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
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EGYPT
Egypt has made up its mind to arrest the onslaught of desertification. A controversial scheme to make the country's deserts bloom has found favour with it, when recently in an international tender,
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Enough room
TWENTYFOUR more chambers have been unearthed in Egypt's biggest Pharaonic tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor in Southern Egypt. Archaeologists have discovered a total of 91 chambers in
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Much ado over the Nile
THE Egyptians are ready for battle to protect what they consider their nature- al right over the river Nile. The threat comes from neighbouring Sudan, which shares the river and has declared its
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Pyramids in peril
The Great Pyramids of Giza -- one of the 7 wonders of the world -- are threatened by a Cairo ring road. Anxious to ensure the priceless structures' survival, the United Nations Educational,
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Dams and sea deliver death blow to Nile delta
Sandwiched between an encroaching sea and dams that prevent silt from reaching it, the Nile delta seems doomed.
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Southern trade losses offset gains in capital
Financial transfer estimates that generously portray Northern largesse are deceptive for they camouflage huge payments triggered by the Gulf war.
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Falling Gas Prices Deny Russia a Lever of Power
As energy markets shrink, the same tactics that the Kremlin used to build Gazprom, the giant energy company, into a fearsome economic and political power that could restore Russian influence in the world are now backfiring, slashing both its profits and its influence.
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Egypt woos Indian investment in renewable energy
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: Egypt is going all out to promote renewable energy and is striving to attract Indian investment.
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Ecology becomes integral part of state policy
With pollution threatening to smother Egypt, environmental planning is becoming central to the country's economic policies
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It's curtains on sound and light
EGYPTIAN scientists Y I Hanna and M M Kandil of the National Institute for Standards in Cairo have designed and tested a double-layered curtain using local textiles which absorbs sound and light to