Beni Suef

(bĕ`– swāf) or

Bani Suwayf

(bä`nē), city (1986 pop. 152,476), capital of Beni Suef governorate, N central Egypt, on the Nile River. Situated in an intensely cultivated farming region, Beni Suef has cotton mills and sugar refineries. Alabaster is quarried near the city.

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These regions include North Beni Suef,West Fayoum, Southeast Siwa, Northwest El Amal in Gulf of Suez, Southeast Horus, South Abu Sinan, West Kalabsha block in Western Desert, Northeast El Amreya offshore block and East Damanhour onshore block.

Cabinet Approves New Regulations for Oil, Gas Exploration

Cleopatra Hospital Group, signed on Sunday a joint venture (JV) agreement with Nahda University for Education and Management and Taaleem for Management Services, the operators of Nahda University in Beni Suef, to renovate and operate CHG 's first hospital in the Beni Suef governorate (Nahda Hospital in Beni Suef).

JV between CHG, Nahda University, and Taaleem to expand Nahda Hospital

The company, Perma-Pipe Egypt, is in the process of establishing a new production facility in Beni Suef, south of Cairo.

Perma-Pipe to establish new facility in Egypt

FILE -- Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar CAIRO -- 28 March 2019: Egypt's Beni Suef University and Libya's University of Benghazi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in the field of education and scientific research.

Beni Suef, Benghazi universities sign MoU in education, research

Speaking at Beni Suef University, Ricciardone remarked on the amazing development of the Province since his last visitseveral decades ago.

AUC, Usaid and Beni-Suef University Celebrate the Launch of Beni-Suef University Center for Career Development

Deutsche Bank, HSBC and KfW IPEX-Bank have jointly structured and arranged the Hermes-underwritten financing for the Beni Suef, Burullus and New Capital Cogas plants in Egypt.

Egypt Cogas plants secure $3.9bn financing

In November 2015, the loan agreement was signed for the first project in Beni Suef. March 2016 then saw the financial close for the other two power plants, Burullus and New Capital.

COGAS power plants for Egypt: three banks to structure and arrange EUR 3.5 billion in financing

On Sunday, the consortium signed a EGP10bn agreement with the electricity sector to establish three power plants in the new administrative capital, Kafr El Sheikh and Beni Suef. The three power plants will produce a total of 14,400 megawatts.

Banking consortium signs deal to launch power plants in Egypt

Meanwhile, in a separate incident, police reported that gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a police captain near his home in Beni Suef, south of the country's capital, Cairo.

Roadside bomb injures 18 policemen in Egypt's Sinai

They say the truck was carrying bricks near Beni Suef, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Cairo, when the crash occurred, sending the vehicles into a roadside canal on Friday, AP reported.

Egypt Police Bus Crashes, Kills 16; Building Falls, 6 Dead

TEHRAN (FNA)- The main support bloc of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said Sunday that a man had been killed when police dispersed a pro-Mursi demonstration in the central city of Beni Suef.