Egypt

CAIRO, November 19. /TASS/: The ceremony of pouring concrete at the second power unit of the El-Dabaa nuclear power plant (NPP) in Egypt took place on Saturday, Alexander Korchagin, senior vice-president of Atomstroyexport engineering division of Russia’s civilian nuclear power corporation Rosatom, told TASS on Saturday.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Negotiators say they have struck a potential breakthrough deal on the thorniest issue of United Nations climate talks in Egypt: the creation of a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution.

16 Nov 2022; MEMO: The Egyptian Presidential Pardon Committee yesterday announced the release of 30 pretrial detainees.

The committee said in a statement that "procedures to release the 30 pretrial detainees have been completed" without giving further details about the released detainees or the charges levelled against them.

The release coincides with the United Nations COP27 Climate Summit currently taking place in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's climate envoy on Monday urged developed countries to fulfill their promises and "make the pie bigger" on climate finance at the ongoing UN climate conference.

CAIRO (AP) — The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah said Tuesday they received a letter from him saying he has ended his hunger strike.

In a statement, the family said that Abdel-Fattah’s mother, Laila Soueif, received a short note in her son’s handwriting via prison authorities. The letter is dated Monday. In it, he asks her to come for her monthly visit to him in prison on Thursday.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate slammed world leaders Tuesday who persist in backing new fossil fuel projects despite science warnings that this will push temperatures across the planet to dangerous highs.

Countries agreed in the 2015 Paris climate accord to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) by the end of the century if possible. But scientists say that with about 1.2 Celsius (21. Fahrenheit) of warming already reached, that target is likely to be missed.

12 Nov 2022; MEMO: US President, Joe Biden, and Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, his Egyptian counterpart, emphasised on Friday their "mutual commitment multifaceted US-Egypt strategic partnership", Anadolu News Agency reports.

Biden and the Egyptian President met on the sidelines of a key UN climate conference, which is being hosted in Egypt's resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh, during which the leaders "firmed their commitment to accelerating global efforts to tackle the climate crisis," the White House said in a statement.

BENBAN, Egypt (AP) — From a distance, the endless landscape of solar panels stretching toward the horizon can easily be mistaken for crops nearing harvest. But here in the desert in southern Egypt, workers have been cultivating another precious commodity: electricity.

After the sun strikes the photovoltaic solar panels, a thermal charge generates electricity that runs to four government-owned power stations distributing power across Egypt’s national grid.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 10 (NNN-MENA) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt, agreed to develop one of the world’s largest onshore wind farms in Egypt, Egypt’s presidency said in a statement, on its website.

Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and UAE President, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the two countries, to launch the 10-gigawatt wind power project in Egypt, the statement added.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The focus of the UN conference on climate change should be the negotiations to reduce emissions and not an Egyptian activist who is on a hunger and water strike, Egypt’s foreign minister said Thursday.

Asked about the case of Alaa Abdel-Fattah, where prison authorities intervened medically on Thursday after he went on hunger strike over his imprisonment, Sameh Shoukry, who is both foreign minister and the president of this year’s summit, made clear it was not a priority for him as chair of the 27th annual climate talks, known by their acronym COP27.