Egyptian Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mohamed Abdel Ati returned home on Saturday, following a visit to Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), during which he met a number of Congolese officials.
Minister Abdel Ati opened the Rain Forecast and Climate Change Centre in the Congolese capital during his visit.
The centre was constructed though an Egyptian grant. It aims to help the DRC aggrandise benefits from its water resources.
The project also aims to boost the fellow African state’s abilities to manage these water resources.
The Rain Forecast and Climate Changes Centre will assess the impact of climate change in the DRC and help mitigate the effects of this change on its different economic sectors.
The centre is operated by Congolese professionals who had been given training by the experts of the Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation.
The training especially focused on means of forecasting rains and floods.
It also included training in aerial imagery systems, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS), hydrologic modeling, and the writing of specialised technical reports.
The construction of the centre and continued Egyptian support to the DRC and other fellow African states comes in the light of Egypt’s keenness to transfer its integrated water management expertise to these countries.
Soon after arriving in Cairo, Abdel Ati said he had held a series of meetings with Congolese officials on means of enhancing co-operation in water management.
The meetings, he added, also focused on serving the interests of the two countries and the two peoples.
The Egyptian minister arrived in Kinshasa on Thursday. He was received by Congolese Deputy Prime Minister Eve Bazaiba and a host of senior government officials.
Egypt has been striving to increase co-operation with fellow states in the continent, adopting a series of initiatives to achieve this goal.
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