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15Aug

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Art, Egypt News

Santiago Ribeiro exhibit at “Assembly of Arts in Egypt” (21-29 August 2024)

The artist Santiago Ribeiro will participate in the ART FESTIVAL in AFRICA from August 21 to 29 in Cairo. It is the Portuguese artist's first time in Cairo and Africa. The present painting will be Industrial of Apples. Industrial of Apples, oil on canvas, 30x50 cm, 2012, Santiago Ribeiro José Manuel Santiago Ribeiro was born in Coimbra. He shared his childhood and youth between the rural and religious environment of the village of Condeixa, where he lived, and the academic, secular, "avan-garde", revolutionary University City of Coimbra, where he was studying. He attended Avelar Brotero Comprehensive School in Coimbra, where he finished his Technical Course of Arts and Crafts. In 2006 he joined a Higher Education School, also in Coimbra. He organized and participated in n...

TCI Signs Agreement To Build And Operate Egypt’s First Bulk Cement Export Silo Terminal With Sinai White Portland Cement Company

30Nov

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Business, Egypt News

TCI Signs Agreement To Build And Operate Egypt’s First Bulk Cement Export Silo Terminal With Sinai White Portland Cement Company

[Cairo, November] – Transcargo International, TCI, a veteran terminal operator in Egypt, announces the signing of an agreement with Sinai White Portland Cement, SWCC, for the development of Egypt’s first bulk cement silos in Arish Port, marking a significant milestone in the cement industry in Egypt and its export capabilities. SWCC, a subsidiary of the world's largest white cement manufacturer, Aalborg Portland Group, controlled by Cementir Holding N.V., the leading producer of white cement globally, operating one of the world's largest white cement plants in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. Under the terms of the commercial agreement, TCI will build and operate white cement silos terminal with an annual capacity exceeding 200,000 tons for SWCC, facilitating the export of the company's pro...

3Dec

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African News, Egypt News, Ethiopia News, South Africa News

Global Cities Report – Five strategic imperatives for city leaders

Last year’s edition of the Kearney Annual Global Cities report provided a revealing overview of urban centres amid the unprecedented public health catastrophe of the COVID-19 outbreak. A stark snapshot was painted of a volatile, increasingly fragmented environment characterized by fierce competition among cities for status, a situation acutely exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. “The 2020 report provided a perspective on where the world was just before the impact of COVID-19 was felt. In this year’s report, the data used—largely collected from 2020 and early 2021 publications—provides a view of the impact of the first year of the pandemic. It also sheds light on the different recovery trajectories across the world’s global cities,” says Prashaen Reddy, a partner at global managemen...

16Apr

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Botswana News, Egypt News, Main, Mauritius News, Morocco News, South Africa News

Competition law in post-pandemic Africa a key driver for market participation, consumer protection and fair practices

With the growth of economies across Africa, competition law has remained one of the key drivers for effective market participation, consumer protection and fair business practices. However, the global pandemic introduced new challenges for competition authorities in Africa and abroad, with each enforcer pursuing the most beneficial enforcement method for its national or regional jurisdiction. According to Lerisha Naidu, Partner in Baker McKenzie’s Competition & Antitrust Practice in Johannesburg, “These efforts were aimed at curbing the persistence of unjustified price hikes, anticompetitive cooperation between competitors and other harmful business practices that sought to undermine competition. In addition to the urgent responses to the unprecedented impacts of the global COVID-19 c...

Orange Business Services to design and build cloud-based ICT infrastructure for Egypt’s newest smart city

9Feb

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Egypt News, Tech

Orange Business Services to design and build cloud-based ICT infrastructure for Egypt’s newest smart city

- Selected as master system integrator to deliver a new data center, offering critical cloud and smart services - Supports Orange Egypt – the prime contractor – in a multimillion Euro project to develop part of the New Administrative Capital Orange Business Services, a network-native digital services company, has announced that it will design and build a new data center to provide cloud services for Egypt’s ‘New Administrative Capital'. The project will be implemented in collaboration with Orange Egypt, who will supply the required infrastructure and services, following their appointment as the project’s prime contractor by Administrative Capital for Urban Development (ACUD) – owner and developer of the New Administrative Capital. The ACUD project has been designed as a smart sustainable...