{"id":245480,"date":"2026-09-25T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-next-economy-lies-beyond-the-suez-canal\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:00:09","slug":"egypts-next-economy-lies-beyond-the-suez-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-next-economy-lies-beyond-the-suez-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s Next Economy Lies Beyond the Suez Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>For centuries, Egypt&#8217;s power has flowed from the Nile and its position between continents. In the twenty-first century, the question is whether geography can become industry\u2014and strategic relevance become broadly shared prosperity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>LONG-FORM ECONOMIC ANALYSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">Few countries possess geography as economically consequential as Egypt&#8217;s. More than 110 million people live at the meeting point of Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia. The Mediterranean lies to the north, the Red Sea to the east and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609240384.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>For centuries, Egypt&#8217;s power has flowed from the Nile and its position between continents. In the twenty-first century, the question is whether geography can become industry\u2014and strategic relevance become broadly shared prosperity. LONG-FORM ECONOMIC ANALYSIS Few countries possess geography as economically consequential as Egypt&#8217;s. More than 110 million people live at the meeting point of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":245481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690449:95a5e6a10608ceba996429b109f00a27:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,16594,5762,415,6989,16559,257,254,16593],"class_list":["post-245480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-canal","tag-economy","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-lies","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suez"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690449:95a5e6a10608ceba996429b109f00a27:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245480","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=245480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}