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Destruction caused by fighting in Yarmouk, Syria.

Wide view of the Security Council Chamber.

Children attend classes in Yemen, where over 600 schools have been damaged as a result of conflict.

Children attend a puppet theatre in the Al-Mahareeq area in Aden, Yemen.

Damage caused by fighting in Abyan Governorate, southern Yemen.

Natalia and her little brother, Ivan, stand in the bomb shelter where they and their mother have sought refuge as a result of the ongoing conflict, in the city of Donetsk in Ukraine.

Gilles de Kerchove

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to journalists at the Security Council stakeout.

This author spent a week in Egypt from March 9-16 (three days in Cairo and four in Sharm El-Sheikh in South Sinai) and was invited to speak at the International Water Technology Conference (IWTC.info) on saving Lake Chad and the Transaqua project, and was able to closely monitor the Egypt Economic Development Conference. The two conferences were held simultaneously in Sharm El-Sheikh in south Sinai (March 12-16). Egyptian government officials such as Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Dr. Husam Mughazi and the Minister of Scientific Research visited the IWTC and spoke there, where EIR’s ideas and materials were delivered to Dr. Mughazi personally.