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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/21/2025 6:27:59 PM
Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, during separate phone calls with his African counterparts, stressed the importance of consensus as the main principle governing relations between riparian states in transboundary watercourses.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/20/2025 11:06:31 AM
Egyptian foreign minister Badr Abdelatty held a phone call with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on Tuesday to discuss the Israeli war on Gaza and Cairo’s water security concerns.
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World
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International
8/18/2025 2:38:30 PM
Thousands of firefighters backed by the military and water-bombing aircraft on Monday battled dozens of wildfires across Spain and Portugal, as the death toll increased to six since the outbreaks began.
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World
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Region
8/17/2025 10:55:36 AM
Over four decades of war, Afghanistan wielded limited control over five major river basins that flow across its borders into downstream neighbouring nations.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/15/2025 4:40:07 PM
After waking early to stand in line for an hour under the August heat, Rana Odeh returns to her tent with her jug of murky water. She wipes the sweat from her brow and strategizes how much to portion out to her two small children. From its color alone, she knows full well it’s likely contaminated.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
8/14/2025 11:11:28 PM
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/14/2025 10:25:00 PM
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Hani Sewilam have reiterated that safeguarding Egypt’s water security is a top national priority, affirming the country’s commitment to cooperation and mutual benefit with all Nile Basin states.
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World
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Region
8/13/2025 7:55:26 PM
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday hit out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's call for Iranians to rise up against their government over power and water shortages.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/12/2025 5:52:00 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Tuesday that Egypt will never allow its share of Nile water, which sustains 105 million Egyptians and about 10 million guests, to be touched.
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World
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War in Sudan
8/12/2025 1:07:30 PM
In the cholera-stricken refugee camps of western Sudan, every second is infected by fear. Faster than a person can boil water over an open flame, the flies descend, and everything is contaminated once more.
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World
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Region
8/10/2025 7:21:45 PM
More than 600 pilgrims in Iraq were briefly hospitalised with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station, authorities said Sunday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/6/2025 8:32:16 PM
Egypt reiterated on Wednesday its readiness to "finance and mobilize the necessary financing" for Uganda’s water-related infrastructure projects in the Nile Basin during bilateral talks in Entebbe.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/5/2025 5:42:29 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty confirmed to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday that Cairo will take all necessary measures guaranteed under international law to protect its water security.
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World
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Region
8/5/2025 3:41:04 PM
Ali Alyanak and his neighbours in Turkey's tourist hub Izmir now have to draw water from a shrinking aquifer 170 metres underground even as hotel pools remain full -- a sign for many of the region's dire water crisis amid prolonged drought.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/4/2025 4:00:55 PM
Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelatty, and Minister of Water Resources, Hani Sewilam, held talks in Kampala on Monday with Uganda’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Henry Oryem Okello, focusing on water security, regional developments, and strengthening bilateral ties.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
8/4/2025 10:48:33 AM
Atop Israel's air strikes, displacement and hunger, an unprecedented water crisis is unfolding across Gaza, heaping further misery on the Palestinian territory's population.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
8/1/2025 6:19:15 PM
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/28/2025 12:34:23 PM
Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty discussed key regional developments in a phone call on Sunday with Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, focusing on reaching a ceasefire in Libya and the Gaza Strip, as well as concerns related to the Horn of Africa and Egypt’s water security.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/27/2025 1:02:13 PM
Israeli forces brought the pro-Palestinian activist boat Handala into the port of Ashdod on Sunday, after seizing the vessel in international waters and detaining the crew, an AFP journalist saw.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/27/2025 12:57:40 AM
Israeli forces have intercepted and boarded the Handala aid ship in international waters en route to Gaza, detaining all 21 people on board, according to a livestream and a statement from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
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