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That fund has now reached its final close with DPI at more than $112 million.

The fund launched in Cairo back in 2022 with $85 million, and Bankmisser came in as its anchor investor, with NBE and Banque du Caire right behind it.

Enclude is run by DPI, which is a London-based firm that focuses on Africa.

It took over the fund's management last year, when the fund was sitting at $105 million.

Yoshevet bat Mitzrayim, those living in Egypt.

The city of Nof, which is a little south of Cairo today, will be destroyed.

It will become desolate without any inhabitants.

By the way, we should have mentioned that this parakh, from Pasachet Gimel to the end of the parakh, is the Haftarah from Parshat Bo, which talks about the story of how G-d defeated the Egyptians when we came out of Egypt.

Oh, yeah.

The Egypt tour, which you go to Cairo for a few days and then travel down the Nile, Luxor, Valley of the Kings.

Yeah, doing that in April.

Oh, lucky you.

Egypt's parliament has authorised sending military support to Saudi Arabia to help the country defend itself against Houthi attacks.

The move, which follows a request from President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, could push Cairo directly into the regional conflict between the Gulf Kingdom and Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis.

During a visit to Cairo, the UN chief Antonio Guterres said it was essential to stop any escalation in the Middle East.

We need maximum restraints and diplomatic solutions.

If the Sabah rattling we are witnessing now translates itself into a major escalation, the situation in the region can get out of control.

Cairo has ruled out any strikes on Yemen.

In sport, the Papua New Guinea Baramundi's men's cricket team has beaten Denmark by four wickets in a thrilling run chase in the Cricket World Cup Challenge League A. Cricket PNG says the win boosts their team's chances of finishing in the top two at the World Cup qualifier.

The team chased a target of 305 runs to finish on 307 for six and 49.1 overs, led by Lenga Siaka, who top-scored with 83 runs off 81 balls.

Egypt's parliament has authorised sending military support to Saudi Arabia to help the country defend itself against Houthi attacks.

The move, which follows a request from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, could push Cairo directly into the regional conflict between the Gulf Kingdom and Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis.

The Houthis' advances also threaten the Bab al-Madr Strait, a gateway to Egypt's Suez Canal.

In sport, two players are set to make their All Blacks test debuts next month after being named in the squad for the end-of-year tour.

They were going to go straight to Egypt.

Because if you remember, Egypt, specifically Cairo, was kind of like the heart, like the powerhouse of the Ayyubids.

And so they were thinking, if we can take the Mediterranean to the Egyptian coast, get through into Cairo, and then take it, we've basically cut the head off the snake.

And now we can take Jerusalem and it'll fall over like a house of cards.

And also we'll have the freaking Nile, right? which is going to be amazing for trade and all other types of resources.

Yeah.

So their first target is this northern coastal kind of port town called Damietta.

And Damietta was about, I forget how far north of Cairo it was, but their hope was like, if we can take this, then we can have essentially like a stronghold that we can continue to fuel up and get supplies and reinforcements as we start to attack Cairo.

The vote enables the Egyptian president to solidify the kingdom's defense against recent attacks from Yemen's Houthi rebels.

CGTN's Adel Makhroui reports from Cairo.

After days of consultations, Egypt's parliament has authorized President el-Sisi to deploy the military to help defend Saudi Arabia.

This step reinforces the strategic alliance between the two greatest powers in the Arab world.

That's why Egypt is defending Saudi national security.

It doesn't want to get involved in conflicts.

Despite the announced defensive nature of that tentative Egyptian military deployment, the Houthis in Yemen have threatened Cairo.

They say if the North African nation gets involved in the conflict, that could jeopardize its national security and domestic stability.

That's pretty wild.

It took place at the Al-Basaji Mental Hospital, which is located in Cairo, Egypt.

Okay.

And the hospital was interesting because it used to be a royal palace.

wanted to find some sort of an interview or some sort of a little blurb in some newspaper article or something.

But half the information I found would get the name of the hospital right, but they kept saying it was in Turkey.

And I was like, you'd find websites with articles in Turkey, but when you actually look it up, it's in Cairo, Egypt.

It still operates today.

Okay.

And so she graduated at 18 with a degree in social science and then went off to Cairo, Egypt for, three years and got a bachelor's in middle Eastern studies.

And so our experience with charter school in the form of community college was excellent.

Uh, in 2020, the week before COVID changed everything.