{"id":207601,"date":"2025-09-19T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-signs-protocol-to-expand-transport-social-support-for-retirees\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:22:52","slug":"egypt-signs-protocol-to-expand-transport-social-support-for-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-signs-protocol-to-expand-transport-social-support-for-retirees\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Signs Protocol to Expand Transport, Social Support for Retirees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;Egypt&#8217;s Ministry of Industry and Transport signed a cooperation protocol with the Ministry of Social Solidarity on Thursday 18\/9\/2025, to enhance support for retired employees in the industry,&#8221; according to a Cabinet statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Transport Minister Kamel El-Wazir stated that the agreement should serve as a model for other ministries and agencies. He highlighted that it includes financial support to provide discounted fares on buses, trains, the Cairo metro, and electric rapid transit for senior&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509190091.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Egypt&#8217;s Ministry of Industry and Transport signed a cooperation protocol with the Ministry of Social Solidarity on Thursday 18\/9\/2025, to enhance support for retired employees in the industry,&#8221; according to a Cabinet statement. Transport Minister Kamel El-Wazir stated that the agreement should serve as a model for other ministries and agencies. He highlighted that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":207602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,9873,257,8523,30769,6428,3577,254,6096,8343],"class_list":["post-207601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-expand","tag-news","tag-protocol","tag-retirees","tag-signs","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-transport"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}