Soon after a court returned Omar Effendi to the public sector, a landmark court verdict last week suspended the privatisation contracts of another three companies. Mona El-Fiqi reports

The Middle East and North Africa economies (MENA) have challenging work ahead especially in an increasingly complicated global economy, Niveen Wahish reports

In a blurred political scene, vague economic policies were last week accompanied by international and regional capital markets lethargy. Sherine Abdel-Razek looks at how the market is reacting to this handful of negative factors