Nearly 65% of adults in the Arab region remain excluded from formal financial systems, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The Annual SDG Review 2025 paints a sobering picture of persistent financial exclusion that is undermining the region’s ability …
A scorching heat wave has gripped Egypt this week, killing at least 42 people, including a German man, three patients in a psychiatric hospital and three detainees at a jail, officials said Tuesday. While Egyptian summers are usually hot, this week’s temperatures in the south soared to 111 degrees Fahrenheit. …
Egyptian youth represent 23.6% of the total population, around 20.7m, and around 26.3% of those youth suffer unemployment, while 51.2% suffer poverty, according to a 2015 report that was issued by the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) on Tuesday. Youth close to the poverty line amount to …
Although more than 90% of Europeans, Japanese and North Americans are aware(Reuters) Some 40% of adults worldwide have never heard of climate change, a study has found. Published in Nature Climate Change, the researchers from a string of higher education facilities across the US analysed the awareness and the perceived …
Cairo — Within two weeks, a tripartite meeting by Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia will be held in Khartoum to resume negotiations on the impact of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River's water provision on the two downstream countries. The decision was taken at a meeting of 12 …
Extreme precipitation events in the Mediterranean region during the cool season are strongly affected by the export of moist air from tropical and subtropical areas into the extratropics. The aim of this paper is to present a discussion of the major research efforts on this subject and to formulate a …
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian cable maker El Sewedy Electric said on Sunday it had entered into an agreement to develop a 50 megawatt solar energy power plant in the Upper Egypt region. El Sewedy formed the Egyptian Company for Solar Energy Development, a subsidiary that it will invest about $75 …
Much of the Middle East and North Africa is set for acute water shortages and the region must do more to conserve water while expanding a series of pilot program including solar-powered water pumps, scientists and officials said on Tuesday. "The situation is critical," Essam Khalifa, a senior official from …
The Egyptian government has recently taken serious measures to reduce smoking. However, the country is still the largest tobacco market in the Arab world, and has one of the top 10 per capita cigarette consumption. Last year, an Egyptian study revealed that 24.4 percent of Egypt's 90 million populations are …
Minister of Housing Moustafa Madbouly announced the completion of sewage projects in 10 villages as part of a grant from the UAE. In addition, 35 other projects are currently under implementation within the grant, which will be completed by 30 June. The projects are being implemented in seven governorates, including …
The Ministry of Housing signed an EGP 1.2bn loan with the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD), according to a ministry statement Sunday. The fund will be directed to developing sewage networks in 32 in villages in Giza, from villages contaminated by the Al-Rahawi drainage canal as a …
Egypt has long been a pioneer in renewable energy; unlike other countries in the region, exploration of the potential of Egypt’s vast renewable energy resources started more than a hundred years ago. Construction of the world’s first thermal solar power station began in 1912 at Maadi, in the south of …
The Arab Water Council discussed the results of some of the social and economic studies on the impact of climate change on Egypt, which could cause a loss up to US$50 billion a year by 2060, up to about 6 percent of the gross national product, if necessary water and …
Former Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel Motaleb, head of Egypt's delegation to World Water Forum held in South Korea, said that Egypt presented new, several and non-traditional visions on facing international water problems. In press statements on Tuesday 14/4/2015 on the sidelines of the forum, Abdel Motaleb said that Egypt works …
Khartoum — The Sudanese Ministry of Minerals announced a temporarily halt to issuing licenses to gold mining companies in the northern Sudanese Rive Nile state on Tuesday. A committee formed by the Minerals Ministry recommended a review of the environmental deterioration resulting from the toxic waste produced by traditional mining …
Khartoum – The meeting of the water ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan began yesterday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, with the aim of adopting an advisory office to conduct studies on the Renaissance Dam being built by Ethiopia on the River Nile. A consultant office of two global …
UAE Metito has signed an agreement for a Public Private Partnership (PPP) worth $75m with the government of Rwanda to develop a new, sustainable bulk water supply plant to meet 40 percent of the drinking water needs of Kigali, the capital city. The project will be carried out by Metito …
It is widely accepted that the costs of underpricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors—transport and agriculture—in two countries …
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan signed a declaration of principles on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Monday in a meeting of the trio's top leadership in Sudanese capital Khartoum. In a ceremony aired on live television, Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam …
The Ministry of Water Resources said Egypt and Kenya will sign a memorandum of understanding worth 5.5 million dollars (around 40 million pounds) for boosting bilateral water cooperation, the ministry said in a statement. It said Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazy met with Kenyan Minister of Agriculture, Livestock …
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced, on the anniversary of the World Water Day, that Egypt is ranked 50 out of 178 countries in the water and sanitation index, according to the environment performance evaluation report for 2014 issued by the environment research center in the …
