Ahram Online Egyptian Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mohamed Abdel-Ati discussed with Congolese Vice Prime Minister Eve Bazaiba the progress of the Victoria-Mediterranean naval linkage project on Wednesday. “The naval route linking Lake Victoria and the Mediterranean through the Nile River will also increase tourism and commercial exchange. The project features …
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Alaa Thabet – Ahram Online During his official visit to Egypt, Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, spoke to Al-Ahram’s editor-in-chief on a host of issues including fostering economic and political cooperation between the two countries, strengthening Spanish-Egyptian strategic partnership in the Mediterranean region, providing coronavirus vaccines to Egypt, and efforts to …
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Egypt Today A 12-meter-long female humpback whale, listed as endangered in many countries, washed up on a beach in the Mediterranean Sea in Northern Egypt on Friday. A committee of marine experts moved to the scene in the Northern governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh to examine the dead whale. “The female …
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Egypt Independent The Egyptian Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources has signed two production-sharing contracts (PSC) with Royal Dutch Oil Company (Shell) for areas in the Mediterranean and Red Sea on Sunday. The agreements extend to a total area of 3,097 square kilometres (SKm) in the Red Sea, and 4,550 SKm …
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Ahram Online Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister for European Affairs Badr Abdel-Ati has called for “pushing political solutions for all crises facing the Mediterranean region and Africa, most notably the Palestinian issue”. Abdel-Ati’s comments came at a virtual ministerial meeting organized by the Spanish Foreign Ministry for the Southern Neighborhood countries …
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Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online In its annual meeting held in October, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) approved its next five-year strategy, putting Egypt as the bank’s biggest investment priority country until 2025. During her visit to Egypt in November, the Managing Director for the EBRD’s Southern …
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The era of European benevolence and benign neglect with Ankara is over; Turkey is now openly adversarial toward the entire European Union and NATO. It is time for the EU to clarify its response. Marc Pierini When dealing with Turkey in recent years, puzzled European governments have often oscillated between …
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Egypt Independent Italian oil and gas giant ENI confirmed a new gas discovery in Egypt’s North El Hammad concession in the Mediterranean Sea. The well, named Bashrush, is estimated to contain 250 Billion cubic feet of natural gas. News of the discovery broke out by oil and gas French company …
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Ahram Online The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum signed nine agreements to explore and produce oil and natural gas in the Mediterranean and Western Desert regions. The agreements include digging 38 wells with investments of a minimum $452.3 million and signing grants of about $84 million. According to a statement …
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