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FIRST Lady Janet Museveni yesterday held discussions with the Secretary General of the Egyptian Fund for Technical Co-operation, Nevine Ashmawi, at State House in Kampala.

The World Bank has debarred a German engineering company from Bank-backed contracts for seven years for its role in corruption involving an African water project, but Bank watchdog groups say the move is long overdue.

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Egyptian authorities to stop harassing reporter Howayda Taha of the pan-Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera, who was arrested on 28 January 2008 together with her cameraman while doing a report on farm workers in Nikla, a village near Giza (20 km southwest of Cairo).

ORASCOM, one of Egypt's successful telecommunications company has dismissed rumours that it is for sale. According Mr Hassan Kabbani, as long as Algeria remains an emerging economy ICTs will remain central to its development so the sale of ORASCOM is out of the question, he said.

The crew of TV1, an Egyptian Television station covering the ongoing 26th African Cup of Nations in Ghana was on January 25, 2008 attacked by some players of the Desert Hawks, the Sudanese national team.

The crew of TV1, an Egyptian television station covering the ongoing 26th African Cup of Nations in Ghana, was on 25 January 2008 attacked by some players of the Desert Hawks, the Sudanese national team.

Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will on Sunday depart from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Cairo, Egypt. She is scheduled to hold discussions with Egyptian officials on commitment to consolidate bilateral political, economic and trade relations between the two countries.

Group C qualification outcome played out to prediction but not order.

A third submarine internet cable is severed in the Middle East, compounding global net problems.

Three people are killed in an explosion in the southern Israeli town of Dimona, medics say.