{"id":202174,"date":"2025-07-11T08:36:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-overlooked-and-underestimated-sand-and-dust-storms-wreak-havoc-across-borders\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T08:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:36:28","slug":"egypt-overlooked-and-underestimated-sand-and-dust-storms-wreak-havoc-across-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-overlooked-and-underestimated-sand-and-dust-storms-wreak-havoc-across-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Overlooked and Underestimated &#8211; Sand and Dust Storms Wreak Havoc Across Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">There are three Great Pyramids at Giza in Egypt &#8211; but imagine if there were 307 of the mighty edifices. And then imagine that they had dissolved into over two billion tons of sand and dust particles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">That&#8217;s how much sand and dust enters the atmosphere on an annual basis according to the World Meteorological Organization (<a href=\"https:\/\/wmo.int\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WMO<\/a>)&#8217;s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/wmo.int\/news\/media-centre\/wmo-highlights-hotspots-health-hazards-and-economic-cost-of-sand-and-dust-storms?access-token=kLEOSacwVaAGGnGHULPx1Wg2jCY_zQflV_Xp39FQjCk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> on the storms which scatter such particles across borders worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The UN weather agency&#8217;s reports warns that while the amount of dust decreased marginally&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507110033.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three Great Pyramids at Giza in Egypt &#8211; but imagine if there were 307 of the mighty edifices. And then imagine that they had dissolved into over two billion tons of sand and dust particles. That&#8217;s how much sand and dust enters the atmosphere on an annual basis according to the World Meteorological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":202175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,8490,21057,4697,415,19163,257,41529,18838,254,16293,33242,23284],"class_list":["post-202174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-borders","tag-dust","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-havoc","tag-news","tag-overlooked","tag-sand","tag-south-africa-today","tag-storms","tag-underestimated","tag-wreak"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}