Nile Basin InitiativeThe following paper examines the Nile question from an Egyptian perspective. The Nile is Egypt's main source of water, and 96% of this water originates from outside of its territory. This explains why water is a key security issue for Egypt, and why, from Egypt's ...
He noted that Egypt has many successful experiments in that area in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, adding that it is willing to get African states to benefit from its expertise and technology in the domain. As for the impact of building dams, he said dams sometimes have negat...
CAIRO - 22 November 2020: Egypt's exports to Nile Basin countries has reached $1.22 billion in 2019, against $1.20 billion in 2018, marking an increase of 1.4 percent, according to a report issued by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) on Sunday. Egypt's imp...
There were Hyksos (Heka Khasut) from Asia, who melted into the Delta Region around 1500 B.C.E., and then a series of invasions by the Assyrians, Persians and Greeks. With the arrival of large groups of Arabians in the seventh century C.E., the racial character of Egypt began to ...
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Indeed “in Lower Nubia the cultivable land area is seldom more than a few hundred yards in width and at not a few points, especially on the west bank, the desert advances clear up to the river brink” (Baedeker, Egypt, 1908, p. 376). The general aspect of the Nubian desert is ...
2. The Lower Paleozoic rock units Previous work on several surface and subsurface Paleozoic stratigraphic sections in Egypt (Keeley, 1989; Said, 1990; Issawi et al., 1999) revealed the presence of well-established and best exposed Lower Paleozoic rocks in Central Sinai, Gulf of Suez region and...
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Now flooded by the new High Dam at Aswan, the valley between the first and second cataracts was Lower Nubia; southward is Upper Nubia. Nubia was the Biblical Cush (q.v.), and its history was closely bound up with that of Egypt. Within Egypt proper, the Nile valley is rarely more ...
EGYPT: Rockhopper Exploration Reaches Full and Final Settlement with United Oil and Gas kamau January 27, 2025 Rockhopper Exploration with key interests in the North Falkland Basin has announced it has entered into an agreement with United Oil and Gas to settle an outstanding balance related to ...