Egypt

THE COMPANY: Telecom Egypt (TE) is Egypt’s incumbent telecommunications operator, controlling the country’s only fixed-line network, with 8m subscribers as of the end of 2011. It participates in the mobile sector by providing interconnectivity to operators via its infrastructure and through a 44.95% stake...

THE COMPANY: SODIC operates as a master developer of residential properties, as well as commercial and retail projects, targeting the upper-middle to high-end segments. It has a 6m-sq-metre land bank in Egypt, distributed over eastern Cairo (Eastown), western Cairo (Westown), and the Alexandria Desert...

Efforts to boost industrial output, which were gathering momentum prior to Egypt’s political unrest of 2011, are more than an attempt to simply bolster GDP growth. A persistently high unemployment rate, which grew to 9% in 2010, according to Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS), and reached 12.4% in 2011, has made...

Petrochemicals are a central feature of Egypt’s industrial strategy, making up about 3% of GDP. The sector first began to grow in the early 1950s, when ammonia was generated from surplus fuel from the country’s refineries. By 2010 the industry had grown to 86 companies, 15 of which operate in one of Egypt’s export-oriented free zones. Both the...

Given its pivotal location at the nexus of Africa and Asia, Egypt’s past is inextricably bound with transport. At this historical moment of transition in Egypt, all eyes are on the future and efforts are afoot to enhance transport’s role as a vital sector of the economy.

It took no less than 59 years and 16 months for Egyptians to finally exercise the right to freely elect a national leader. In that regard, the popular uprising of 2011 has already delivered more than the Free Officers’ coup of 1952. But with the roles of the military and the presidency still undefined, Egyptians must still wait to see if their...