Egypt

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

Opella Egypt is scaling up its commitment to the local market with total investments of approximately EGP 1bn over the past decade, as the global self-care giant doubles down on local manufacturing, portfolio expansion, and youth development while ruling out an immediate stock market listing. The company, which serves an estimated 15 to 20 million

Egypt and Kenya have explored ways to expand cooperation in healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry, as Egyptian Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar took part in the Global Health Summit Nairobi. According to Egypt’s health ministry, Abdel Ghaffar led the country’s official delegation to the summit, which focuses on digital health transformation...

Egypt’s Health Ministry highlighted the importance of investing in nursing staff and expanding training programs during celebrations marking International Nurses Day, held under the slogan “Supporting nurses saves lives.” Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar emphasized that nursing staff represent one of the main pillars of Egypt’s healthcare system...

Mohamed Farid, Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade, said Egypt is actively working to enable Czech pension funds to access investment opportunities in the local market, as part of broader efforts to deepen economic cooperation with the Czech Republic. His remarks came during an expanded meeting with Ivan Jukl, Czech Ambassador to Cairo, and Ondřej

Egypt announced that first-time mothers will be able to give birth naturally for free in public hospitals to make childbirth safer and less expensive for families, according to the Ministry of Health and Population on Wednesday, 6 May.  Health officials want to encourage natural births instead of caesarean sections (C-sections), which are common in Egypt.

Egypt’s private sector investments surged by 73% during the previous fiscal year and continued to grow at a rate of 42% in the first quarter of the current year, Finance Minister Ahmed Kouchouk said on Monday. Speaking at an Alexandria Businessmen’s Association (ABA) event, Kouchouk stated that the “bet on the private sector” to drive

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Monday in Jeddah, coming as part of President Sisi’s fraternal visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.   Reception and fraternal ties The Official Spokesperson for the Egyptian Presidency stated that