Day: July 7, 2022

Temperatures on Thursday are forecast to be around seasonal average, with moderate weather prevailing in the high areas, while it will be hot in the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea, and Aqaba, the Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said in its daily update.

Clouds will appear at low altitudes in the northern and central regions, with northwesterly moderate to brisk winds.

Similar weather will prevail on Friday and Saturday despite a slight rise in mercury levels, with northwesterly moderate winds, picking up in the Badia.

The highs in Amman and other highlands across Jordan today will range between 31 and 29 degrees Celsius, dropping at night to 20C or even 18C in the southern highlands. In the Gulf city of Aqaba, it will be hot with mercury reaching a high of 39C and a low of 26C.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Jordan’s real estate trade volume inched up by 17 percent in the first half of 2022, reaching JD2.636 billion, compared to the figure reported in the same period of 2021, according to a monthly report issued by the Department of Lands and Survey (DLS) on Thursday.

The report revealed that the state’s revenues during the January-June period of this year stood at JD119.1 million, up by 29 percent from the figure reported in the last year.

On a monthly level, the trade volume in the Jordanian real estate market went down in June of 2022 by 7 percent, amounting to JD559 million compared to the same month of 2021. Meanwhile, revenue in June of 2022 recorded a 6 percent increase, reaching JD26 million compared to the same month of 2021.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Ambassador of Venezuela in Jordan, Omar Vielma Osuna, affirmed the depth of relations between Jordan and his country, which are flourishing in various fields.

The Envoy’s remarks came late Wednesday during the opening ceremony of the “Trashumancia el Llano en movimiento” photo exhibition by the famous Venezuelan artist, Hector Valera Casama, displaying the development of livestock in Venezuela and its role in propping up the economy.

During the event, Osuna delivered a briefing on his country’s agricultural development and the importance of strengthening cooperation with Jordan in this aspect.

Source: Jordan News Agency

A Jordanian delegation participated in the third edition of Share-Net International’s (SNI) Co-Creation Conference held in Colombia from June 5 to 7.

The bi-annual conference addressed sex and reproductive health and rights, as well as technology, accessibility, knowledge translation, and new challenges such as combating misinformation in sexual and reproductive health, according to a Higher Population Council (HPS) statement released Thursday.

Representatives from the HPS-hosted Share-Net Jordan, the Higher Council of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the Royal Health Awareness Society were among those who took part in the online event.

The conference also discussed analyzing and editing language used in cognitive products, ensuring accessibility to targeted audiences, launching Share-Net International’s small grants tour, and enabling global entities to communicate and educate each other about sex and reproductive health.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Remittances of Jordanian expatriates doubled in the first week of July, President of the Jordanian Exchange Association Abdulsalam Al Saudi said on Thursday.

Speaking to the Jordan News Agency (Petra), Al Saudi indicated that money sent to the Kingdom mainly came from Jordanians in the Arab Gulf region and the United States.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, in collaboration with the Dutch Center for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI), on Thursday launched an online platform designated for marketing activities and exporting Jordanian agriculture products.

During the launching ceremony, Minister Khaled Hneifat said Jordan’s exports dramatically decreased in the last ten years due to border closures, noting that the ministry is on the look for new markets to boost agricultural exports.

The minister predicted that the new website would tap into new promising markets and help study relevant data, products, and production seasons in various countries, in addition to focusing production on high-yield crops in Jordan.

The platform is “efficient and effective” in serving the agriculture sector, allowing it to compete in global markets to benefit farmers and exporters, he indicated.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The majority of those injured in a recent chlorine gas leak incident in Aqaba had been discharged from hospitals, according to Aqaba’s Health Department Director Jamal Obeidat.

He said in a press release on Thursday that only three patients are still receiving treatment at the Specialty Hospital in the capital Amman, noting that they are in “fair condition.”

Caused by a snapped wire rope, the gas leak incident at the port city took 13 lives and injured more than 300 last month. The incident was investigated and the case is now in the hands of the public prosecutor’s office.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Dozens of young people from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, opinion leaders, and representatives from governments and the United Nations launched Wednesday in Amman a new game app called “WeRise” that aims to promote gender equality.

WeRise was developed by youth; for youth, with more than a hundred young volunteers from six MENA countries who developed the game’s contents with support from UN Women, according to a statement released Thursday by UN Women Country Office Jordan.

It is an edutainment app for smartphones, available in Arabic, French and English languages on android and ios stores featuring a multitude of competitions, word puzzles, and more, highlighting the critical role young people can play in bringing people together to promote gender equality, bring societies closer, and women’s and men’s rights and voices equal.

“We strongly believe in the role of young women and men to make communities and societies more just, inclusive, and as a result, more prosperous for all. Young people are a repository of the progress of societies across the Arab region, including in the rights of women and girls. Edutainment is a globally rising industry, expected to grow to 8.1 billion in the next ten years. And that is why UN Women, together with its partners, are part of this exciting development of a fun and informative app that will equip Youth throughout the Arab States and even globally with further knowledge around gender equality, making them even stronger agents for change within their communities and societies at large”, said Susanne Mikhail Eldhagen, UN Women Regional Director for Arab States.

UN Women and young volunteers from Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, and Jordan developed this game with support from the governments of Sweden and the Netherlands to question gender stereotypes and change attitudes towards discriminatory gender roles in the MENA region. The development of WeRise was done under the framework of the UN Women’s regional program, ‘Men and Women for Gender Equality,’ whose goal is to promote social norms and behavioral change in favor of gender equality.

“I am truly excited about the WeRise game app and hope it contributes to engaging more and more young men and women for gender equality and women’s empowerment in Jordan and across the MENA region. It’s encouraging to see the creativity in using gaming as a platform to educate, raise awareness, and foster discussions on gender roles and stereotypes,” said Alexandra Rydmark, Sweden’s Ambassador to Jordan.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Saleh Kharabsheh, on Thursday said the ministry is currently examining proposals of a number of renewable energy companies, which responded to its invitation to renegotiate prices of electric power generated from their green projects.

In a statement, he noted the ministry held talks with renewable energy companies operating 29 projects, during which all sides affirmed renegotiation is a measure, which is currently kicked off to reduce electric power costs.

This step also seeks to achieve justice among all companies operating in the sector and National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) and to achieve an “attractive and stable investment environment on solid foundations,” he pointed out.

The ministry received proposals from a number of companies and re-spoke to the remaining firms to submit their ideas to come up with the “appropriate” decisions, he noted, stressing the importance of responding to the ministry’s invitation.

To date, Kharabsheh lauded contribution of private sector companies and their cooperation with the ministry, NEPCO and sector stakeholders in achieving “great” successes in the Kingdom’s renewable energy field, which covered 26% by the end of 2021 of the total electric energy’s consumption.

In early February, the ministry sent invitations to renewable energy companies to relaunch negotiations on the selling prices of the electric energy generated from their projects, and later asked other firms to submit their proposals.

Source: Jordan News Agency