Conflicts that spiral into ungovernable conditions are often eventually reduced to humanitarian crises prompting UN agencies and other aid groups to operate in hyperdrive as they attempt to respond to the fast-changing realities on the ground.
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Residents of Hadaba in South Sinai's Sharm El-Sheikh stood in front of cranes, bulldozers, and backhoes on 30 April, blocking them from resuming what they claim is the destruction of reefs on the Red Sea coastline.
The cliff – which runs from Sharm (...)
A cohort of 18 professional child caregivers were the first to be internationally certified across Egypt and the Arab world after completing an internationally accredited vocational program for caring for orphans.
They were recognised in a ceremony (...)
Elections in Algeria might well preserve a president who has been in power for 15 years. But his string of victories will likely be challenged by a fraught political environment and a rising opposition movement.
Polls in the North African country (...)
Following a recent decree by a Saudi royal court making Muqrin bin Abdulaziz a crown prince, the kingdom now boasts two crown princes awaiting their turn on the throne.
Muqrin is now the second heir to Saudi monarch King Abdullah, after Crown Prince (...)
Prince Muqrin Bin Abdulaziz was named second in line to the Saudi throne Thursday, in a decree that establishes unalterably the immediate succession order.
The Saudi Royal Court issued a decree appointing the 68-year-old ex-intelligence chief as (...)
Issandr El-Amrani of the International Crisis Group tells students and academics at the American University in Cairo that resource issues are at the heart of spreading polarisation in Arab uprising states
Pundits studying the Middle East often cite (...)
At around midnight on Thursday, Majed Abusalama is trying to post news about Gaza to social media sites. Israeli warplanes hovering in the sky above him and intermittent power cuts make his endeavour almost impossible.
“As I am writing to you, I can (...)
A document recently drafted by women's rights groups, regional governments and the UN aims to deliver sustainable development and gender empowerment, according toUN Women Deputy Executive Director Lakshmi Puri during a trip to Cairo.
The Arab League (...)
Peace talks aimed at bringing together warring factions from South Sudan resumed on Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, despite a number of Arab and African civil groups calling for a seat at the negotiating table.
A statement released (...)
A series of solidarity protests and rallies were held Saturday aimed at ending a siege on a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria.
Protesters in the occupied Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria, Canada, Germany and France gathered under (...)
On New Year's Eve, the families of 26 Palestinian prisoners who have been held in Israeli prisons for decades gathered outside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's headquarters in Ramallah in order to receive their newly-released relatives.
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The Libyan army has started roaming the streets of Tripoli in place of armed militias for the first time since 2011. Many Libyans in the capital are thrilled by the move after being fed up with the arms-wielding fighters taking charge of their (...)
Despite their regional prominence, Gulf states must reformulate their positions in line with recent strategic changes in the Middle East, experts suggested at a roundtable entitled "The future of the Arab Gulf in light of current developments."
"The (...)
After an outwardly ramshackle national dialogue was held at abeyance 4 November, Tunisian leaders deliberate on how to move ahead with hard-won talks.
More than a week ago, the powerful General Union of Tunisian Labour (UGTT) mediating the talks (...)
It took little effort by Libyan coastguards to capsize a boat of over 400 Syrians and Syrian-Palestinian asylum seekers, plunging the three-decked vessel 80-metres below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea. On 11 October, over 200 Syrians - (...)
Supporters of Rasmea Yousef Odeh, a Palestinian-American community leader in Chicago, have called on the US Department of Homeland Security to drop all charges, following her arrest on 22 October.
Odeh allegedly lied on her immigration form to the (...)
A leaked document from Bahrain's interior ministry detailing a request for a tear gas and grenade shipment has set off an online Bahraini campaign calling for the shipment's halt.
"Stop the Shipment" was launched on 17 October by a bevy of activists (...)
Twenty years ago today, the Oslo Accords took the world by surprise. Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sealed the historical agreement with a handshake that was broadcast to the (...)
In the weeks following the 30 June protests in Egypt, spearheaded by the Tamarod (Rebel) campaign, distinct yet fundamentally similar namesake campaigns sprang up in the Arab world. The Rebel campaign, turned grassroots movement, led to the removal (...)
Prominent Bahraini activist, Maryam Al-Khwaja, was prevented from boarding a British Airways flight from Copenhagen Friday, according to IBTimes UK.
Airport personnel later told Al-Khwaja that her named flashed in a message from the Bahraini (...)
Bahrain's opposition has had a trying two years as it vies for a spot amongst the Arab Spring uprisings. Freedom of speech repression, torture, and denied entry are just some of their grievances. Indeed, since the struggle for democratic reform (...)
Palestinians who fly into Cairo International Airport to return to the Gaza Strip via the Rafah land crossing are being sent back to the countries they flew into Egypt from without prior notification, the Palestinian website Electronic Intifada (...)
Ahram Online (AO): The government seems to have made some concessions regarding scrapping mall building plans [in Gezi Park in Istanbul]. Erdogan said that he was open to "democratic demands." Has any sort of dialogue been put into place so far? (...)
With the Syrian uprising quickly fracturing into more camps and divisions, sectarian tensions are widening as a result.
Has Syria now plunged into open civil war?
What began as a peaceful uprising awaiting the same fate of many Arab Spring (...)