Turkey will release more water flows from the Tigris River to its southern neighbor, Iraq, as a sign of a breakthrough in the water stress crisis that has been facing Iraq since 2015 due to the impacts of climate change and the ongoing building of da...

More than 60 international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have called on the UN Human Rights Council to reject any resolution by the government of Ethiopia to end the mandate of the International C...

Prominent Egyptian opposition journalist Khaled El-Balshy, whose website has been blocked by the Egyptian authorities since March 2020, was elected to be the new head of the Journalists Syndicate, and he has promised to open the file of imprisoned jo...

The majority of Christian countries in recent years, particularly those in Europe, have had concerns with women covering their heads and faces, which is now perceived as a type of radicalized Islam.BackgroundSome reports by Amnesty International and...

Food prices in Egypt are soaring as a result of the country’s weak economy and shortage of hard currency, leading many people in the low and middle-income classes to turn away from animal-based food, prices of which have doubled in just one year, and...

After 33 years of absence, doctors in Sudan have been able to complete the founding phase of restoring their democratic union, after the Doctors Syndicate had been dissolved along with other unions following the military coup led by former President...

Sectarian violence looms between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq over the renaming of a Sunni mosque by the administration of the Shiite Al-Askari Holy Shrine in the city of Samarra in Saladin governorate, which has a Sunni majority.The Iraqi As...

As influential individuals in societies throughout history, women are celebrated every year on March 8. Women from all over the world are honored yearly for their victories, their strength, their empowerment, their existence and simply being themselv...

In continuation of the crackdown on civil society, the Algerian authorities have suspended and dissolved two human rights associations for their participation in the 2019 protests that led to the overthrow of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ove...

The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) will be held, in Doha, Qatar, from March 5-9, under the theme “From Potential to Prosperity”.The LDC comes once every ten years “to accelerate sustainable development in the...

It is quite clear that Syria is no longer isolated by its Arab neighbors after 12 years of civil war between Syrians and the international proxy war. However, the return of Syria under the leadership of President Bashar Al-Assad is contingent upon th...

The heads of state and government of the African Union gathered in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on February 18-19 as part of the work of the 36th ordinary session.The session came under the slogan “Acceleration of the African Continental Free...