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 …
Egypt’s Nile delta, only ~1 m above mean sea level at the Mediterranean coast, is subject to uneven rates of submergence. This is a response to several factors leading to increasing land lowering (subsidence) of the northern delta and adjacent seafloor, plus an accelerating rise in eustatic (world) sea level …
A Swiss court issued a ruling obliging Egypt to pay a compensation of $2bn to Ampal-American Israel Corporation for the damage caused by the cessation of the export of natural gas from Egypt to Israel in 2012. Government sources revealed Egypt’s intention to negotiate in order to reach a solution …
European solar power developer Scatec Solar has achieved a major milestone in its efforts to expand its footprint in the Egyptian solar market. Scatec Solar recently announced that it signed power purchase agreements for solar power projects of cumulative capacity of 400 megawatts. The company will be set up under …
In North Africa, Egypt has secured a future 400MW of solar power through a 25-year power purchase agreement with several partners. The agreement was signed earlier this month with the Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Dr. Mohamed Shaker El-Markabi and the Ambassador of Norway Mr. Sten Arne Rosnes …
-- A team from University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has used resource mapping tools and assessed the potential for large solar and wind farms in 21 countries in southern and eastern Africa, concluding that renewable energy has robust future in much of Africa. The countries studied, …
As debate about lifting a ban on coal imports split Egypt’s cabinet, an ultimately unsuccessful anti-coal campaign energized Egypt’s nascent environmental movement. In post-revolution Egypt, a fierce fight over coal imports In the wake of the 2011 revolution, persistent energy shortages prompted Egypt's government to consider overturning a long-standing ban …
Urban noise pollution and hearing loss are closely linked, according to rankings of 50 large cities in both categories released on Friday. High-decibel urban areas -- such as Guangzhou, New Delhi, Cairo and Istanbul -- topped the list of cities where hearing was most degraded, researchers reported. Likewise, cities least …
Entebbe — President Museveni yesterday, in the company of Ethiopian premier Hailemariam Desalegn, capitalised on the opportunity to express displeasure with the impasse over the new framework that seeks to replace colonial agreements on sharing and usage of the River Nile. Although careful and measured not to upset Egypt, which …
Researchers at Egypt's Nile University are developing a way to turn dried shrimp shells that would otherwise be thrown away into thin films of biodegradable plastic they hope will be used to make eco-friendly grocery bags and packaging. Six months into their two-year project, the research team has managed to …
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and German chancellor Angela Merkel will instate today the first phase of the three Siemens power plants in Beni Suef, Borollos, and the New Administrative Capital to add 4,800 MW. Al-Sisi and Merkel will watch the opening via video conference from the presidential Ittihadiya Palace. The …
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) released its assessment of national policies and the vulnerability of industries to climate change in selected sub-sectors in Egypt, Kenya, Senegal and South Africa. The report resulted from the first phase of the project titled “Low-carbon and climate-resilient industrial development in Africa (LCCR)”, …
Dabaa City in Matrouh governorate is currently witnessing a cultural shift after the announcement of the start of implementation of the nuclear power plant project on a part of its territory. A number of development projects are currently being inaugurated for the advancement of the city and the providence of …
In a statement following the signing of El-Dabaa nuclear station agreement, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi stressed that establishing El-Dabaa nuclear station for peaceful uses is hopeful and a message for Egypt and marks the confirmation of the and strategic relations between Egypt and Russia. Minister of Electricity Mohamed Shaker will …
Minister of Industry and Trade Tarek Kabil announced that the ministry will establish a new solar energy project for industrial purposes within the next five years, adding that the ministry is cooperating with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and New and Renewable Energy Authority. The cost of the …
Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker held a meeting with the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) to receive the latest updates regarding the executive position of the projects that aim to strengthen the performance of the electricity grid to be able to absorb the added capacities of the …
Ghanaian Felix Dapare Dakora is a Plant and Soil Biotechnology Professor at the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa. Professor Dakora won the award for his work on the interaction between legumes and social micro-organisms allowing bacterium to convert the 78% of nitrogen gas in the atmosphere into …
Our future crops will face threats not only from climate change, but also from the massive expansion of cities, a new study warns. By 2030, it’s estimated that urban areas will triple in size, expanding into cropland and undermining the productivity of agricultural systems that are already stressed by rising …
This special report in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society presents assessments of how climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events. This fifth edition of explaining extreme events of the previous year (2015) from a climate perspective continues to provide evidence that climate change …
A new report highlights the impact of a project implemented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with funding from the Government of Japan. The project tackles the challenges posed by climate change by promoting low-carbon and climate-resilient (LCCR) industrial development in Africa. The project assisted four African countries …
Egypt faces two nutritional challenges. The first is the “growth-nutrition disconnect.” High economic growth has not been accompanied by reduction in chronic child malnutrition, at least throughout the 2000s. Instead, the prevalence of child stunting increased during this decade—an atypical trend for a country outside wartime. The second challenge is …
