Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online “Countries across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are witnessing a divergence in vaccine deployment and a number of these countries will not be able to roll-out vaccines before 2023”, said Jihad Azour the Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department …
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Ahram Online UN’s acting envoy to Libya Stephanie Williams said on Monday; “Libya’s rival sides wrapped up a week of UN-brokered talks without agreeing on a transitional government to lead the country to an election in December next year”. The forum, which concluded late on Sunday, aimed at drawing a roadmap …
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Egypt and MENA countries should join the UN Convention on International Settlement Agreements resulting from Mediation that comes into force later this year. Salma el-Nashar Over the last few months, and especially due to the exceptional emergency circumstances, the world has been going through the pandemic COVID-19. The number of …
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Egypt Today The European Union has provided 89 Million Euros to the Egyptian health sector to help authorities manage the coronavirus crisis, said EU Ambassador to Egypt Ivan Surkos. Egypt is involved in a fierce battle against the novel coronavirus. It has so far confirmed 8,000 cases, according to an …
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Already wracked by conflict, the Arab world needs a financial rescue plan if it is to survive the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. Hussein Haridy The world is in the midst of a serious fight against a virus that has wreaked havoc on the world economy with grave political and …
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Ferid Belhaj In the Middle East and North Africa, the World Bank is focused on one overarching goal: to end poverty, in all of its forms, wherever it is found. Increasingly, poverty is concentrated in areas suffering from fragility, conflict and violence also known as FCV. New World Bank …
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Even in the midst of protracted conflicts, it is possible to make progress towards peace, development and human rights by following certain guiding principles. Andrew Whitley The late UN secretary-general Kofi Annan had a maxim that he often used. He would say that “one cannot have real peace without development; …
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Tunisia and Algeria both found themselves without a president, but the political composition of the two countries has had a significant impact on the trajectory each is on. Ziad Akl North Africa has been witnessing a phase of political tension, particularly in Tunisia and Algeria — two of the most …
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Dynamics between the main jihadist terrorist groups in North Africa have increasingly less to do with local developments and more to do with their rivalry. Eman Ragab* North Africa has been an arena for rivalry between the Islamic State group (IS) and its affiliates and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb …
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The trafficking of goods and people in the Sahara-Sahel region has become much more problematic in recent years, feeding the development of transnational armed groups and violence Lubna Allam Many smugglers think of themselves as transporters, not criminals. For, they argue, isn’t the smuggling of petrol, cigarettes and other goods …
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