At least eight people have been killed in protests that have swept across Sudan for a second consecutive day amid rising public anger over soaring prices and other economic woes. Authorities on Thursday declared a state of emergency in the eastern city of Gadarif, where six protesters died during clashes[…]
Long-delayed elections due to be held in DR Congo on Sunday will be postponed by a week after voting machines were destroyed in a warehouse fire, the country’s electoral board said on Thursday. “The presidential, legislative and provincial elections will therefore take place on December 30, 2018,” the head of[…]
A Russian “disinformation campaign” against the White Helmets has been exposed by renown citizen journalist investigations website Bellingcat. An investigation by the group, which publishes reports on war zones and the criminal underworld, found that Russian and Syrian governments and state-controlled media pushed a narrative about the search-and-rescue organisation to[…]
President Donald Trump has announced the withdrawal of all 2,000 US troops from Syria as he abruptly declared victory over ISIL in the country in a move that contradicted his own experts’ assessments and sparked surprise and anger among senior fellow Republicans who railed against it. “We have defeated ISIS[…]
Twitter is a toxic place for women, according to Amnesty International’s Troll Patrol report. Amnesty International used crowd-sourcing, data science and machine learning to measure the level of violence and abuse aimed at women on Twitter between 2017 and 2018. Millions of tweets received by 778 female journalists, activists, parliamentarians, bloggers and[…]
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday that Islamic State militants had executed nearly 700 prisoners in nearly two months in eastern Syria. The UK-based war monitoring group said the prisoners were among 1,350 civilians and fighters that Islamic State had been holding in territory near the Iraqi[…]
Jamal Karameh’s teeth fell out after members of Palestinian Authority forces attacked him with batons in the southern city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on 14 December. Karameh, a 50-year-old, was participating in a peaceful march against Israeli increase of military operations in the West Bank towns last[…]
Russia, Iran and Turkey, supporters of the main sides in Syria’s complex civil war, on Tuesday failed to agree on the makeup of a United Nations-sponsored Syrian constitutional committee but called for it to convene early next year to kick off a viable peace process. In a joint statement read[…]
After a week of drive-by shootings and stabbings, the killing of Palestinians by Israeli forces, and military raids, arrests and demolitions, uncertainty lingers over the political and security implications for the occupied West Bank. While Israel has blamed the disparate attacks on Hamas, analysts tell Middle East Eye that the[…]
A woman who was unable to renew her contract with a public school district in Texas because she boycotts Israel is suing the US state over its anti-boycott law, which she says violates her right to free speech. Bahia Amawi, a children’s speech specialist, refused to sign a required document[…]
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