Essay: Growing pains for Arab evangelical Christians in the Middle East
DAOUD KUTTAB, in an article published on Religion News Service, looks at what a recent meeting of evangelical leaders in the Middle East revealed…
No fuel, no hope: Sri Lankans flee crisis in mass brain drain
DIMUTHU ATTANAYAKE, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the cost of living crisis is fuelling the exodus of Sri Lankan professionals…
People facing acute food insecurity reach 345 million worldwide – WFP
Baghdad, Iraq Reuters The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change, the World Food Programme said on Wednesday. Before the coronavirus crisis, 135 million suffered from acute hunger worldwide, said Corinne Fleischer, the WFP’s regional director, […]
Biden ends trip with US-Saudi relations on the mend but few other wins
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Reuters President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took a step to mending their troubled relationship with a fist bump, but the US leader left the kingdom on Saturday with few big successes and doubts as to whether the visit was worth it. Biden’s four-day trip to Israel and […]
Biden savours Israel “homecoming” as high-wire Saudi leg looms
Jerusalem, IsraelReuters Israel embraced US President Joe Biden as an old friend on Wednesday at the start of a high-stakes visit dominated by efforts to bring Israel closer to Saudi Arabia and persuade Washington’s Gulf allies to pump more oil. Landing at Ben Gurion Airport, whose runway he first trod in 1973 as a senator, […]
Europe’s south expects over 150,000 migrant arrivals this year – minister
Milan, ItalyReuters Mediterranean countries on major migrant routes into Europe expect over 150,000 arrivals this year as food shortages caused by the Ukraine conflict threaten a new migration wave from Africa and the Middle East. “This year the frontline member states are expected, as we have discussed between us, to receive more than 150,000 migrants,” […]
Ukraine war raising malnutrition risk in Middle East – UNICEF
Beirut, LebanonAP Rising food prices as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are increasing the risk of malnutrition of millions of children in the Middle East and North Africa, the UN children’s agency warned Thursday. UNICEF added that families are struggling to put food on the table during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when observant Muslims […]
Food security: Ukraine war threatens supplies in fragile Arab world
ZEINA KARAM, of Associated Press, reports on the Middle Eastern food crisis which is rippling out of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
Ukraine war threatens to make bread a luxury in the Middle East
Aden, Yemen/Cairo, EgyptThomson Reuters Foundation The war in Ukraine may be unfolding several thousand miles away, but 32-year-old Ilham fears her family will feel its consequences on their dinner table in Yemen. Conflict between Ukraine and Russia, which provide more than a quarter of the world’s wheat exports, has sent global prices to a 13-year high – causing […]
Migration crisis: Shadow payment system on rise among European people smugglers
LAYLI FOROUDI, of Reuters, reports on the growing use of informal financial networks by people smugglers as far north as the UK…