Egypt touts climate, flood control initiatives in Africa outreach

Climate change and flood forecasts pave the way for Egypt's foreign policy on the continent.
Lochaun John, who suffers from severe undernourishment, crawls into his hut in Lokupoi village, Moroto, Uganda, on March 28, 2008.
Lochaun John, who suffers from severe undernourishment, crawls into his hut in Lokupoi village, Moroto, Uganda, on March 28, 2008. He is in a part of Uganda that climate change is plunging into famine and is unable to make a living because he lives in Karamoja, one of the driest and least developed areas in Uganda. Africans are expected to face a severe lack of food and drinkable water by the end of the century. - WALTER ASTRADA/AFP via Getty Images
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Egypt has been investing in a new sector to boost its presence in Africa and the Nile Basin through managing climate change and providing flood and heavy rain forecasts, which are issues many African countries face.

On July 16, Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Ati inaugurated the Rain and Climate Changes Forecast Center in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The center was funded by an Egyptian grant exceeding $10 million.

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