Eritrea, who have no CAF-approved stadium, are technically the home side, but the match is being played on Egyptian soil. South Africa head into it top of Group D after beating Guinea 2-1 on Saturday.

Good afternoon, friends, and happy almost-weekend. Today we look at a small but growing corner of Egyptian agriculture: farmers growing heirloom tomatoes, blueberries, fennel, ...

From heirloom tomatoes and endives to locally grown blueberries, three farms show how a niche business can take very different routes to growth ...

Oman’s real estate sales surged 22.7% y-o-y in 2Q 2026 to OMR 316.9 mn, with one project doing most of the heavy lifting, directly and indirectly. Sultan Haitham City, the national flagship smart-city ...

The EGX30 fell 0.8% at today’s close on turnover of EGP 8.8 bn (23.5% below the 90-day average). Local investors were the sole net ...

Novelist, poet, and member of one of Pakistan’s most turbulent political dynasties, Fatima Bhutto’s life was anything but easy. In her memoir, The Hour of the Wolf, she turns her gaze on herself.

Sabotage cuts Syria’s gas to power plants again, as Damascus builds a fuel transit business for Iraq: Syria’s bet on becoming a transit corridor for Gulf and Iraqi energy depends on securing the east.

Gulf oil producers are running elaborate, expensive workarounds to keep crude moving — Aramco is studying new corridors and stashing barrels overseas, while Iraq is discounting steeply to move its own ...

The Dubai operator and Ogun State signed an MoU to build a USD 7 bn deep-sea port and industrial zone big enough to take ships the congested Lagos corridor can't handle. Qatar's Lesha Bank, meanwhile, ...

The gas shortage didn't disappear — domestic production was falling just as electricity demand climbed, while the war was disrupting the region's usual energy routes. What changed was Egypt's ability ...

Egypt has been spreading the cost across time, currencies, and sectors — and it’s running out of places to put it ...

Mazut, diesel, and crude are all in the mix. None of them is a substitute, and the turbines decide that, not the reserves ...