Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/24/2023 5:27:10 PM
Egypt's Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Hani Sewilam said Saturday that Addis Ababa is building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) to exhert political dominance over the Nile River, in addition to the declared purpose of generating electricity.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/20/2023 1:33:44 PM
She was born amid war, in a hospital with no electricity in a southern Gaza city that has been bombarded daily by Israel. Her family named her Al-Amira Aisha, “Princess Aisha.” She didn't complete her third week before she died, killed in an Israeli airstrike that crushed her family home Tuesday.
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Business
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Energy
12/3/2023 5:34:30 PM
The Egyptian Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) and the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy signed agreements with Norwegian energy company Scatec, and a group of international financial institutions including the African Development Bank (AfDB) and British International Investment (BII) to launch three green energy projects in Egypt.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/21/2023 1:32:19 PM
The front line of the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its seventh week, shifted on Tuesday to the Jabalia refugee camp, a dense warren of concrete buildings near Gaza City in the north of the strip that has been without electricity, water, or access to humanitarian aid for weeks.
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Business
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Energy
11/16/2023 8:51:19 PM
The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) and Belgium’s Jan De Nul signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to study a project to export renewable energy to Europe, according to a cabinet statement on Thursday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/15/2023 11:45:00 PM
The Israeli army raided Gaza's largest hospital, where hundreds of patients, including newborns, have been stranded with dwindling supplies and no electricity. Accounts of brutality and terror unfold from inside the hospital while the UNSC voted for a "sufficient number of days pause".
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/14/2023 10:15:57 AM
Israel attacks around hospitals forced thousands of Palestinians to flee from some of the last perceived safe places in northern Gaza, stranding critically wounded patients, newborns, and their caregivers with dwindling supplies and no electricity, health officials said late Monday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/12/2023 6:33:44 PM
Israeli strikes pounded Gaza City overnight and into Sunday as ground forces battled Hamas militants near the territory's largest hospital, where health officials say thousands of medics, patients and displaced people are trapped with no electricity and dwindling supplies.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
11/5/2023 6:27:36 PM
French energy technology company Schneider Electric announced it will increase its investments in Egypt by €8 million throughout 2023, according to a statement on Sunday.
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Business
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Economy
11/5/2023 2:41:37 PM
The Egyptian government decreased the duration of power cuts in the country from two hours to one hour after natural gas supplies increased slightly, according to media reports on Sunday.
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Business
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Energy
11/1/2023 11:33:25 PM
The sixth assembly of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) launched yesterday in New Delhi with the participation of ministers from 20 countries and delegates from 116 ISA member countries, including Egypt.
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Business
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Economy
10/31/2023 6:13:16 PM
The state-owned Egyptian Chemical Industries Company (KIMA) reported a decline in natural gas supplies, according to a bourse statement on Tuesday.
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Business
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Energy
10/31/2023 3:59:34 PM
Egypt has signed an agreement with the Japanese Mitsubishi Power Company to develop the Sidi Krir and El-Atf power plants, according to a statement by the company on Tuesday.
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Business
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Economy
10/29/2023 1:58:14 PM
French Schneider Electric company plans to expand in the Egyptian market, having injected a total investment amounting to 300 million euros ($317.38 million) in Egypt over the past 35 years, according to a cabinet statement on Sunday.
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Egypt
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Society
10/28/2023 10:33:09 AM
Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, condemned on Friday the Israeli occupation’s intensified attacks in Gaza, denouncing the bombardment, killing, and cutting of electricity and internet connections as blind terrorism and a clear violation of legal and humanitarian principles.
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Business
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Energy
10/26/2023 6:05:45 PM
The European Union (EU) is considering a proposal to add an electrical interconnection project between Greece and Egypt to its list of Projects of Common Interest (PCIs), which will facilitate funding and issuing permits for the project.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/23/2023 10:51:08 PM
"Hello from Gaza -- I'm still alive": it's a message many Palestinians trapped in the besieged and bombarded territory send each morning to their loved ones outside the coastal enclave.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/20/2023 5:06:11 PM
The director of Shifa Hospital, Gaza's largest, says generators in the hospital are operating at the lowest setting to provide power to vital departments that cannot function without electricity, while others work in darkness, while the destruction and impact from Israeli airstrikes in retaliation for the Oct. 7 attack is visible in satellite imagery of blocks levelled by missiles and smoke rising over the blast zones.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/18/2023 2:04:46 PM
As people in Gaza continue to suffer from dire shortages of water, food, electricity, and fuel, aid organizations are pleading for a humanitarian corridor to allow for the entry of urgently needed supplies.
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Business
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Economy
10/15/2023 4:18:45 PM
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to grant a €165 million loan to Egypt to finance the upgrade of the electricity transmission grid, a venture that is also aimed at reducing pollutant emissions.
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