War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/16/2023 11:00:06 PM
Hospitals in Gaza faced collapse Monday as water, power, and medicine neared depletion, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians searched for dwindling food supplies while Israel maintained punishing airstrikes in retaliation for last week's attack page by Hamas.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/16/2023 3:35:00 PM
The Ministry of Interior in Gaza sounded alarm bells on Monday afternoon about the severe drinking water crisis facing Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip refuting earlier Israel's claims that that it resumed water supplies to the southern parts of the strip.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/16/2023 1:02:00 AM
The Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has now reached its 9th day, and the situation is growing increasingly dire for the 2.3 million civilians residing in Gaza. They are confronted with escalating challenges in securing essential necessities such as food, water, and safety, all while preparing for the imminent threat of an Israeli ground invasion.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/15/2023 7:40:48 PM
Israel resumed the water supply to southern Gaza, Energy Minister Israel Katz said Sunday, as one million people have evacuated the north of the Strip to escape a massive air assault.
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World
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International
10/12/2023 8:49:58 PM
France on Thursday said it was banning all pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the grounds such protests threaten public order. This comes amid the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza, which has cut water, food and electricity from Palestinians residing in the impoverished Palestinian enclave.
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Business
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Economy
10/12/2023 5:16:55 PM
Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait said that issuing $500 million Chinese Panda bonds aims to support Egypt's green economy transition through expanding projects of green transportation, renewable energy, sustainable management of water, and sanitation.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/11/2023 12:24:58 AM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized Israel’s blockade of Gaza saying cutting off electricity and water is against the Palestinians’ human rights.
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World
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Region
10/10/2023 10:53:33 PM
EU foreign ministers on Tuesday urged Israel not to cut "water, food, or electricity" to Gaza and called for humanitarian corridors for those trying to flee the territory, the bloc's foreign policy chief said.
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Egypt
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Society
10/5/2023 3:12:17 PM
Torrential rains flooded various parts of the northwestern governorate of Marsa Matrouh in the early hours of Thursday, turning large swathes of the city into streams, creating water-logging near residential buildings, and causing traffic mayhem.
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Business
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Energy
10/3/2023 5:31:12 PM
Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN climate change high level champion for Egypt, said that a clean and healthy environment is essential to the human rights to life, health, water, food, housing, and a decent standard of living.
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Business
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Energy
9/26/2023 5:55:03 PM
Egypt's Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala El-Said announced the launch of Abdul Latif Jameel's (J-PAL) Clean Air and Water Labs, focused on solving the most pressing air and water challenges in Africa and the Middle East.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/24/2023 10:20:15 PM
Egypt's Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Irrigation issued a statement on Sunday announcing that no substantial progress was achieved during the most recent round of GERD negotiations in which Ethiopia retracted some prior understandings that had been reached between the three countries during the negotiation process.
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Egypt
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Society
9/20/2023 5:54:19 PM
The Egyptian Cabinet announced on Wednesday a three-month ban on onion exports to regulate skyrocketing prices in local markets.
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World
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Region
9/20/2023 2:15:38 PM
It was long past midnight when Abdel Moneim Awad al-Sheikh awoke to desperate screams from outside his home in the Libyan city of Derna, only to find his building engulfed by surging flood waters.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/19/2023 7:06:48 PM
Egypt is keen to support South Sudan in various water infrastructure projects to provide access to clean water, said Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Hani Sewliam on Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Society
9/18/2023 2:23:05 PM
The upcoming Cairo Water Week (CWW) in October will feature the participation of 54 regional and international organizations, Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Hani Sewliam said.
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World
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Region
9/17/2023 8:57:00 PM
A week after a wall of water rushed through the Libyan coastal city of Derna, sweeping thousands to their deaths, the focus turned Sunday to caring for survivors of the disaster.
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World
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Region
9/16/2023 8:54:04 PM
Two dams that burst in a hurricane-strength storm, unleashing a wall of water that killed thousands in the Libyan port of Derna, had been cracked since 1998, an official said.
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World
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International
9/14/2023 7:29:15 PM
Survivors of a deadly migrant shipwreck in southern Greece three months ago are suing authorities for failing to intervene to rescue passengers before their vessel capsized in international waters, their lawyers said Thursday.
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World
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Region
9/14/2023 1:10:00 PM
The wall of water several stories high smashed into apartment buildings, drowning entire families in minutes.
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