Monthly Archives: September 2018

Regional report #1 analysis on ” UN: Syria’s Idlib could face worst catastrophe this century” news article

In Syria, the rebel heald provenance of Idlib is being bombed by the Syrian government. The government might be ending the rebellion, but they are also killing and displacing many others. The crisis in Syria will only get worse when Russia and Turkey help the Syrian government in launching a major offensive on the rebel-held provenance.  The Syrian war has been… Read more »

Analysis – Yemen

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Two children were killed after airstrikes from the Saudi-UAE military alliance hit an impoverished district of Yemen. This attack is nothing new, as the Saudi-UAE military alliance has been carrying out airstrikes ever since the resignation of former Yemen President Abu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in 2015. The Saudi-UAE military alliance has logistical support from the United States and the UN is… Read more »

Overworked, abused, hungry: Vietnamese domestic workers in Saudi

Hoa Binh, Vietnam – Pham Thi Dao lives in an abandoned house with her seven-year-old daughter Hong Anh, off the beaten track from the central town of Hoa Binh province, southwest of Hanoi. Dao, 46, was a domestic worker in Saudi Arabia for more than seven months until she returned to Vietnam in April. “I worked from 5am until 1am in the morning, and was… Read more »

Syrian air defences ‘intercept missiles’ targeting Latakia

Syrian air defences have intercepted and downed missiles targeting several locations in the northwestern city of Latakia, according to state media. The official SANA news agency said on Monday that “state technical industry institutions” in Latakia had been targeted, blaming Israel for the strikes. “Air defences have confronted enemy missiles coming from the sea in the direction of the Latakia… Read more »

Gaza protests: All the latest updates

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For more than five months, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have protested along the fence with Israel demanding their right to return to the homes and land their families were expelled from 70 years ago. The Great March of Return rallies culminated on May 15 to mark what Palestinians refer to as the Nakba, or Catastrophe – a reference to the forced removal of… Read more »

‘Why were they killed?’: Saudi-UAE attack hits children in Yemen

It was what everyone dreaded – two dead children. After sifting through a home turned to rubble, rescue workers finally found the bodies of three-year-old Nabil and new-born baby girl Sumood. Just moments earlier on Saturday, a Saudi-UAE military alliance, which has been carrying out air attacks on Yemen since March 2015, bombed their home in Saada province’s Marran district, an impoverished… Read more »

Ethiopia: Thousands protest after deadly ethnic violence

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Ethiopian capital to express their anger after a weekend of deadly ethnically motivated violence. At least 23 people were killed in a weekend of unrest targeting minorities in the ethnic Oromo heartland on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, police said on Monday.