EGYPT

USAID Helps with Seismic Survey of Upper Egypt 

The US Agency for International Develpment (USAID) will shortly invite bids for a seismic survey of the Assiut and Qena provinces and Wadi Bizah (southeast of Aswan) in Upper Egypt, with the possibility of a follow-up project to study the areas extending to Egypt's western and southern borders. The contract, worth over $2mn, is a grant from USAID, with bidding restricted to US and Egyptian firms. It is the third of four USAID...