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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The efforts of the Ministry of Manpower, together with the General Union of Construction and Timber Workers, and the management of the Portland Cement Company in Alexandria and Beni Suef have succeeded in signing a collective labor agreement between the two parties to ensure the preservation of the rights and benefits of about 475 workers.

Egypt : The agreement achieves financial benefits for 475 workers in a cement company with branches in Alexandria and Beni Suef

The parallel grid will connect Beni Suef with Aswan's High Dam at a cost of EGP 5.

EEHC, Elsewedy to sign EGP 3.6bn contract for electricity transmission lines within 1 week

FILE- Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, Tarek Kabil CAIRO -- 21 January 2018: Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, Tarek Kabil, announced that Beni Suef Governorate witnessed a huge spurt in Industry during the last period, adding that the government supported its industrial zone with LE 723 million.

Min.: Beni Suef's industrial zone is supported with LE 728M

Dietmar Siersdorfer, CEO, Siemens, Middle East and UAE told a round table meeting in Egypt's Beni Suef province: "We have recently signed a service contract for the upcoming power plant in Qatar.

Siemens to deliver six gas turbines to Qatar

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

The coordinating bank for environmental and social project due diligence for the Beni Suef and Burullus power plants is Deutsche Bank.

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

CAIRO, Jan 31 (KUNA) -- Sixteen people were killed and 21 others wounded on Sunday when 22 cars collided with each other due to bad weather on a highway in Beni Suef Governorate, 115 km (71 mi) south of Cairo, the Health Ministry said.

Car accident kills 16 people, injures 21 others in Egypt's Beni Suef

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.

Banking consortium signs deal to launch power plants in Egypt

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.

Egyptian Killed as Police Disperse Protest

Faded portraits of Mursi are still plastered on sun-drenched houses in Beni Suef, one of Egypt's biggest Brotherhood bastions.

Islamist stronghold apathetic to pro-Mursi vote

KAHyRE (CyHAN)- A person was killed during clashes between supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and security forces in Upper Egypt's Beni Suef governorate while residents were voting on a new draft constitution on Tuesday, a health ministry official told Xinhua.