DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) and Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) on Monday announced that the UAE has become the first country in the world to produce aluminium using the power of the sun. Under an agreement signed on Monday, Dewa will supply EGA’s smelter with solar power from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Masdar announced on Monday that it is joining forces with the Abu Dhabi Department of Energy, Etihad Airways, Lufthansa Group, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Siemens Energy, and Marubeni Corporation in an initiative designed to support the development of Abu Dhabi’s green hydrogen economy. Senior executives from each organisation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ...

HARGEISA / WAM A delegation from the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation has opened two hospitals in the Republic of Somaliland. The first, is the “Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Hospital,” in the city of Berbera, northwestern Somalia, and the second, is a specialised hospital for women, childbirth and neonatal care, in the city of Burao, the second ...