KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The World Bank will provide the World Food Program (WFP) with $100 million to address food insecurity in Sudan, the WFP said on Wednesday. The humanitarian organization said in a statement that the funds will be used to provide food and cash transfers for over two million people across the country. […]
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordanian King Abdullah II met with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid in the capital Amman on Wednesday. The meeting was the first between the Jordanian monarch and Lapid since the latter assumed his post last month. Talks between the two sides focused on the stalled peace process between Israel and the […]
Mosul, Iraq – (AFP): Rockets hit the vicinity of the Turkish consulate in Iraq’s main northern city of Mosul causing damage. However, no casualties have been reported. The overnight fire came after deadly shelling allegedly by the Turkish army which killed nine civilians last week, prompting anti-Turkish protests in cities across I...
Beirut, Lebanon – (AFP): Lebanon’s parliament has approved a $150 million World Bank loan to import wheat, as shortages of subsidised bread intensify in the cash-strapped country. Long lines have formed in front of bakeries and supermarkets where people wait hours for a bag of subsidised Arabic bread — in short supply as a lo...
Beirut, Lebanon – (AFP): Grain silos at Beirut’s blast-hit port are at risk of collapsing after a fire this month, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has revealed a week before the explosion’s second anniversary. “The northern group of silos are now in danger of falling,” Najib Mikati announced in a statemen...
Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP): Hundreds of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr danced and sang in parliament Wednesday after storming Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone in protest over a rival bloc’s nomination for prime minister. Police fired barrages of tear gas in a bid to stop the protesters from breaching the gates ...
Karachi, Pakistan – (AFP): The monsoon, which usually lasts from June to September, is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but also brings a wave of destruction each year. This year’s monsoon is being felt hardest in cities, where poor infrastructure and services lead to cl...
ano, Nigeria – (AFP): Thirteen scrap-metal collectors in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state were killed when a bomb they excavated blew up, security sources told AFP on Tuesday. Sixteen metal scavengers from a displaced persons’ camp in Bama found the bomb while digging for scrap on Monday in the bush on the outskirts of town. &...
Lake Dukan, Iraq – (AFP): Farmers in Iraqi Kurdistan seeking to irrigate crops face seeing their economic lifeline slip away as the waters of Lake Dukan recede and dams upstream in Iran stem the flow. The large artificial lake was created in the 1950s following construction of the Dukan dam, to supply irrigation and drinking […]
Tunis, Tunisia – (AFP): Tunisia’s main opposition alliance on Tuesday accused President Kais Saied’s electoral board of falsifying turnout figures, saying his referendum on a new constitution had “failed.” Tunisians voted on Monday on a draft charter that would give the president unchecked powers, a year after Sai...
