Foreign Ministry, WFP open Egypt-Sudan aid corridor: The Egyptian Foreign Ministry and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Egypt have opened a humanitarian aid corridor connecting Aswan and Wadi Halfa in Sudan, according to a WFP statement. The WFP, UN agencies, development organizations, and humanitarian partners can use the passageway to transport food and medical assistance to Sudanese citizens affected by the ongoing fighting in the country. “This humanitarian corridor is the result of the great partnerships that the Egyptian government has with development partners. We are now able to take our aid where it is most needed," said WFP Representative and Egypt Country Director Praveen Agrawal.

Mooted Cyprus-Israel gas link could replace plan for EastMed pipeline: Israeli gas fields could be connected directly to liquefaction facilities in Cyprus via a new pipeline that top officials from the two countries will start discussing next month, Reuters reports citing Cypriot Energy Minister George Papanastasiou. The project would be shorter and faster to build than the mooted EastMed pipeline linking Israel, Cyprus, and Greece, which Papanastasiou said was “cost intensive” and faced “technical issues.”

Could Cyprus compete with us to supply Europe with LNG? The new pipeline plan would also “give Israel another export outlet in addition to Egypt” for its gas, Reuters notes. Cyprus could potentially liquefy that Israeli gas for re-export to the rest of the EU — a market Egypt has been looking to corner since Russia dropped out as an energy supplier to the bloc in the wake of the war in Ukraine. Still, with our two liquefaction plants to Cyprus’ zero, that doesn’t look to be an immediate danger.

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