Blasts rock Khartoum as warring sides affirm humanitarian pledge

  • KHARTOUM: Airstrikes pummeled Khartoum on Saturday, with representatives of Sudan’s warring factions meeting in Saudi Arabia for talks to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe” as the fighting entered a fifth week. A witness in west Khartoum reported army airstrikes on paramilitary forces, as b...
·

Sudan’s descent into chaos shatters illusion of safety for war-weary Syrians

  • LONDON: From the beginning of the protracted conflict pitting the regime against its opponents, Syrians fled their country in droves. Some risked life and limb to smuggle themselves and their families out of Syria over land, by sea, or any other routes available to them. Opinion Thi...
·

Concern grows over traffickers targeting Ukrainian refugees

  • SIRET: One man was detained in Poland suspected of raping a 19-year-old refugee he’d lured with offers of shelter after she fled war-torn Ukraine. Another was overheard promising work and a room to a 16-year-old girl before authorities intervened. Another case inside a refugee camp at Poland’s...
·

How political dysfunction precipitated Lebanon’s healthcare collapse

  • LONDON: Lebanon’s health system is in a precarious state following wave upon wave of political and economic crisis. As the country reels from medical supply shortages, COVID-19 case surges and an exodus of skilled medical professionals, the urgency of the sector’s need for outside help is no lo...
·

The politics of Afghan refugees

  • From all witness accounts inside Afghanistan, there is no amassing of Afghan refugees on the borders. There is however, a genuine humanitarian crisis. This crisis has been around for at least a year. It involves food drought, no salaries and no income with most government officials not having ...
·

Ramadan drama ‘Um Haroun’ conjures up a religiously harmonious Middle East

  • LONDON: If the very best drama seeks not only to entertain but also to educate and provoke debate on the pressing issues of the day, then MBC’s hit Ramadan series “Um Haroun” must surely be in the running for multiple awards. Before even a single episode had aired, controversy had flared over...
·

Greek renaissance could benefit the Arab world

  • Shortly before Greece’s recent election, the gifted orator and then-Prime Minister Alexei Tsipras delivered a rousing speech to a cheering throng of supporters, at one point declaring that his main opponent could not achieve what he was experiencing at that moment: An adoring crowd. “They can’t...
·

England’s northern ports look to prosper from Brexit

  • IMMINGHAM, United Kingdom: Brexit has brought hope to the windswept docks of the Humber River, a key goods gateway in northeast England where tens of millions of pounds are being invested to prepare for a potential increase in shipping. In Immingham, a gritty town of around 11,000 inhabitants ...
·

Is Britain negotiating itself into a corner over Brexit?

  • Even during the bitterest of negotiations, it is usually expected that the opposing parties should incrementally move closer together. Yet in the Brexit talks, Britain and the EU seem to be edging further apart. ...
·

It is not about money, but PR power

  • A donation of $25,000 to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which helps Palestinian refugees abandoned and abused by Israel, may not sound like much, but it is. The donation came from Kal Penn, an actor starring in the hit TV series “Designated Survivor” as a White House spokesman.Penn, who...
·

Pages