Almost one million people face severe hunger in northern Mozambique, where hundreds of thousands have fled Islamist militant attacks, the United Nations food agency said on Tuesday.
Islamic State-linked insurgents last month attacked Palma, a town (...)
Celebrating the birthday of the late Saad Kamel (1924-2012), the prominent folklore-oriented graphic artist and founder of Mashrabia Gallery of Fine Arts, "Folklore Tales" showcases a rare collection of his works.
"Folklore Tales" takes the viewer (...)
The United Nations human rights office said on Friday it was unclear whether Jordan's Prince Hamza remains under de facto house arrest and voiced concern at what it called a lack of transparency surrounding at least 16 detentions.
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The World Health Organization expects there will be no reason to change its assessment that the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 outweigh any risks, its regulatory director said on Tuesday.
The WHO is closely studying the latest (...)
The Ethiopian government announced last week that Eritrean forces had begun to withdraw from the Tigray region. Only a few weeks earlier, Addis Ababa admitted that Eritrean forces were involved in the civil war that has been raging in Ethiopia's (...)
The reported findings match what WHO officials have said in the past about their conclusions following a Jan-Feb visit to China.
Many questions remain unanswered, and the team proposed further research in every area except the lab leak hypothesis, (...)
Egypt's permanent mission to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva has successfully pushed the adoption of a resolution at the UN's Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the negative impact of unrecovered looted funds on human rights.
The resolution's (...)
Comprehensive Operation Sinai 2018 (COS 2018), launched on 9 February that year, marked a turning point in the war against terrorism. Two weeks later, on 25 February, the government launched another comprehensive project — Edict 107/2018 — (...)
Egypt has welcomed the initiative announced by Saudi Arabia to end the crisis in Yemen, which also aims to reach a comprehensive political solution in the country.
This includes a number of steps, such as a comprehensive ceasefire, and the opening (...)
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a unique experience, having stormed the world in a specific moment, causing the numbers of causalities to soar, and creating an economic and scientific panic in many countries.
The next few lines will (...)
Libya's national unity government composed of 35 ministers led by Prime Minister Abdel-Hamid Dbeibah officially took up the reins on Tuesday from the previous Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez Al-Sarraj.
The move came one day after (...)
Just as expected, the Geneva talks on a new Syrian constitution collapsed in late January. Since then, hopes for a breakthrough in the Syrian crisis have receded into the far distance. As the tragedy enters its 12th year, however, foreign (...)
Germany, France and Italy said on Monday they would hit pause on AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots after several countries reported possible serious side-effects, throwing Europe's already struggling vaccination campaign into disarray.
Denmark and Norway (...)
The Egyptian House of Representatives' Human Rights Committee announced its "denunciation and utter rejection of the accusations and allegations mentioned in the joint statement by several United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) member states on (...)
Myanmar security forces killed at least 12 people, witnesses and media reported, as the acting leader of a civilian parallel government vowed in a first public address on Saturday to pursue a "revolution" to overturn the Feb. 1 military coup.
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A World Health Organization expert advisory committee is currently looking at AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine after some countries paused distribution of it, but there is no reason not to use it, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
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The Egyptian foreign ministry said on Friday that it completely rejects the statement that was issued earlier by several Western countries at the UN Human rights council in Geneva.
"The foreign ministry completely rejected what the statement (...)
Britain urged its citizens to leave Myanmar on Friday as security forces cracked down on more protests against the junta, forcing patients out of a hospital in the west of the country and arresting a Polish journalist.
After 12 people were killed on (...)
Several Western countries expressed their concern about the trajectory of human rights in Egypt in a Friday joint statement at the UN Human Rights Council. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry expressed "great surprise and disapproval" in reaction to the (...)
The human rights committee of the Egyptian House of Representatives, headed by Tarek Radwan, condemned, on Friday, the joint statement by 31 countries over human rights situation in Egypt.
The United States, which has observer status at the UN Human (...)
The United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar said on Thursday the military junta had "murdered" at least 70 people since its Feb. 1 coup, perpetrating killings, torture and persecution that may constitute crimes against humanity.
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As Al-Ahram Weekly went to press this week, it was still uncertain whether the National Unity Government proposed by Libyan Prime Minister-designate Abdul- Hamid Dbeiba would win a vote of confidence in Libya's House of Representatives (HoR), which (...)
In the wake of repeated failures to achieve a solution to the Syrian crisis, some Syrian observers are now talking about the imminent formation of a joint military council composed of dissident opposition officers and officers who still serve the (...)
Scores of Libyan parliament members from both sides of the divided country arrived in the frontline city of Sirte on Sunday for a session this week to debate a proposed unity government.
The parliament has been split - as have most state (...)
Libya's designated prime minister Abdelhamid Dbeibeh has proposed a large unity cabinet with 35 members, his office said on Friday, ahead of a planned parliament meeting on Monday to debate ratifying his government.
The Cabinet list has been subject (...)
