Egypt expressed its support on Friday, 24 July, for a joint statement issued by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Jordan condemning recent Iranian attacks, reaffirming its solidarity with Arab states and backing measures to safeguard their security and sovereignty.…
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The Africa Energy Forum (AEF), the continent's longest-running investor gathering, founded in 1999, held its latest edition in Cape Town from 16 to 19 June. The event had originally been…
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Egypt as a Global Operations Hub: How It Got Here, and a Framework for Where It Goes Next
In 2003, a newly established subsidiary of Telecom Egypt called Xceed began its first contact center operations in Cairo, handling customer-facing communications for global companies. Its early contracts were straightforward: inbound voice support, handled in Arabic, English, and French. At the time, India, China, and Malaysia dominated the global outsourcing conversation, with Egypt not even on the map. Twenty three years later, the picture is unrecognizable. Egypt's digital export revenues reached $4.8 billion (252 billion…
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A wave of viral TikTok videos has sparked a heated debate in Egypt: are women getting a worse financial deal…
As the Iran war exposes the fragility of maritime trade, the case for a physical link between Africa and Asia…