Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has stressed the government’s commitment to strengthening social protection, improving coordination among government policies and programmes, and ensuring the efficient allocation of resources to meet citizens’ basic needs, particularly those of the most vulnerable groups.

The prime minister made these remarks during a meeting held to review preparations for the session entitled ‘Regulating Markets and a More Effective Social Protection System’, as part of the Egypt Forum 2026, scheduled to begin on Monday and run until October 24 in the New Administrative Capital.

Egypt, Japan probe ways to advance technical education co-operation

The Minister of Education and Technical Education, Mohamed Abdel Latif, met on Sunday with the Chief Executive Officer of Japan’s Kyoto Eikokan educational group, Hidetaka Matsuo, and a delegation from Kyoto University of Nursing and Health Sciences to discuss strengthening bilateral co-operation in technical education and advancing the implementation of a joint agreement to develop Egyptian technical schools.

The agreement provides for the transformation of 20 technical schools into international applied technology schools specialising in nursing, elderly care and information technology.

Egypt advances local vaccine production, access to innovative treatments

The Ministry of Health and Population has held a high-level meeting with a delegation from global biopharmaceutical company Pfizer to explore opportunities for strengthening pharmaceutical security, localising critical industries and advancing healthcare cooperation in Egypt.

The meeting was attended by Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Pfizer Regional President for the Middle East, Russia and Africa Rodrigo Luis Puga, and Regional Manager for Egypt, Sudan, the Levant and Iraq Amr Seif.

‘US resumes intelligence-sharing with Ukraine after pause’

The United States has resumed providing Ukraine with critical intelligence to ‌help defend against Russian missile strikes after a brief pause, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in comments published ⁠on Sunday.

Ukraine has relied on US intelligence to spot the fast-moving ballistic missiles that Russia has fired in waves at its cities.

US wants Israel to ‘crack down’ on settler violence in West Bank

The United States wants Israel to do more to deter attacks committed by settlers in the West Bank, ‌US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday.

“We’re very disturbed by those images and what we’re seeing,” Rubio said. “We’ve asked the Israelis and continue to ask them to crack down on that stuff.”