Egypt to begin project to convert sand into solar panels - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Rasha Mahmoud

Rasha Mahmoud

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY EMMY VARLEY Egyptian Hanna Fathy, an advocate of a biogas project in Egypt, inspects a solar panel installation on his rooftop in Cairo on November 20, 2009. In an attempt to help curb the city's stifling pollution and meet their energy needs too, a few Cairo families have begun to recycle waste -- now that the nation's pigs are gone -- by generating biogas from rubbish. AFP PHOTO/CRIS BOURONCLE (Photo credit should read CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP via Getty Images) — Hanna Fathy, an advocate of a biogas project in Egypt, inspects a solar panel installation on his rooftop in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 20, 2009. — Cris Bouroncle/AFP via Getty Images

The sun sets over the Nile River in Aswan 1,000 kms south of Cairo on May 13, 2010. Four African countries signed on May 14, 2010 a new treaty on the equitable sharing of the Nile waters despite strong opposition from Egypt and Sudan who have the lion's share of the river waters. AFP PHOTO/AMGAD FOUAD (Photo credit should read AMGAD FUAD/AFP/Getty Images)

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Menna A. Farouk

A municipal worker is lowered after adjusting a solar panel attached to the top of an electricity pylon along the central isle of a main road in Karada district, Baghdad, Iraq, May 24 2008.

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