Author: Athanasios Koutoupas
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Egypt Heads Project to Connect 10 African Countries through Nile Shipping Line
Egyptian Minister of Water and Irrigation Moahmed Abdel Aty announced the completion of an annual report which highlights the results of the early stages of the feasibility studies. Egypt signed a feasibility studies contract with a German-Belgian international consultancy office, using $650,000 in funding from the African Development Bank, after having completed a pre-feasibility study…
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EuroAfrica cable enters crucial phase
The officials attending the signing ceremony in Cairo endorsed their commitment to implementing the EuroAfrica Interconnector energy bridge connecting Egypt, Cyprus, and Greece with the European electric network with 2000MW. The aim of EuroAfrica is to offer significant economic and geopolitical benefits to the involved countries and contribute to the European Union’s target for 10…
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Total to start exploratory drilling off Cyprus with Greece following
What made this possible was the discovery of the Egypt’s Zohr deposit. Experts argue that the chances for deposits of similar value in Cyprus’ neighboring Block 11 have really increased. Three companies so far have been awarded exploration licenses by Cyprus: Total, ExxonMobil and ENI. Total also plans to start similar drilling activities to Greece as well,…
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The Statue of Liberty was modeled after an Arab woman
The statue’s designer, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, was enamored with Egyptian pyramids and monumental sculpture. According to historian Edward Berenson, in the 1860s, Bartholdi decided to build a monument to commemorate the opening of Egypt’s Suez Canal. “And that monument was going to be a woman in the southern opening of the canal holding up a torch…