Middle East & Africa

President of The AfDB Receives 8th African Leadership Magazine African of The Year Award

Over 200 leading African political, business, and diplomatic leaders gathered in Johannesburg for the 8th African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year Award dinner. They witnessed...

UN urge warring Libyan factions to negotiate

The UN’s Libya mission and world powers on Tuesday urged the country’s warring parties to engage in peace efforts, as doubts hung over talks set...

Russia-Africa Relations: Highlights of Valentina Matviyenko’s Trip to Namibia and Zambia

On February 18 - 20, Chairperson of the Federation Council (the Upper House or the Senate), Valentina Matviyenko, headed a Russian delegation on a three-day working...

Africa has both the energy and the determination to make sustainable development happen

The United Nations and the African Union (AU) should do more to ensure all Africans see their futures in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)and the goals...

Zimbabwe’s Unprecedented Misfortune: The Perils of Climate Change

Remarkably, the El Nino effect is ghosting human lives back again; Zimbabwe’s food insecurity is reaching dangerous levels whilst ground policies are taking strange turns. Time...

Situation in central Mali ‘deteriorating’ as violence, impunity rise

The growing violence has contributed to a deteriorating security situation in central Mali, with impunity being one of the aggravating factors, an independent UN human rights...

Escalating Burkina Faso violence brings wider Sahel displacement emergency into focus

Deadly attacks on villages in Burkina Faso have forced 150,000 people to flee in just the last three weeks, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said...

Iran regime’s Parliamentary elections and challenges facing it

Forty-one years have passed since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now the regime is entrenched in crises and facing a deadlock. On the...

Violence in North and West Africa increasingly targeting civilian and border areas

Violence in North and West Africa is increasingly targeting civilian and border regions as today’s conflicts involve non-state actors with diverging agendas, according to a new report...

Growing Political Instability in Middle East: A Case Study of Yemen

Yemen’s full-blown war was the consequence of a series of events that succeeded one after the other. Violence escalated during the second half of 2014, when...

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