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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
CAIRO – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ordered the government on Sunday to ban the growing of ornamental plants in what he characterized as a bid to preserve water and ensure the growing of useful crops “God willing, there will be no drop of water that we can use that we will not use and no piece of land that we can plant that we won’t plant,” Sisi told top officials during the inauguration of a number of agricultural projects in the Toshka area in the western Egyptian desert. Sisi’s statements came amid Egypt’s bitter dispute with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GE…