Egypt participates in African communications' conference

Amin Basiouni, the head of the Egyptian Nile Sat Company, said yesterday before leaving Cairo Airport heading to Johannesburg for a visit to South Africa that an Egyptian delegation will hold discussions with the delegations participating in the conference on how to benefit from the Egyptian satellite Nile Sat 102, launched last week and considered an Arab - African satellite.

African information ministers in their lasting meeting in Egypt praised the Nile Sat project and expressed their desire to make use of it.

The Egyptian delegation will also participate during its visit to South Africa in the three-day international African communications conference, Africa Telecom.