Egypt

03 Dec 2022; MEMO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a decision dismissing Counsellor Mahmoud Mostafa Sayed Abdel Rahman, deputy head of the State Council and the second most senior judicial official, after he conducted prohibited commercial activities.

02 Dec 2022; MEMO: Egypt plans to award deals next year to build 21 water desalination plants in the first $3 billion phase of a programme that will draw on cheap renewable energy, the CEO of the country's sovereign fund said on Thursday, Reuters reports.

Egypt, which recently hosted the COP27 UN climate talks and is trying to boost lagging investment in renewables, also aims to start production at a series of proposed green hydrogen projects in 2025-2026, Ayman Soliman told the Reuters NEXT conference.

CAIRO (AP) — The debate over who owns ancient artifacts has been an increasing challenge to museums across Europe and America, and the spotlight has fallen on the most visited piece in the British Museum: The Rosetta stone.

The inscriptions on the dark grey granite slab became the seminal breakthrough in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics after it was taken from Egypt by forces of the British empire in 1801.

29 Nov 2022; MEMO: After years of tension, a handshake between Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, and Egypt's President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, last week opened the door to a flurry of back-door diplomacy between intelligence officials, two sources told Reuters.

Intelligence delegations from the two sides met in Egypt at the weekend, said a regional source with knowledge of the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity, Reuters reports.

28 Nov 2022; MEMO: For the sixth year, engineer Essam Kamal has been forcibly disappeared following his arrest in 2016 from 6th October City, 20 miles outside the Egyptian capital.

According to the Egyptian Network for Human Rights one year after security forces arrested Essam, he was accused of being among a group of people who attempted to assassinate the public prosecutor.

In 2015, Egypt's public prosecutor died after a bomb hit his convoy in Cairo.

CAIRO, Nov 25 (NNN-MENA) – The Egyptian archaeological mission, working at a temple in the delta province of Menoufia, found several mummies with golden tongues, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced, yesterday.

The tombs, which date back to different eras, including the Late Period of ancient Egypt and the Greco-Roman civilisation, contained several mummies that had golden tongues nestled in their jawbones, the statement said.

The mummies were in bad preservation condition, which meant the tombs had been subject to looting, it noted.

24 Nov 2022; MEMO: Israeli media, on Thursday, reported that Egyptian authorities had asked 11 Israeli pilots to leave its territory after they landed without visas, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Israeli daily, Maariv, said the pilots landed in Egypt in small planes but the Egyptian authorities asked them to leave, citing "reasons of national security".

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — In conflict-ravaged nations like Yemen and Somalia, devastating floods and droughts kill hundreds of people and uproot tens of thousands from their homes.

These countries and many others in the Middle East and Africa have been plunged into turmoil and wars for several years. Now climate change is an added disaster for those already struggling for survival.

SHARM EL SHEIKH (Egypt), Nov 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The European Union expressed disappointment Sunday with a lack of ambition on reducing emissions in the climate deal agreed at the UN’s COP27 summit in Egypt.

The 27-nation bloc and other developed countries had pushed for stronger commitments to bring down emissions in order to achieve the aspirational goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — For the first time, the nations of the world decided to help pay for the damage an overheating world is inflicting on poor countries, but they finished marathon climate talks on Sunday without further addressing the root cause of those disasters — the burning of fossil fuels.

The deal, gaveled around dawn in this Egyptian Red Sea resort city, establishes a fund for what negotiators call loss and damage.