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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/8/2022 11:40:00 AM
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi arrived in Saudi Arabia on Thursday to attend the first China-Arab summit in Riyadh, Presidential Spokesperson Bassam Rady said.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/3/2022 1:59:15 PM
US President Joe Biden is set to host the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit on 13-15 December in Washington DC along with approximately 50 heads of state and senior government officials from African countries, according to a statement by the African Union (AU) Mission to the US on Friday.
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World
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International
12/1/2022 8:40:48 PM
US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron emerged from White House talks Thursday pledging to close ranks in helping Ukraine defend itself from Russia and in facing the "challenge" posed by China.
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World
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International
11/29/2022 9:01:44 PM
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced plans for a second Summit for Democracy next year, this time to be co-hosted by the governments of Costa Rica, the Netherlands, South Korea and Zambia.
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World
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Africa
11/24/2022 1:32:39 PM
Leaders called for a cease-fire to take effect later this week in eastern Congo following a summit in Angola on Wednesday that included Congo's president and Rwanda's foreign minister but not the M23 rebels whose rapid advance has sharply escalated tensions between the two countries.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/22/2022 7:47:43 PM
In conflict-ravaged nations like Yemen and Somalia, devastating floods and droughts kill hundreds of people and uproot tens of thousands from their homes.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/21/2022 1:56:18 PM
China on Monday welcomed a deal struck at the landmark COP27 climate summit in Egypt, but warned there was still a "long way to go" for global cooperation in curbing rising temperatures.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/20/2022 9:43:12 PM
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El-Molla headed the Egyptian delegation taking part in the 18th summit of the International Organisation of Francophonie (OIF), currently being held on the Tunisian island of Djerba, on behalf of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/20/2022 7:43:45 PM
A breakthrough funding deal at the COP27 conference to help poor countries ravaged by climate change was welcomed Sunday by Pakistan, a nation devastated this year by record-breaking monsoon rains.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/20/2022 6:00:40 PM
A summit meeting is being held between Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Doha, Qatar on the sidelines of the inauguration of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, Egyptian News channel Al-Qahera News reported.
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COP27
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To Know
11/20/2022 12:06:00 PM
The 27 UN Climate Change Summit (COP27) in Egypt drew praise Sunday for the creation of a historic "loss and damage" fund to help vulnerable countries cope with the destructive impacts of global warming.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/20/2022 9:59:00 AM
A fraught UN COP27 summit wrapped up Sunday with a landmark deal on funding to help vulnerable countries cope with devastating climate impacts -- and deep disappointment over a failure to push further ambition on cutting emissions.
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World
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Region
11/19/2022 1:25:37 PM
Leaders of French-speaking countries gathered Saturday on a Tunisian island to discuss debt relief, migration, food and energy shortages, with a soaring cost of living across Africa, Europe and the Middle East due to war in Ukraine as the backdrop.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/18/2022 12:31:51 PM
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) released a COP27 draft negotiating text early Friday morning to be hashed out by the countries’ delegates in the remaining few hours of the annual climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/17/2022 11:57:19 PM
African civil society groups have expressed their disappointment at the prospect of delaying decisions on the issue of Loss and Damage – which is one of the most pressing issues on the agenda of the UN climate summit (COP27) currently underway in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheik city – till 2024.
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Egypt
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Tourism
11/17/2022 9:12:40 PM
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities launched on Thursday a campaign to promote sustainable tourism to the country in tandem with the 27th UN Climate Change Summit (COP27) taking place at the popular Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/17/2022 4:43:28 PM
UN climate talks were deadlocked Thursday over calls to create a special fund to cover the losses suffered by vulnerable nations hit by natural disasters, raising the risk that negotiations could collapse.
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World
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International
11/17/2022 4:02:00 PM
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Thursday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed to boost communication on security matters at a summit in Bangkok.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/16/2022 10:34:31 PM
Six weeks before taking power, Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday told cheering crowds at the UN climate conference that he would crack down on illegal deforestation in the Amazon, reinitiate relationships with countries that finance forest protection efforts and push to host an upcoming world climate summit in the rainforest.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/16/2022 8:20:52 PM
Western leaders played down fears Wednesday that a deadly missile blast in eastern Poland could herald a dangerous escalation in the war Russia launched against Ukraine, blaming stray anti-aircraft fire.
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