Last Night’s Talk Shows: Private sector involvement in national projects + Rulings in prominent court cases
The private sector will soon account for 75-80% of national projects and investment, Ala Mas’ouleety’s Ahmed Moussa claimed last night (watch, runtime: 4:25), praising state efforts to increase the role of the private sector in national projects and improve the investment climate generally.
MEANWHILE- The Prosecutor General’s Office has ruled there was no criminal involvement in the death of economics researcher Ayman Hadhoud, saying that he died of chronic heart disease. Hadhoud died in early March at Abbasiya Mental Health Hospital after reportedly being detained by government agents a month earlier. One of Hadhoud’s brothers had said that he was under stress due to financial pressure, Al Masry Al Youm Deputy Editor-in-Chief Yousry El Badri told El Hekaya’s Amr Adib (watch, runtime: 4:07). Adib also gave some airtime to the reduction of TikTok influencer Haneen Hossam’s prison sentence to three years from ten years (watch, runtime: 3:15).