scholarly journals Contribution of Nutrients and some Trace Metals from a Huge Egyptian Drain to the SE-Mediterranean Sea, west of Alexandria

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.A. EL-RAYIS ◽  
M.A.M. ABDALLAH
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
North African ◽  
Inorganic N ◽  
Total Load ◽  
Technical Report Series ◽  
Technical Report ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Aswan High Dam ◽  
Reactive Phosphorus ◽  
Polluted Lake

In 2003 the MAP Technical Report Series 141, mentioned the lack of data concerning the flux of water, sediments and pollutants from North-African rivers and from the land-based sources to the Mediterranean Sea.In Egypt, the Omoum drain, after the construction of the Aswan High Dam and the controlling of the Nile River water fl ow, has become one of the main land-based sources regularly discharging its waters (fl ow rate 2547.7 x 106 m3/year) directly into the Mediterranean Sea at EL-Mex Bay, west of Alexandria. Downstream, before it reaches the sea, its water mixes with water effl uent (surplus water) from a neighboring sewage-polluted lake called Lake Maryout, rate 262.8 x 106 m3/year.The present work is a monthly study over a year of levels of concentration of some mainly trace elements (nutrients and some heavy metals) in the proper water of the drain before mixing and in the effl uent from the lake, and calculations of both the concentrations and the corresponding expected loads of these elements contributed by the drain to the sea. The results revealed that the respective loads to the sea are 77380 ton/year for total suspended matter, 823 tons/year for dissolved PO4 -P, 4745 tons/year for inorganic N, 23.7 tons/year for Fe, 3.28 tons/year for Mn, 5.84 tons/year for Cu, 2.9 ton/year for Cd, and 24 tons/year for Zn. The elements loaded by the lake effl uent represent values ranging between 8 and 57.5% of the total load contributed by the drain to the sea. The plant nutrients (ammonia and reactive phosphorus) are of values exceeding 44%.

scholarly journals The clandestine cemetery

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Zagaria
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Waste Dump ◽  
North African ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Dead

The Mediterranean Sea has recently become the deadliest of borders for illegalised travellers. The victims of the European Union’s liquid border are also found near North African shores. The question of how and where to bury these unknown persons has recently come to the fore in Zarzis, a coastal town in south-east Tunisia. Everyone involved in these burials – the coastguards, doctors, Red Crescent volunteers, municipality employees – agree that what they are doing is ‘wrong’. It is neither dignified nor respectful to the dead, as the land used as a cemetery is an old waste dump, and customary attitudes towards the dead are difficult to realise. This article will first trace how this situation developed, despite the psychological discomfort of all those affected. It will then explore how the work of care and dignity emerges within this institutional chain, and what this may tell us about what constitutes the concept of the human.

Globalization, the Media, and Challenges of Illegal Migration for Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 194-215
Author(s):  
Benjamin Enahoro Assay
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
North African ◽  
Illegal Migration ◽  
Cable News ◽  
African Migrants ◽  
Illegal Migrants ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Cable News Network

There is a growing concern about African migrants who risk their lives to embark on hazardous journeys across dozens of borders and the treacherous waves of the Mediterranean Sea in search of a better life in Europe. Cable News Network footage of a live auction in Libya, where black youths were presented to north African buyers as potential farmhands and sold for as little as $400 confirm the fears and brought to the fore the ugly reality of the plight of illegal migrants. Aside, the narratives in the media about migration also give cause for concern. In the midst of the general invisibility of illegal migrants in the media, most portrayals refer to migrants in connection with themes of ‘trafficking', ‘prostitution', ‘slavery', and ‘death' because cases of enslavement, drowning, and killings of trafficked Africans in search of utopia greener pastures flood newspapers, magazines, and broadcast space. It is against this backdrop that this chapter proffers solutions and recommends ways to halt illegal migration and change media narratives about migration in Africa.

scholarly journals Nutrients, trace metals and B-vitamin composition of the Moulouya River: A major North African river discharging into the Mediterranean Sea

2016 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 47-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Tovar-Sánchez ◽  
Gotzon Basterretxea ◽  
Mostapha Ben Omar ◽  
Antoni Jordi ◽  
David Sánchez-Quiles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Trace Metals ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
North African ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
B Vitamin

scholarly journals Phylogeography of Aphanius fasciatus (Osteichthyes: Aphaniidae) in the Mediterranean Sea, with a focus on its conservation in Cyprus

Hydrobiologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Langeneck ◽  
Chris Englezou ◽  
Matteo Di Maggio ◽  
Alberto Castelli ◽  
Ferruccio Maltagliati
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Glacial Refugium ◽  
Small Fish ◽  
North African ◽  
Aphanius Fasciatus ◽  
The Mediterranean

AbstractAphanius fasciatus is a small fish occurring in Mediterranean brackish environments. In Cyprus it is known from three localities separated by long stretches of coast. The genetic diversity of these populations was evaluated using fragments of two mitochondrial genes. A comparison with the other available data showed that Cyprus populations represent a distinct lineage. The other lineages are concentrated in a relatively small area between the Strait of Sicily and the Western Ionian Sea, while all other areas include a subset of these lineages, suggesting that the aforementioned area might have acted as a glacial refugium. Landlocked North-African populations diverge from all other populations, suggesting that they might have originated in the Late Pleistocene, during transgression events of the Mediterranean Sea in North-African inland water bodies. The genetic diversity of A. fasciatus varied across different Cyprus populations, with a pattern mirroring the degree of environmental degradation, which likely affected population genetic variability through demographic reductions. The three Cyprus populations showed genetic uniqueness, suggesting the need of population-based management practices; the low genetic diversity of two populations, and the number of threats affecting them, suggest that the species should be considered endangered at national level and deserves protection measures.

scholarly journals The Greek Community in Tunis through 16th – 17th Centuries

Chronos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Antonios Chaldeos
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
North Africa ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
North African ◽  
The North ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
The Mediterranean

The region of North Africa, because of its geographical position in the Mediterranean basin, was a perpetual field of cultural osmosis and religious syncretism. Since Tunisia is located in the centre ofthe Mediterranean Sea and the North African coast, people of different nationalities, races and religions used to live there. The 16th century, marked by the conflicts of the Spanish kings with the Ottoman Empire for supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea. In the early 16th century, the North Africa coast was the base for the pirates acting in the Mediterranean such as the Barbarossa brothers, who, after the conquest of Algiers, took the place of the trustee in the name of the High Port. In the second half of the 16th century, Spain took under control several coastal cities, but only for only a short period, since they were conquered by the Ottoman Empire. The first Ottoman conquest ofTunis took place in 1534 under the command of Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha, the younger brother of Oruq Reis, who was the Kapudan Pasha of the Ottoman Fleet during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. However, only in 1574, Kapudan Pasha UluqAli Reis managed to integrate Tunisia into the Ottoman Empire (Spencer 1995: 73; Braudel 1976: 1066-1068). The Ottoman reign established permanently in the area, creating the eyalets of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli (Hess 2010: 253). The expansion of the Ottomans in North Africa, from Libya to Algeria, and the suppression of the Admiral Sinan Pasha of the Knights of Malta

scholarly journals Role of the Mediterranean Sea in differentiating European and North African woodland bird assemblages

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Correia ◽  
A. M. A. Franco ◽  
J. M. Palmeirim
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
North African ◽  
Bird Assemblages ◽  
The Mediterranean

Aeromonas dhakensis pneumonia and sepsis in a neonate Risso’s dolphin Grampus griseus from the Mediterranean Sea

2015 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Pérez ◽  
ML Abarca ◽  
F Latif-Eugenín ◽  
R Beaz-Hidalgo ◽  
MJ Figueras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Grampus Griseus ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Risso's Dolphin
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