Africa Solar Outlook 2025
Africa deployed an additional 2.5 GW of solar in 2024, according to AFSIA‘s new “Africa Solar Outlook 2025” report. AFSIA’s figures, which do not include residential installations, take the continent’s
Egypt
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World Bank to offer Egypt $1.5bn for housing, sanitation projects
World Bank (WB) officials have agreed to grant a $1.5bn concessional loan to the Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities in order to fund the social housing programme and improve villages’
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Egypt, Sudan Agree to Six-Month Study of Ethiopia Hydropower Dam
Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan agreed to complete studies within six months on the impact of an Ethiopian hydropower dam on the main tributary of the Nile river after Egypt raised concern about water shortages.
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African Water Ministers Meet to Discuss Studies of Ethiopian Dam
Water ministers from Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan began discussing studies to determine what impact an Ethiopian hydropower dam being built on the main tributary of the Nile River will have on the two downstream
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Recycling fuel subsidies as health subsidies
As debates concerning global sustainable development goals intensify, there is one policy that seems to unite all development agencies: the reduction or elimination of energy subsidies – especially those
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Wabag Wins Egypt Orders for Drinking Water From Nile River
The Wabag (VATW) Group won two contracts to provide drinking water from the Nile river to 800,000 people in Egypt. The group will build water-treatment plants in the cities of Suez and Port to produce
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Study Finds Nearly 29% of World Population Is Overweight or Obese
Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Jumped 27.5% for Adults, 47.1% for Kids From 1980 to 2013 The obesity epidemic is global: 2.1 billion people, or about 29% of the world's population, were either
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One in three people worldwide is fat, no country immune
Almost a third of the world is now overweight, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis. Researchers found more than 2 billion
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‘Obesity in kids up 47%, adults 28%’
In a startling revelation, a new study has found significant increase in rates of obesity and overweight in both adults (28 per cent increase) and children (up by 47 per cent) in the past 33 years, with
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Egypt's cabinet approves use of coal for power generation
Egypt's cabinet on Wednesday approved the use of coal for power generation after a fierce debate within the government over whether the highly pollutant fuel should be permitted for use by the energy-intensive
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Have population declines in Egyptian Vulture and Red-headed Vulture in India slowed since the 2006 ban on veterinary diclofenac?
Populations of three vulture species of the genus Gyps, the Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus and Red-headed Vulture Sarcogyps calvus have declined markedly on the Indian subcontinent since the mid-1990s