Shoukry touts African solidarity for COP27: Egypt will be “speaking for Africa” at this year’s COP27 climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has said, according to a ministry statement. Shoukry, who will lead the government’s efforts on COP27, made the comments during a meeting of a high-level African committee on climate change on the sidelines of a two-day African Union summit.

Affordable climate finance for the continent is set to be a key theme at COP27, with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and International Cooperation Minister Rania Al Mashat among those to have trailed the issue in recent months.

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