Zambia–Zimbabwe Batoka Gorge Hydro Power Project

Mali: at least 20 killed in attack on Ogossagou village

At least twenty villagers were massacred in an attack in the Malian village of Ogossagou, in the center of the country, medical sources said Friday. The assault was carried out overnight by around thirty armed men, a few hours after the Malian army withdrew from the locality. Twenty people were killed in an attack overnight […]

World Bank grants Egypt $9.13 M to expand the greater cairo air pollution management and climate change project

Egypt has secured $9.13-million grants from the World Bank for the expansion of the management of e-waste and healthcare waste under Greater Cairo pollution reduction project, the country’s Ministry of International Cooperation said in a statement. The grant would reinforce the original project’s environmental benefits, both locally and publicly, by improving e-waste and healthcare waste […]

Moroccan Mosques To Be Fitted With Energy Saving Systems

Morocco, host country of the 22nd UN conference on climate change (COP22), will fit its mosques with energy saving light bulbs, solar thermal water heaters and photovoltaic systems. The move dubbed “Green Mosques” is part of the North African strategy to encourage renewable energies. Six hundred “green mosques” are to be created in the country […]