Articles tagged with: Camp David Accords
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Wednesday, 8 Feb, 2012
Nabil Al-Arabi was poised to crown a long career as an international lawyer and civil servant in Egypt’s foreign ministry after he accepted the position of Foreign Minister in the first post-Mubarak cabinet in 2011. Three months later, he became the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States. Now, thanks to the crisis in Syria, the forces that elevated him to this position could ensure that his career concludes with a failure.
Born in 1935 in Cairo, Al- Arabi began his t...
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Tuesday, 21 Dec, 2010
The 23 million landmines lying under the country’s soil provide additional impediments to Egypt’s economic growth. Most of the mines were laid by Axis and Allied powers during World War II. Egypt has sought international cooperation in their demining efforts, a task which the government alone cannot afford. Removing the 17.5 million landmines in the El-Alamain fields would cost approximately $20 billion. In the meantime, the landmines harm and kill hundreds of people every year, ...
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