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The Mowgli Foundation Newsletter Update – the ‘February’ edition

Welcome to the ‘February’ edition of our fortnightly newsletter So far this year, we’ve had a series of natural disasters in the form of flooding, cyclone and forest fires and we’ve had revolution in Tunisia and Egypt as a result … Continue reading

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According to CNN, the current turmoil in Egypt is driven by a lack of jobs and the high levels of poverty in the country.  Statistics show that 50% of men and 90% of women are still without employment two years … Continue reading

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It’s time to re-evaluate risk in the Middle East. This article in Business Daily Africa discusses the impact of security on the perception of business risk.  What is also considers is that although there may be an immediate impact as … Continue reading

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Politics and business in the Middle East

According to lots of tweets on Twitter today “Israel changes its relationship status with Egypt on Facebook to “It’s complicated”. Lebanon, Syria & Palestine ‘like’ it”. It’s important to bear in mind that politics in any sense of the word … Continue reading

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Mowgli Foundation welcomes ADEW Egypt

After starting the relationship online via Twitter primarily, I am really pleased to let you know that discussions are going really well and that both ADEW and the Mowgli Foundation are looking forward to working together more closely in the future and to campaigning to reduce poverty in Egypt. As the most recent Twitter conversation said @MowgliTweets We are excited about working with you! Hopefully we can alleviate #poverty together in #Egypt Find out More

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Women's business groups and social networking – are they better than men? (#ADEW)

The ADEW – The Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women – was the only one of twelve business and support groups in the Middle East that are present on social networks and they are women – all the others were men’s group and of those only two had a presence in one other place, which was Facebook as it happens. Find out More

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