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Egypt Independent   After importing medical supplies to Lebanon for 20 years, Hassan Hamdan closed his business in December. Sales were plummeting, clients couldn’t pay and the dollars he needed to buy imports had dried up. Now he drives an Uber. Businesses such as Hamdan’s have been shutting at a …

Ahram Online  The number of people requiring urgent food aid in 16 countries across Africa’s Sahel region more than doubled this year to some 9.4 million amid an increase in violence and insecurity, officials and experts said Monday. Three countries — Nigeria, Niger and Burkina Faso — are facing crisis …

Egyptianstreets Egypt produces 5.4 million tonnes of plastic annually, making it the biggest plastic polluter in the Arab World. A recent report by the WWF also revealed that Egypt is the biggest source of plastic polluting the Mediterranean, pouring in 250,000 tons every year. Turkey is the highest polluter in …

Ahram Online   Too much of the world is still addicted to coal power even as climate change “threatens the viability of human societies”, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday, singling out Asian nations over their on-going use of the fossil fuel. The U.N. chief told a gathering of …

Egyptianstreets   Conversations in Egypt about the climate crisis are not as loud as they ought to be. Sea level rise, in specific, is hardly addressed, even though the country is bound to severe affect. As global warming increases, Egypt’s coastal cities, along with other regions, come under threat. The …

Amira Sayed – Egyptianstreets   Following the dramatic Amazon fires that made headlines worldwide for several days, calls have increased globally towards the key players of climate change to take action. Many campaigns are stepping up their efforts to prompt governments and decision-makers to stop developing new fossil fuel projects …

Al-Ahram Weekly Care about our planet and want to make a difference to its future? You’re not alone, and one way you can do so is by joining the global movement to reduce the consumption of plastic bags. Plastic pollution is causing a great threat to the environment and especially …

Egyptianstreets   Amira Ahmed Rizk, a junior high school student, was detained for 15 days in a juvenile detention centre after she was charged with premeditated murder for stabbing her rapist 14 times. The 15-year-old girl’s case has been sent to medical and forensic examinations, with investigations still on going, …

Emma Scoulding – Egyptianstreets   “On September 10, after four months of trouble in Egypt from dealing with residency, to travel dates and prison, I left Egypt at dawn,” writes Ameen Taky, a 32-year-old former furniture salesman from Yemen, in a post on his personal Facebook page. In a series of 27 …

Egyptianstreets   Egyptian Parliament member Anissa Hassouna has submitted a proposal to abolish the use of plastic bags in Egypt to the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Environment. The news, which was reported online by various local news outlets, highlighted Hassouna’s interest in replacing the environmentally harmful use of …