[Premium Times] The COP27 assembled more than 46,000 delegations from nearly 200 countries in Egypt for two weeks to drive forward sustainable actions to fight climate change.

[AFSA] As the dust settles in Sharm El-Sheikh, Africa has little reason to rejoice. Africa and the Global South can take some hope from the small gains made at COP27. At the last minute, negotiators agreed to provide "loss and damage" funding for vul...

[Egypt Online] Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad said in a statement on Wednesday 23/11/2022 Egypt has gained significantly on the national, regional, and international levels by its hosting, on behalf of Africa, the 27th UN Climate Change Confer...

[Egypt Online] Egypt has signed agreements to carry out projects at a value of around $15 billion at the recent United Nations climate conference (COP27), said Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad.

[Premium Times] The Sharm el-Sheikh Implementation Plan (SHIP) saw Parties recommit to keeping the 1.5°C target for global temperature rise intact.

[RFI] Egyptian-British pro-democracy blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah ended his seven-month-long hunger strike from jail earlier this week, and was finally allowed a family visit, which his sister called "unsettling" after his relatives saw him in such a po...

[The Conversation Africa] Many football lovers hope an African team will finally win the men's 2022 Fifa World Cup. The world has been waiting for this since the great Brazilian player Pelé predicted (in the 1970s) that an African country would win ...

[DW] Troop training, arms sales and mercenaries are the pillars of Russia's security support in Africa. But analysts say the war in Ukraine has exposed the risks to African nations of relying on Russian military support.

[Egypt Online] The Egyptian state is implementing mega projects in the agricultural sector to raise the cultivated areas to more than 9.7 million feddans, Spokesman for the Agriculture Ministry Mohamed Al Qersh said Friday

[UN News] Independent human rights experts are in dialogue with Egyptian and UN authorities over the harassment of civil society representatives at the COP27 climate change conference, according to a statement issued on Friday.

[Egypt Online] President Abdel Fattah El Sisi received on Tuesday15/11/2022 a phone call from Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

[The Conversation Africa] It couldn't have been a case of better timing. Egyptologists celebrating the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, now have a promising new archaeological discovery that appears to have been made in Egypt. E...

[Egypt Online] Spokesman for the Ministry of Health Hosam Abdel Ghaffar said 98% of people infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have cold-like symptoms.

[CPJ] New York -- Egyptian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Ahmed Fayez and drop all charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday.

[DW] Alaa Abdel-Fattah is still alive eight days after refusing to drink water in protest at his imprisonment. The activist's sister confirmed the receipt of a letter from him in his handwriting.

[MAP] Rabat -- A framework partnership agreement aimed at promoting refugees' access to health and social protection was signed, Monday in Rabat, between the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Mo...

[MAP] Cairo -- The 44th edition of the Cairo International Film Festival kicked off Sunday with the participation of 97 films from 52 countries, including Morocco.

[The Conversation Africa] The ability to speak freely in Egypt is currently very constrained. Individuals, groups and NGOs face significant barriers to participation in the political process. And the same holds for the exchange of opinions in the eve...

[UNECA] November 10, 2022 - After reviewing its relationship with some of the private sector partners in Team Energy Africa, ECA has decided to cancel the initiative with immediate effect. The ECA is committed to working with the private sector to im...

[DW] Detained pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah has been refusing to eat or drink. His family now says Egyptian authorities have intervened medically to sustain him.

[New Times] Egypt's national carrier, EgyptAir has announced plans to increase its regular weekly flights between Kigali and Cairo, owing to the airline's increased demand in the recent past.

[allAfrica] Sharm el-Sheikh -- Women activists say their voices have been absent or have gone unheard at previous climate summits. So they are taking action and looking to assume the lead on climate action and participation in decision-making process...

[HRW] Egypt began hosting the United Nations climate change summit (known as COP27) this week. In preparatory meetings, its government has criticized the hypocrisy of high-emission countries that are failing to adequately support developing countries...

[UN News] UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk on Tuesday appealed for Egypt to free a prominent blogger and activist whose life is in imminent danger following a seven-month hunger strike, that has escalated with the start of the COP27 cli...

[IPS] United Nations -- The COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh has triggered a negative fallout for Egypt's authoritarian regime which stands accused of human rights abuses -- and has been widely condemned for its longstanding repressive campaig...

[Egypt Online] The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced on Tuesday8/11/2022 providing a new tranche of financing worth US$ 5.5 million to TAQA PV for Solar Energy, TAQA Arabia's renewable energy subsidiary, under its exis...

[Ghanaian Times] A UK-based Ghanaian weightlifter, Solomon Nii Nortey Ocquaye, showed extraordinary grit and determination to win three medals at the Africa Seniors Weightlifting Championships in Cairo, Egypt.

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa will participate in the Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit scheduled from today until tomorrow in the Arab Republic of Egypt.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition party leader Raila Odinga is set to address this year's United Nations' 27th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, known as COP27 taking place in Egypt.

[The Exchange] Egypt's central bank said that it raised key interest rates by 2 per cent in a bid to combat the country's surging inflation