VOL. XLI

No. 12

23-March-1998

EGYPT

Egypt States Intention To Privatize Electricity Sector

Following its decision to corporatize the state-owned national telecom company Arento,the Egyptian parliament on 17 March agreed on a draft law to transform the stateelectricity company into a corporation in preparation for eventual privatization.According to the bill presented to parliament, the eight regional electrical distributioncompanies now linked to the state company will become part of the new...