Egypt Today Selwin Hart, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Climate Action and Assistant Secretary-General for the Climate Action Team, stated at the ‘Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development’, on Friday, that “Africa is warning faster than the global average, which puts agriculture and food security in jeopardy”. …
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With environmental issues rising quickly up the EU agenda, it’s time to get trade and ecological policies into coherent alignment. Muhammed Magassy Between 2004 and 2017, an area of the globe larger than Germany was lost to deforestation, 43 million hectares of forest disappeared, for good. And the European Union is …
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Ahram Online “Egypt has been elected to lead the United Nation (UN) Peacebuilding Commission for the first time, succeeding Canada”, according to a statement by the Foreign Ministry in Cairo on Thursday. This comes as Cairo seeks to focus on engaging all actors to prioritise “impact” in the support of …
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The European Commission is caught between the needs of frontline states receiving refugees and those in the rear resisting responsibility-sharing. Mohamoud Yusuf Immigration and asylum have become two of the most politically sensitive issues within the European Union since the major influx of refugees and other migrants in 2015; where some member …
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London – Times of Egypt: In an exclusive interview with Times of Egypt, Egyptian Ambassador Tarek Adel discussed the British position on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). “We inform the British side of all developments in the GERD negotiations”, he said. He added “Britain knows Egypt’s stance towards the …
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Ahram Online Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said, in a televised address to the nation on Thursday, “as the years and days pass by, carrying memories of the the 23rd of July Revolution, it remains one of the most important milestones of pride in the country’s history”. The president’s address came …
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Egypt Independent Egypt’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement welcoming UNESCO’s decision in support of the right of African countries to restore their stolen cultural artefacts. The Egyptian permanent delegation to UNESCO played an important part in drafting the resolution, which was adopted during the 209th session of the organization’s executive …
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Egypt Today “Egypt was elected member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors for additional two years (2020-2022)”, said Omar Amer Youssef, the Egyptian ambassador and permanent representative to the international organization in Vienna on Thursday. “The African Group in Vienna approved, by consensus, Egypt’s candidacy again …
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Egypt Independent “The Confederation of African Football (CAF) delayed its Africa Cup of Nations tournament from January 2021 to January 2022 due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak”, according to a statement on Tuesday. The decision came during a CAF Executive Committee meeting, which discussed the future of competitions and other …
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Sara al-Issawy – Ahram Online Malinne Blomberg, the resident representative of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Egypt, spoke to Ahram Online about the bank’s measures to ameliorate the Coronavirus’ economic impacts on the continent and on discussion with Egypt to benefit from the bank’s financing. She stressed the strength …
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