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Can Africa develop on green power?

Power shortages are stalling African development. Private sector green power providers say renewables could close the energy gap – but better market conditions are essential.It’s one thing when the power fails for an hour, but quite another when homes are regularly left in the dark for a day or more, and industry shuts down because …

Deutsche Welle

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Cairo tops Africa’s cities in terms of FDI attraction in UN-Habitat report

Egypt’s capital Cairo held the first place in Africa in terms of volume of foreign direct investments (FDI) attracted, followed by South Africa’s Johannesburg in second place, then Morocco’s Tangier in third, Nigeria’s Lagos as fourth, and Morocco’s Casablanca ranked as fifth, according to the latest report issued by United Nations Human Settlements Programme, (UN-Habitat). …

Mohamed Samir

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Working with insects in Africa

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Kenya was founded in 1970 and aims to improve the lives and health of people in tropical Africa by focusing on harmful and useful arthropods.We recently met with Dr. Sunday Ekesi from the center to discus their sustainability push throughout tropical Africa. The institute’s work is …

Deutsche Welle

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Op-ed review: criticising BBC, Turkish tour of Africa

Some writers dedicated their op-eds to follow into the footsteps of recent escalation by Egypt’s State Information Service against the BBC network over a report on detention, torture, and enforced disappearances. Al-Youm Al-Sabea Managing Editor Akram Al-Qasas believed that reporters did not make attempts to complete the story by reaching for further sources. Moreover, he …

Amira El-Fekki

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Op-ed review: Al-Sisi in Africa, presidential election

State media focused on President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s visit on Saturday to Addis Ababa to participate in the 30th Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit. Both leaders of the two main state-run dailies addressed the role of Egypt in Africa. In Al-Ahram, Abdel Mohsen Salama, chairperson of the newspaper and president of the Press …

Amira El-Fekki

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Farida Osman is Africa’s best athlete

Egyptian swimmer Farida Osman has won the award for “Best Athlete in Africa 2017” at the World Athletics Awards ceremony on the sidelines of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) in Prague, Czech Republic. “2017 has been a great year for me—especially the historic moment of winning Egypt’s first-ever medal at the FINA World …

Nehal Samir

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Africa achieved only 1.7% economic growth in 2016: UN

The constant changes that struck the Egyptian economy throughout 2016 is only part of the bigger picture and the fluctuations that hit the entire African continent, according to the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) “Economic Report on Africa 2017”. The report was further elaborated in a conference held at the United Nations Information …

Reem Hosam El-din