Faced with a shortage of water for irrigation, Ahmed Osman, a farmer in his late thirties, opted to divert local sewage water to irrigate his two-hectare vegetable plot in the heart of Egypt's Nile Delta governorate of Sharkia.
Without water, any (...)
CAIRO: More than five months after flash floods hit the southern Egyptian governorate of Aswan and destroyed hundreds of homes, thousands of flood victims are still without proper shelter, they said.
“The government has done nothing whatsoever to (...)
CAIRO: Outside downtown Cairo's teeming Ramses train station, the crowd studiously ignores the health official, despite his repeated pleas for travelers to spare a few minutes to donate blood in a nearby minivan.
“Thousands of patients badly need (...)
CAIRO: A controversial organ transplant bill expected to become law in the next few weeks could regularize organ transplants and curb Egypt's booming illicit trade in human organs, experts say.
Hundreds and possibly thousands of poor Egyptians (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian government's decision to cull all of the country's 300,000 pigs in May 2009 is increasingly being viewed by experts and officials as a gross mistake as piles of organic waste the pigs once ate accumulate in Cairo's streets, (...)
Dubai--Governments and NGOs in the Middle East have begun mobilizing humanitarian aid for the survivors of a devastating earthquake in Haiti that may have killed more than 100,000 people, according to media reports.
The UN has launched an appeal for (...)
CAIRO: For years, Mohamed Mustafa inhaled the soft dust that used to come out of the machines in the cement factory south of Cairo where he worked, but he never thought those small particles would end his career.
A few years ago, the 55-year-old (...)
CAIRO: When government workmen came in a truck to take Ahmed Mohamed's furniture to his new home just outside Cairo, the 32-year-old fisherman was overjoyed: His dream of quitting the slum where he had lived for years seemed to be coming (...)
CAIRO: Despite a number of positive economic indicators, Egypt has a hunger problem: Nearly a third of all children are malnourished, according to a new report compiled by the Ministry of Health and the UN Development Program (UNDP).
The Egyptian (...)
CAIRO: Officially, there were 9,126 Iraqi refugees registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Cairo in September, the second largest group after the Sudanese.
Most started arriving in late 2006, and in 2007 they constituted the largest (...)
CAIRO: Officially, there were 41,423 refugees registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Cairo in September. The Sudanese make up the biggest national group-22,689. Of these, about 35 percent are Southern Sudanese, according to UNHCR.
In (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Delta region faces a natural disaster of massive proportions by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to better manage scarce fresh water resources and come up with solutions to mitigate the effects of rising sea levels, according to (...)
NEW YORK: The world's largest for-profit healthcare products conglomerate, Johnson & Johnson (J&J), is suing the American Red Cross (ARC) over its use of the lifesaving emblem - the red cross on a white background.
On 8 August, J&J (...)
JOHANNESBURG: Following months of erratic weather local authorities and aid agencies warn they are stretched beyond capacity in Southern Africa, where unusually heavy rains, a string of cyclones, severe flooding and extreme drought continue to (...)
CAIRO: Bird flu awareness and reporting measures in Egypt are improving, and patient recovery rates are rising, health specialists say, because of better planning and co-operation between international bodies and the Egyptian government in tackling (...)
DUBAI: In its ongoing bid to promote a multilateral and coordinated approach to global aid provision, the United Nations is making a concerted effort to reach out to Arab and Muslim countries.
In doing so, senior UN officials have drawn on the (...)
CAIRO: Egypt will embark on a new nationwide campaign to vaccinate live poultry against avian influenza, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif said on Wednesday.
The plan comes after a second wave of the H5N1 influenza subtype in the country led to the (...)
5 million infected with Hepatitis C CAIRO: At least five million people in Egypt are infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), a new committee formed by the country's government to tackle the disease has said. It added that action must be taken now (...)
UNITED NATIONS: Citing grim daily indicators - 100 people killed, hundreds wounded and thousands displaced - an official with the United Nations refugee agency predicted that Iraq's humanitarian crisis will last for years, with ramifications (...)
Insecurity, corruption among Iraqi officials and weak US contract management have led to tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction aid going missing, a new audit report said on Wednesday.
The quarterly audit prepared by the office of the (...)
NAIROBI: The humanitarian crisis in the western Sudanese region of Darfur will deteriorate this year unless key political decisions involving the government, the Darfurian rebel groups and the international community are urgently taken, an (...)
CAIRO: A culture where the rights of children, especially those living rough and homeless, are intrinsically protected has yet to emerge in Egypt, according to child experts and testimonies of children themselves.
A number of awareness (...)
CAIRO: nadi was a teenager when she was sold into a short-term marriage by her father. "When I was 14, my father told me I was to be married to a man from Saudi Arabia, said Hanadi, who did not want to use her real name.
"Later on, I discovered (...)
CAIRO: With the onset of winter, there may be an increase in cases of the potentially lethal avian flu virus H5N1 among fowl and humans in Egypt, according to health ministry officials.
"In Egypt, as in the rest of the world, although we have all (...)
CAIRO: The poor in Egypt's heaving capital city, Cairo, are increasingly turning to selling cheap products in the street as a means to survive despite its limitations, say specialists.
"We have a 'street society' in Egypt. So when families need (...)