Fighting in Khartoum as mediators seek end to Sudan conflict
Khartoum, Sudan Reuters Fighting could be heard in south Khartoum on Sunday as envoys from Sudan’s warring parties were in Saudi Arabia for talks that international mediators hope will bring an end to a three-week-old conflict that has killed hundreds and triggered an exodus. The US-Saudi initiative is the first serious attempt to end fighting […]
More than 2,000 Afghan evacuees in detention in UAE – Human Rights Watch
Washington DC, US Reuters Human Rights Watch on Wednesday accused Emirati authorities of arbitrarily detaining for more than 15 months as many as 2,700 Afghan evacuees who have no legal pathways to refugee status or resettlement elsewhere. Many of those housed in Emirates Humanitarian City are suffering from depression and other psychological ailments, have no […]
Syria’s Assad meets senior Arab lawmakers in Damascus
Damascus, Syria Reuters A delegation of senior Arab parliamentarians met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Sunday, another sign of thawing ties after more than a decade of isolation over the conflict in Syria. The heads of the Iraqi, Jordanian, Palestinian, Libyan, Egyptian and Emirati houses of representatives, as well as representatives from […]
Essay: Abrahamic Family House “changes all the rules” of interfaith understanding
In an article first published on Religion News Service, KNOX THAMES says the mosque, church and synagogue complex is a shining monument to tolerance…
At COP27, climate change framed as battle for survival
Sharm El-Sheikh, EgyptReuters World leaders and diplomats framed the fight against global warming as a battle for human survival during opening speeches at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt on Monday, with the head of the United Nations declaring a lack of progress so far had the world speeding down a “highway to hell”. The […]
Christian monastery possibly pre-dating Islam found in UAE
Siniyah Island, United Arab Emirates AP An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the years before Islam spread across the Arabian Peninsula has been discovered on an island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, officials announced Thursday. The monastery on Siniyah Island, part of the sand-dune sheikhdom of Umm al-Quwain, […]
Afghans in UAE facility are “psychologically suffering”, Canada refugee says
Toronto, CanadaReuters Afghans living in a makeshift refugee camp in the United Arab Emirates staged demonstrations this week protesting the uncertainty of their status, participants told Reuters, and one refugee now in Canada said they are “psychologically suffering.” Residents in the camp, called Emirates Humanitarian City, have been housed there awaiting transfer to another country […]
Canada agrees to resettle Afghans held in UAE facility, sources say
Dubai, United Arab Emirates/Washington DC, USReuters Canada will accept some 1,000 Afghans who fled the Taliban takeover of their homeland and have been held for months in a makeshift refugee centre in the United Arab Emirates awaiting resettlement to the United States and elsewhere, seven sources said. Ottawa has agreed to a US request to […]
US calls for help to rehome Afghans who fled chaos of Taliban takeover
Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesReuters The United States still needs other nations to take Afghans who fled their homeland last year, a senior US State Department official said on Friday, six months after Washington’s chaotic withdrawal as the hard-line Islamist Taliban took control. Washington has been urging its partners to take Afghans who do not […]
Essay: The UAE is restoring Christian life in the Persian Gulf
KNOX THAMES, a former special envoy for religious minorities at the US Department of State, says the tiny gulf nation is supporting religious and cultural restoration to spread tolerance in the Middle East…