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One of the world's largest wind farms in Egypt.

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  The United Arab Emirates and Egypt have signed an agreement to build one of the world's largest wind farms in Egypt. President Sheikh Mohamed and Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah El Sisi witnessed the signing of an agreement between Masdar, Egypt's Infinity Power and Hassan Allam Utilities to develop a 10 GW onshore wind project. The MoU was signed in Sharm El Sheikh by Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and High Technology, Special Envoy for Climate and Chairman of   The 10-gigawatt onshore project will create up to 100,000 jobs in Egypt  Masdar. Sheikh Mohamed said the deal was "in line with our commitment to promote renewable energy solutions that support sustainable development". dr Al Jaber said the scale of the project, "one of the largest wind farms in the world," is "a testament to the United States' ambitions in the field of renewable energy." United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Egypt, demonstrating Masdar's status as a

How Egypt's is already falling victim to climate change

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  Long earlier than Boris Johnson warned remaining yr that Alexandria will be “misplaced below the waves”, some of the Egyptian metropolis’s citizens should see that some thing became now no longer pretty proper of their historical town. Summer is a whole lot warmer than it was and drags on till October, even November, they note. Winter, they complain, is now a whole lot less warm than they don't forget it to be  or 3 many years ago. Winter downpours are heavier and greater frequent, they lament. And it’s now no longer simply hearsay. Experts were sounding the alarm, pronouncing weather alternate is wreaking havoc in Alexandria, a metropolis that became as soon as a bastion of lifestyle and technology and now a cramped town of 7 million. The sea stage is growing regularly growing and the metropolis’s low-mendacity regions will be absolutely below water 30 years from now. It rose with the aid of using 5.6 centimetres among 1944 and 1990, and for the reason that 2006, it's been

On October 1 Russian flights to Egypt's Red Sea will resume

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  In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, flights from the country to both Red Sea cities were halted in March, a hiatus that hit Egypt's economy hard since the two warring countries account for about 30 per cent of its incoming tourists every year. According to Aeroflot’s online booking system, there will be a daily flight to Sharm El Sheikh and another to Hurghada starting on October 1. Although Cairo-bound flights from the Russian city of Sochi were allowed to resume in April, as per Russian state media, there was a marked drop in the number of incoming Russian and Ukrainian tourists this year compared to last, a July statement from Egypt’ s Cabinet said. In February, Russia’s ambassador to Egypt issued a statement that 125,000 tourists from his country had visited various Egyptian cities in the first two weeks of 2022, a number which had made Egypt’s tourism sector hopeful that it would find a much-needed respite from the tourism dry spell the country went through in 2020