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Environment

tunisia

Sousse port where hundreds of illegal containers of Italian household waste still wait to be sent back. (AFP)

Italy pressed to remove illegal waste shipment from Tunisia

Morocco

An electric bus runs in the southern Moroccan city of Marrakech. (AFP)

Morocco ranks best in MENA in 2021 Green Future Index

Oman

Former inhabitants of Wadi al-Murr gather near abandoned houses in the Omani village, about 400 kms south-west of the capital Muscat. (AFP)

Omanis rediscover village swallowed by the desert

environment

Abu Dhabi authority sees environment as key to future of farming

Iraqi water

A 2019 file picture shows wastewater flowing in central Basra, Iraq. (AP)

Shrinking water supplies threaten to put fragile Iraq ‘on the edge’

MENA

An Emirati man stands in front of rows of parabolic shaped mirrors at the Shams 1, Concentrated Solar power (CSP) plant, in al-Gharibiyah district on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. (AFP)

Lower solar energy cost can lead to brighter future

MENA

An aerial view of the solar mirrors at the Noor 1 Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant, some 20km (12.5 miles) outside the central Moroccan town of Ouarzazate. (AFP)

MENA sees future in new clean energy technology

MENA

Energy with potential. Wind turbines at a wind farm in the southwestern Moroccan city of Tarfaya . (AFP)

Wind energy is a ‘key technology’ with benefits for MENA

Oman

A desalination plant is seen in the Omani port city of Sur, November 27. (AFP)

Water-scarce Oman banks on desalination, at a cost