, the U.N. Development Program said late Wednesday.
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Business
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Economy
12/31/2023 2:07:47 PM
The Egyptian government is set to continue improving wage levels in 2024 to alleviate the financial burdens faced by citizens since the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and amid subsequent geopolitical tensions, Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait said on Sunday.
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Business
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Economy
11/28/2023 4:10:27 PM
The African Development Bank (AfDB) approved a $131 million loan to Egypt with the aim of bolstering the government’s efforts to stimulate the private sector and diversify its green development following the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
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World
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International
9/13/2023 11:14:28 AM
The Covid-19 pandemic caused a sharp slowdown in the fight to end child poverty, with 333 million children still living in extreme poverty, according to a report published Wednesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
6/6/2023 8:40:20 PM
Is there a link between the war in Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the “golden billion theory” that seeks to reduce the world’s population, asks Kirellos Abdelmalak
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Egypt
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Tourism
6/5/2023 5:05:32 PM
Egypt received a record-breaking 1.35 million tourists in April 2023, marking a significant milestone for the country’s tourism sector that has been recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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Sports
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World
5/30/2023 4:56:44 PM
Juventus will pay a fine of more than 700,000 euros ($751,000) for lying about players foregoing wages during the Covid-19 pandemic but escaped a new Serie A points deduction in a plea bargain approved Tuesday by the Italian Football Federation tribunal.
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Business
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Economy
5/30/2023 3:33:10 PM
Elon Musk met China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Beijing on Tuesday, the ministry said, on the Tesla CEO's first trip to the country since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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World
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International
5/3/2023 11:40:01 AM
More than a quarter-billion people in 58 countries faced acute food insecurity last year due to conflicts, climate change, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, according to a report published Wednesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
4/20/2023 2:31:34 PM
Nearly 13 million children missed one or more vaccinations in Africa between 2019 and 2021 because of the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving the continent vulnerable to even more outbreaks of disease and facing a “child survival crisis,” a new report from UNICEF said Thursday.
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Business
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Economy
4/12/2023 2:37:35 PM
Global government debt is on track to reach levels not seen since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Wednesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
4/11/2023 9:27:47 PM
Mia Amor Mottley and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ask what a just industrial strategy might look like
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