Israel report: ‘Hamas will win legislative elections
Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian estimates suggest that Hamas will win legislative elections if they are held, a report by the Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom stated...
Month : October 2019
‘Killing without any reason’: Deaths in rural Ethiopia spark outcry
For decades, herders in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley have relied on guns to fend off rivals as well as hyenas and lions roaming the forests...
Time to be realistic in Syria policy by Yusuf Kanli
Right from the beginning, many people warned that Syria was no Iraq, Yemen or Libya. After 10 years of war of attrition that exhausted the...
How local radio boosts climate change adaptation
In the Horn of Africa, local radio stations provide updates on entertainment, sports and health, so why not weather and climate too? The Greater Horn...
EXCLUSIVE: UAE’s secret mission to Iran by David Hearst
Tahnoun bin Zayed, the national security adviser of the United Arab Emirates and the crown prince’s younger brother, has been in Tehran for the last...
Libya: ‘Arab League decisions manipulated by Egypt and UAE’
( Aview of a house hit by air strikes carried out by Haftar’s forces in Tripoli Libya.) Libya’s High Council of State on Sunday accused...
Revealed: Cameron and May lobbied Bahrain royals for Tory donor’s oil firm
Two former Conservative prime ministers lobbied a Middle Eastern royal family to award a multi-billion dollar oil contract to a company headed by a major...
Trump-Ukraine: John Bolton ‘sounded alarm about Giuliani’s actions’
The former US national security adviser, John Bolton, was reportedly so alarmed at a back-channel effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate Donald Trump’s political rivals...
World bank asks Sudan to pay $16bn debt arrears
(Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.) Sudan faces a long road to integration in the global financial system after the World Bank said it will not...
3 share Nobel Prize in economics for ‘experimental approach’ to solving poverty by Jeff Stein
The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded Monday to three researchers — including the youngest-ever recipient — whose approach to alleviating global poverty has been...