Jenin, Palestine (AFP): As Israeli forces pulled out of Jenin after a brutal military onslaught, its Palestinian residents came back to assess the devastation: trashed homes, charred cars and roads strewn with rubble, glass and bullet casings. The West Bank city has endured violence before, but the latest offensive was the heaviest in years, w...
BRASILIA, Brazil – Two business associations have joined forces to promote halal products in the South American country of Brazil. The Halal Brazil Project is a joint effort of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil). The project offers a series of trade shows and...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): The Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF), a multi-donor country-based pooled mechanism established to allocate funding for the most urgent interventions in Somalia, has allocated $25 million to provide life-saving assistance to drought-affected communities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) s...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): The UK government is providing £11.6 million (approximately $15 million) for Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar and local people affected by disasters across Bangladesh. The new package of UK support (160 Crore Taka) will provide food, water, and sanitation to Rohingya refugees, and child protection services to ref...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fierce fighting between the forces of rival generals shook the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday as disease and malnutrition threatened the rising number of displaced. Khartoum residents said they were shaken awake by warplanes and “violent fighting” between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan...
ISTANBUL (AA): A proposed overall ban in Malaysia on cigarettes and vaping starting with the generation now in its teens has again been delayed. Zaliha Mustafa, the country’s health minister, said on Monday that the bill – which would ban the use, purchase, and sale of cigarettes and vaping products to those born after 2007 […]
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – At least 450,000 children in Sudan have been forced to flee their homes due to the ongoing fighting, according to the UN children’s agency, UNICEF. For weeks the conflict-hit African nation has been engulfed by violence between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. An estimated 82,000...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): A “perfect storm” of overlapping crises forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, sending the number of internally displaced people to a record high. An unprecedented 71.1 million internally displaced people (IDPs) were registered in 2022 — up 20 percent from a year earlier...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): When a maternity hospital in the Sudanese capital came under bombardment, Esraa Hesbalrasoul snatched her premature twins from an incubator and rushed out in a panic. In the chaos, only one of the infants survived. Hesbalrasoul now tends to her baby in a small hospital in the capital’s twin city of Omdurman that [&...
London, United Kingdom (AFP): A UK court on Friday jailed Nigeria’s former deputy Senate president for nine years and eight months, following his landmark conviction for plotting to harvest a man’s kidney for his sick daughter. In the first UK case of its kind, judge Jeremy Johnson handed Ike Ekweremadu, 60, the prison sentence for...
