Tehran, Iran - Iranian authorities have urged residents to limit water consumption as the country grapples with severe shortages amid an ongoing heatwave, local media said Sunday. Water scarcity is a major issue in Iran, particularly in arid provinces in the country's south, with shortages blamed on mismanagement and overexploitation...
Improving power situation in Libya brightens life
Till last year, outages could last 20 hours, turning the streets dark and leaving residents sweltering in temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius.
Iraq to pay for Iranian gas imports with oil: Iraqi PM
The Iraqi prime minister said the decision to pay for Iranian gas imports with oil corresponds with the mechanism agreed with the US in order not to violate the sanctions. Gas is crucial for Iraq's electricity generation, but US sanctions on Iranian oil and gas impose restrictions on how Baghdad...UN chief calls for ceasefire in Sudan, says conflict may affect region
Foreign nations pushed with evacuations of their citizens from Sudan which, the UN chief warned, is "on the edge of the abyss" after 10 days of brutal fighting between rival forces. As army and paramilitary troops again clashed in Khartoum and across the country, Sudanese have sheltered in their homes...
Climate change fuelling cholera surge, says WHO
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - Climate change is fueling a global cholera upsurge, the WHO said Friday, warning the situation was compounded by vaccine shortages and will only worsen unless it is stamped out soon. The World Health Organization is responding to cholera outbreaks in 29 countries, including Haiti, which has over 1,200...
UK in talks with Qatar and Norway to import energy
Amid crippling energy shortages, the British government is negotiating with Qatar and Norway to secure new long-term gas contract, according to media reports. The reports said that Prime Minister Liz Truss is in favor of the deal, which would secure long-term energy sources and cut down the cost of the...
MENA firms need defense mechanism against inflation
Winning firm can still seize the current moment with bold, decisive actions to address the near term, while building strategies for the medium and long term. Supply chain resilience, operational productivity, design-to-value programs, and revenue growth management (RGM) shouldbe the key focus area, they add.Aramco says global energy transition goals unrealistic
Oil giant Saudi Aramco's chief blasted "unrealistic" energy transition plans, calling for a "new global energy consensus", including ramped-up investments in fossil fuels to address painful shortages. Speaking at a conference in Switzerland, Amin Nasser lamented a "deep misunderstanding" of what caused the current energy crunch.Iraq’s summer of ‘hell’ has just begun
Umm Mohammed, 74, waves a fan back and forth to cool down, but in the blistering heat of Iraq's southern city of Basra there is nothing but stiflingly hot air.
Rainless Morocco struggles with water supply shortage
As Morocco withers under its worst drought in 40 years, experts warn that a combination of climate change and bad resource management could trigger severe drinking water shortages.
Lebanon raises fuel prices as subsidies are phased out
Lebanon has gradually increased fuel prices in recent months because the cash-strapped central bank can no longer afford to fund fuel imports.Hezbollah says Iran fuel will reach Lebanon Thursday to ease shortages
BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has said that the first delivery of Iranian fuel would arrive Thursday in Lebanon to help ease dire shortages in the embattled country. Lebanon is facing one of its worst-ever economic crises, with more than three out of four Lebanese considered to be under the...
Syrian workers head home as Lebanon collapses
The World Bank has already called Lebanon’s economic crisis one of the worst in the world since the mid-1800s.
Lebanon buries victims of fuel tank blast
The explosion on Sunday in the Akkar region scorched crowds clamoring for petrol that the army was distributing in light of severe fuel shortages.
Lebanon water supply could collapse in 4-6 weeks, says Unicef
Unicef has estimated that water supply in Lebanon may collapse altogether over the next month and a half
More blackouts ahead as Lebanon generators starved of fuel
National run power network is prone to blackouts Officials blame the shortages on stockpiling, smuggling The owners of private generators that provide a vital backup to Lebanon's decrepit power grid warned Wednesday of their own cuts due to lack of fuel as the country's economic crisis deepens. The national network...
