Egyptian women’s empowerment project attracts USD 8 mn in US funding: USAID has invested USD 8 mn over the past eight years in the Safe Cities project, which aims to prevent violence against women and girls, US Chargé D’Affaires Nicole Shampaine announced during an event to celebrate the completion of the project. The agency “laid the foundation for policy reforms, service provision, and national advocacy efforts to criminalize harassment for the first time in Egypt’s history,” she said.

Twenty-one Egyptian banks rank in African Business’ Africa’s Top 100 Banks in 2021, which ranks financial institutions by Tier 1 capital. The National Bank of Egypt comes second in the list, Banque Misr in eighth, and CIB climbing to the 11th slot. New entrants are Egypt’s Emirates National Bank of Dubai at 61 and Egyptian Gulf Bank at 78.

Mohamed Abo-Elgheit received the Excellence in Journalism award presented by the Heikal Foundation for Arab Journalism. Abo-Elgheit was recognized for his investigative reporting on Syria. Abo-Elgheit thanked the foundation’s board members and expressed his appreciation for receiving the award in a tweet. The awards are held annually on 23 September, the anniversary of the late Mohamed Hassanein Heikal’s birth.

Eastern Company donated EGP 4 mn to the Tahya Misr Fund to provide covid-19 vaccines, the company announced in a statement (pdf).