World Cup security guards still jailed in Qatar after dispute over unpaid wages
Workers at World Cup 2022 venues fired as tournament ended and allegedly jailed or deported after trying to claim unpaid wages Three World Cup security...
Category : Middle East and North Africa
Families ask human rights court to free jailed Tunisian opposition leaders
Daughters of Rached Ghannouchi and Said Ferjani demand justice amid continuing crackdown on dissent by President Saied Families of detained Tunisian opposition politicians filed a...
UK funding cuts to east Africa ‘insulting and shortsighted’, say aid organisations
NGOs dismayed at reduction in Britain’s contribution as crisis-hit region faces challenges from drought, rising prices and conflict The UK has been accused of taking...
Race against time to stop ‘humanitarian disaster’ among Sudan refugees in Chad
Coming rainy season threatens 80,000 living in ‘heartbreaking’ conditions in vulnerable border region after fleeing war at home Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees, many...
Ex-Mubarak minister Mohamed Mansour donates £5m to Tories
Tory senior treasurer Mansour says he wants to assist ‘very capable prime minister’ Rishi Sunak UK politics live – latest updates The Conservatives have accepted...
Sudan weeklong ceasefire to take effect to allow delivery of humanitarian aid
Deal to stop fighting comes as journalists’ syndicate accuses paramilitary group of targeting reporters A weeklong ceasefire in Sudan intended to allow the delivery of...
Sudan’s warring factions sign agreement for seven-day ceasefire
US and Saudi Arabia announce deal that comes after six weeks of fighting between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces Sudan’s warring factions signed...
‘No one saw this level of devastation coming’: climate crisis worsens in Somalia
Torrential rain, coming on top of the country’s worst drought in four decades, has forced 250,000 people to leave their homes Jamal Ali Abdi has...
‘On every corner someone disappears’: the frantic search for Sudan’s missing
Since fighting erupted last month, dozens of people have vanished, but communities are organising to find and bring them home Kamal Ali Osman sent a...
‘The city was underwater’: quarter of a million Somalis flee flooded homes
Climate crisis a key factor in flash flooding of Beledweyne as rains end drought and Shabelle River breaks its banks Floods have caused almost a...
