“We have a great responsibility towards Egypt. It is a great thing to have a visionary leader and strong-willed people. The nation, the leader and the people must join hands to build our country.” ...
These were the words of Prime Minister Ibrahim
Mahlab at the closing ceremony of the Egypt Economic Development Conference
(EEDC) which was held on 13-15 March in the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh
to draw direly needed investment and aid to Egypt.
The country’s economy took a nosedive in the
wake of the Arab Spring uprising in January 2011 and the subsequent Islamist
rise to power.
On 30 June 2013 a 33-million-strong peaceful
revolution by the Egyptian public was supported by the army, led by the then
Supreme Commander General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and, on 3 July 2013 the Islamist
Muslim Brotherhood regime was overthrown.
Egypt embarked on
political and economic reform through a Roadmap jointly charted on 3 July 2013
by representatives of all the sectors of the Egyptian community and the
military.
Now the country has a new Constitution, the
moderate secular Sisi was elected President by a landslide, and parliamentary
elections are upcoming.
And, as clearly revealed by the EEDC, Egypt is bent on getting its economy up and running .. more informatian | wataninet
