The International Saudi Falcons and Hunting Exhibition opened on 1 October at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center in Malham. The Saudi Press Agency said its ten-day programme spans falconry, hunting, adventure and educational activities.
Environment Agency–Abu Dhabi’s Resolution 03 of 2026 requires emissions reports from facilities in specified sectors above a defined threshold to be checked by accredited verifiers. The agency will also manage a digital database of registered facilities and verified emissions reports.
Source: Emirates News Agency (WAM), reporting the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi
NOVATEK and three research partners opened a greenhouse-gas station to study permafrost and tundra ecosystems in the Yamal-Nenets region. The announcement reports no measured emissions or carbon-removal result.
Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi said Egypt is targeting an additional 250 million cubic feet a day of natural gas from the Zohr and West Mina fields by year-end. This is a target, not a reported production increase.
Source: Egypt State Information Service / Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company
At a September 10 meeting, the two countries discussed the second phase of their electricity interconnection and repair needs in Sudan's damaged power infrastructure.
Source: Egypt State Information Service, Egypt & Africa
Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi said the Fayoum-4 well in the West Nile Delta began producing two years ahead of schedule. It is expected to add about 80 million standard cubic feet of gas a day.
Source: Egypt State Information Service / Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
Kuwait Oil Company’s October issue, listed on 3 October, describes a system that uses well data to predict hydrate formation and reports internal detection accuracy above 90%.
According to an 8 October UNICEF report, 202 of the 350 schools targeted in Ituri had received Ebola infection-control and water-and-hygiene kits. Teacher training is continuing.
Ai Everything Abu Dhabi opened at ADNEC with more than 400 exhibitors, over 180 speakers and more than 200 investors managing US$100 billion in assets.
Sudan’s coverage for the third dose of the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP3) vaccine rose from 39% in 2024 to 71% in 2025, according to a UNICEF assessment published on 7 September. Coverage for the first dose of measles vaccine also increased, from 46% to 68%.
The World Bank’s 9 October brief puts Egypt’s national-method poverty rate at 33.5% in 2021. Urban inflation was 14.9% in July 2026, while food made up more than 44% of spending among the poorest fifth of households.
The World Bank’s October 2026 country brief estimates poverty at the $3-a-day 2021-PPP line at 51.2% in 2026, compared with 51.7% in 2021. The figure is an estimate, not a newly released household-survey result.
Google Analytics can measure visits and site activity using cookies if you allow it. You can change your choice later.
Measurement and privacy details
Google Analytics measurement starts only if you allow it. After consent, automatic measurement may cover scrolls, outbound link clicks, downloads, video engagement, site searches and basic form interactions; search terms may be detected from URL parameters. This site’s own code does not send form field values; email redaction in automatic measurement is best-effort, not guaranteed. Our manual page-view event uses a cleaned URL. You can change your choice later. Visits that begin with consent may also send numeric LCP, INP and CLS performance measurements after Analytics loads. A first or later grant starts this on the next page load; withdrawing consent stops these performance reports for this page. The preference cookie lasts six months; advertising measurement and personalization stay off.
Your browser is sending a Global Privacy Control signal. Analytics is off by default; you may explicitly change this choice here.