Egypt to become regional energy hub in 2018
Egypt has many investment opportunities in the energy sector, including the production of new and renewable energy, electric transmission, exploration, and petroleum refining industries. Minister of...
Academics fear Sri Lanka megaprojct will hit environment
Sri Lankan academics have warned that insufficient attention is being paid to environmental impacts of the country’s massive Port City development, including links to global warming. Critics...
Mepco launches leadership programme for Saudi youth
Middle East Paper Company (Mepco), a leading vertically-integrated paper manufacturer, said it has joined hands with its waste management unit Wasco, to ink a partnership agreement with King...
Libya burns dirty oil for electricity as Islamic State disrupts gas plans
Libya is turning to crude oil to solve electricity shortages, as the threat from Islamic State holds back gas infrastructure development. Two new plants at Ubari in the southwest and Tobruk in the...
Dubai is finally set to get a sustainable hotel, which will run on solar power
Ground was recently broken on Dubai’s first sustainable hotel, which will have 100 per cent of its energy needs met by solar power. The 143-room Hotel Indigo will be part of The Sustainable City,...
How climate change and population growth threaten Egypt’s ancient treasures
In his 40-something years as an archaeological excavator on Luxor’s West Bank, Mustafa Al-Nubi has witnessed a flurry of changes. Tourist numbers have surged, fallen, and then slowly grown again....
Malta with the second highest number of psychiatric hospital beds per capita in EU in 2015
Malta had the second highest number of psychiatric hospital beds per capita in the European Union in 2015, according to a study by Eurostat published last week. The graph shows Malta ranking second...
It’s one Renaissance Dam thing after another
CAIRO — Recent talks between Egypt and Ethiopia ended with no progress — as have many meetings before — on their controversial dam project with Sudan. The repeated failures have left at least some...
