People everywhere in the middle east are suffering. And many of those people have become hopeless and lost any positivity in their lives. What i learned from researching is that people would much rather die in efforts to reconstruct their country, opposing to be killed by the hands of their own government. And to be completely fair no one should… Read more »
The UN’s Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed is briefing Security Council members on the latest situation in the country where war has caused a humanitarian catastrophe. It is the first consultation since a United Nationsreport blamed the Saudi-led coalition for causing the deaths of hundreds of children. But air raids have continued, and survivors are struggling to cope…. Read more »
Far from the force that swept across Iraq in mid-2014 and seized control of nearly a third of the country, ISIL today has been weakened significantly, relegated to just a few dozen square kilometres of ground, with manpower in the low thousands. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group was removed last week from yet another stretch… Read more »
The Saudis have been collecting large amounts of US and UK weaponry, most likely just keeping them for the worst-case scenario. The United Kingdom is keeping a close eye on the final use of weapons it sells to Saudi Arabia, according to a top diplomat. Matthew Rycroft, the UK’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, told reporters on Tuesday that the country has measures… Read more »
there are still many things going on in the middle east and northern Africa every single day. it is always one of the biggest centers for news. currently Algeria is trying to build another natural gas site, after only one year ago it got attacked by Al-Qaeda terrorist group. of course the hesitance in this is what if they get… Read more »
Hundreds of thousands of refugees are making their way to Europe. Although this number is smaller than the millions pouring into Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan, it is a crisis dividing Europe. Many Europeans are uneasy and concerned about what they feel is a lack of control and wonder who is coming and whether their societies can cope. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/inthefield/2015/10/syrian-refugee-europe-151023102805897.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/09/refugee-crisis-escaping-syria-europe-unknown-150921122422522.html He slept rough, and, like many others, Saadalden risked a perilous crossing with nearly 60 scared people crammed together on a rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean – a desperate journey that has killed nearly 3,000 people so far this year, according to theUnited Nations. Unlike the hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria who have passports, Saadalden is Palestinian and so,… Read more »
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time in public on Tuesday. The meeting came ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in what Egypt said was part of an effort to revive the Palestinian-Israeli diplomatic talks. It has been almost four decades since former Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat extended a… Read more »
In September 2014, we were invited by the president’s office to come and film in Somalia. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is heading up the latest in a series of short-lived administrations since the country’s descent into chaos that followed the fall of the Siad Barre dictatorship in 1989. In order to build peace MP’s were selected by elders to represent… Read more »
One year ago, a terrorist attack on a natural gas facility in southern Algeria led to the deaths of 67 people after Algerian troops tried to rescue hundreds of hostages taken by an al-Qaeda-linked group. Now, for the first time in three years, Algeria has opened a new set of potential oil and gas fields to international bidders. The bidding… Read more »