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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

Morocco

Agricultural land in Benguerir region near Marrakech. (Saad Guerraoui)

Morocco faces risk of another drought season

Iraqi

An Iraqi youth jumps in the Euphrates river near the water-wheels in Hit, Iraq, July 23. (Reuters)

New app predicts water-related conflict up to year in advance

Climate change

Demonstrators roll a giant globe through a street as they take part in a so-called Climate March in Bonn, Germany. (AFP)

Europeans fear climate change more than terrorism or migration

environment

Visitors look at screens displaying images of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Solar Park at the solar plant in Dubai. (AFP)

Hot Sahara sun could ensure cleaner future

Egypt

Choking the river. Egyptian volunteers collect waste and plastic as part of a campaign to clean up the Nile River.(Reuters)

Egypt steps up campaign against sea plastic waste

Marc Espanol-34622

Egypt

Asma Mohamed Abdalla (L) the newly appointed Sudanese Foreign Monister receives her Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on September 9. (AFP)

Egypt and Ethiopia in row over Blue Nile dam

Egypt

Cement barriers reinforce the sea wall near the Citadel of Qaitbay in Alexandria. (AP)

Alexandria battles climate change

Hassan Abdel Zaher

Lebanon

Workers are seen at a waste treatment plant east of Beirut. (AFP)

Something is rotten in the state of Lebanon