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Jul
06
2023
By The African Mirror
Egypt starts $1.8 billion gas exploration wells programme

Egypt starts $1.8 billion gas exploration wells programme

NEWS
EGYPT has begun a $1.8 billion programme to drill natural gas exploration wells in the Mediterranean Sea and Nile Delta, petroleum minister Tarek El Molla told UAE state news agency WAM. The programme is in cooperation with Eni, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and BP. The aim is to drill 35 exploration wells within two years, 21 in the current 2023/2024 financial year and 14 in the next year, El Molla told WAM on the sidelines of an OPEC seminar in Vienna. Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Mar
22
2023
By The African Mirror
Egyptian startup turns millions of bags into tiles

Egyptian startup turns millions of bags into tiles

NEWS
AN Egyptian startup is aiming to turn more than 5 billion plastic bags into tiles tougher than cement as it tackles the twin problems of tonnes of waste entering the Mediterranean Sea and high levels of building sector emissions. "So far, we have recycled more than 5 million plastic bags, but this is just the beginning," TileGreen co-founder Khaled Raafat told Reuters. "We aim that by 2025, we will have recycled more than 5 billion plastic bags." At the company's factory, on the outskirts of Cairo, workers carry large barrels loaded with mixed plastic waste to be melted down and…
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Dec
19
2022
By The African Mirror
Hopes of sailing free of war and poverty dashed for Gazans as bodies return in coffins

Hopes of sailing free of war and poverty dashed for Gazans as bodies return in coffins

WORLD
NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI MONTHS ago, Talal Al-Shaer bid his two sons safe travels as they set off from the Gaza Strip on a tortuous route that they prayed would bring them new lives in Europe, free of poverty and war. But the boat taking them across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya sank soon after leaving. One son drowned, and his body recovered. The other was lost. Rather than regaling friends about their successful migration, Al-Shaer received condolences on Sunday. "A whole generation is lost, suffering, blockade, scarce jobs, bad mental health. That is what pushes them to migrate," he told Reuters…
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