Jan Egeland told the BBC the failure to persuade the Syrian government, their ally, to allow desperately ill children to be evacuated from the Eastern Ghouta showed “complete impotence”. Another two civilians died this week while waiting for permission to leave.
Once we thought having slaves, and buying and selling slaves was over. Its starting up again. Migrants in Libya are being sold for at least 400 US dollars. The people were going to Libya for a new start at life, but once they got there, they were on “sale” for auction. Human beings are being sold again, not pieces of… Read more »
From the start, the case of the missing Lebanese prime minister strayed wildly from the mainstream of the Middle East’s usual plots. Everything that has followed Saad Hariri’s sudden and reportedly forced resignation last week has struck the same startling tenor: his apparent house arrest, the Saudi Arabia-Lebanon mutual accusations of declaring war, the French president’s sudden in-person intervention.
Ali Tuwaileb who is in charge of a high security anti-organised crime complex in Misratah where the bodies of Islamic State (IS) group fighters are being stored opens one of the refrigerated containers at a make-shift morgue on October 26, 2017 © Mahmud Turkia / AFP 1.2K Hundreds of corpses of slain Islamic State militants have been kept in refrigerated… Read more »
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — “Eight hundred,” says the auctioneer. “900 … 1,000 … 1,100 …” Sold. For 1,200 Libyan dinars — the equivalent of $800. Not a used car, a piece of land, or an item of furniture. Not “merchandise” at all, but two human beings. One of the unidentified men being sold in the grainy cell phone video obtained… Read more »
Egypt’s feared former security chief is reportedly advising Saudi Arabia’s crown prince amid mass arrests of the kingdom’s elite and allegations of physical abuse during their detention. Habib el-Adly – who reportedly fled Egypt after his corruption conviction last April – is in Saudi Arabia, the New York Times quoted an Adly adviser and a former Egyptian interior minister as… Read more »
A series of attacks targeting Christians and forced churches to close. This caused the Christian population to call to authorities for help. Authorities sealed off two churches in the southern province, citing harassment and attacks by extremists. A third close was due to fear of attack. It said, “clashes broke out Friday when ultraconservative Muslims tried to attack one of the… Read more »
Egypt has been one of the worst places for Christian persecution in recent months. A series of attacks targeting Christians and forced closure of churches have caused Egypt’s Christian population to call on authorities for help. The Minya Coptic Orthodox Diocese said authorities sealed off two churches in the southern province, citing harassment and attacks by extremists. A third was… Read more »
TEL AVIV, Israel — In a dusty detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, Tomas Yomani, an asylum seeker from Eritrea in East Africa, has been biding his time for nine months while under the watch of Israeli guards. Yomani, 30, can’t work because the nearest city is hours away. And if he misses roll call taken three times a day, he could be deported to… Read more »
Kuwait’s entire cabinet resigned Monday, less than a week after the opening of its parliament — and following the interrogation of one of its members during a parliamentary session. Under Kuwait’s constitution, the prime minister’s resignation triggers the resignation or removal of the entire cabinet — and the prime minister on Monday submitted his resignation to Kuwait’s emir, who accepted it. The parliament’s speaker… Read more »