Dubai / WAM Canada confirmed its participation in Expo 2020 Dubai on Saturday, with the aim to explore trade opportunities and access new markets during the next World Expo platform. The G7 nation’s participation was sealed during two separate high-level meetings between Jim Carr, Canada’s Minister of International Trade Diversification, Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and ...

HODEIDAH / WAM Integrated solar power energy systems have been installed in the villages of Ghalifqa and Taif in Hodeidah, Yemen. The systems, installed by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), will provide electricity to 230 homes within the Yemeni villages. According Mohammed Al Junaibi, ERC Director of Humanitarian Affairs in Yemen, the solar power energy systems contain two panels and ...

ABYAN / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), responded to an emergency call by civilians in Hammat Sarar in Yemen’s Abyan Governorate. The emergency aid convoy consisted of 250 food parcels to some 200 families in Hammat Sarar, situated via rugged mountain roads four kilometres away from Abyan. Accompanying the UAE aid convoy, Saleh Qasim, Director-General of the Sarar Directorate, ...