All Africa Sisi - Arab World Witnessing Radical Changes President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said on Friday that the Arab World is witnessing radical changes and facing grave challenges at the political, economic and security levels. The world community should act together to face those challenges, Sisi told the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa meant to outline a regional framework for prosperity and peace through cooperation between the private and public sectors. He pressed for action to determine reasons behind such challenges and find ways to overcome them in order to help achieve aspirations of the Arab peoples to achieve development and prosperity. Read more: http://allafrica.com/stories/201505221439.html The Journal of Turkish Weekly Policeman killed in Egypt's Sinai by Daesh-linked group A policeman was killed Friday by gunmen of a Daesh-linked militant group in the northeastern quadrant of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, a security source has said. "An armed group blocked the road ahead of an ambulance transporting a policeman who had fallen ill from a checkpoint in northeast Sinai," the source, requesting anonymity, told Anadolu Agency. "The militants forced the policeman to exit the ambulance, shot him dead and wounded his accompanying medic in the shoulder before seizing the vehicle and fled the scene," the source said, adding that two of the gunmen have been arrested following a pursuit. Read more: http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/186109/policeman-killed-in-egypt-39-s-sinai-by-daesh-linked-group.html Xinhua Army raids kill 17 Islamist militants in Egypt's Sinai At least 17 suspected Islamist militants were killed on Friday by the armed forces in the Egyptian province of North Sinai, an official security source told Xinhua. Apache raids on a camp of the Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) group have killed ten militants southern Rafah city. Another seven were killed in fire exchanges with the security forces in Sheikh Zuweid city, the source added on conditions of anonymity. Read more: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-05/23/c_134262956.htm Al Monitor Egypt Nile water pollution on the rise An intensive media and political momentum is taking place in Egypt in regard to the conflict with Nile headwaters countries over securing Egypt's annual share of the Nile waters. At the same time, the pollution of the Nile River remains a pending issue that is being underscored in Egypt with every water poisoning incident caused by the dumping of hazardous waste in the river. The debate usually ends when the government reassures the public, and emphasizes that the water is safe and suitable for human consumption, without establishing long-term policies to resolve the crisis. On April 22, a barge managed by an Egyptian army-owned company capsized in Upper Egypt, spilling 500 tons of phosphate. In the two weeks following the incident, the armed forces worked to recover the barge and clean the Nile River of phosphate. Hossam Moghazy, the minister of water resources and irrigation, said in a statement, "The entire spillage was removed; maybe there is still some sediment, but it is neither infectious nor harmful." Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/05/egypt-nile-water-pollution-phosphate-ammonia-fish-drinking.html#ixzz3awRFtYlW
