MENA news
Venezuelan President brandishes sword amid rising US tensions
Nicolás Maduro intensified Venezuela’s confrontation with the United States as he appeared at a Caracas march holding a sword and urging supporters to prepare for foreign aggression, reported Sky News...
UN extends arms embargo ship inspections in Libya
Africanews via Associated Press reported on 27th November that the United Nations Security Council has voted to extend UN authorised states' ability to inspect ships which potentially violate the arms...
Syria: Alawites stage protest amid rising sectarian tensions
Several hundred people in Syria’s coastal city of Latakia gathered on November 25th to denounce a series of attacks targeting the Alawite community, marking one of the largest demonstrations in...
Algeria announces a wide array of reforms
Algeria has announced a number of ambitious reforms to improve living standards, enhance administrative systems and develop iron mining, according to Maghrebi Week on 24th November. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has...
Trump escalates feud with South Africa over G20 dispute
US President Donald Trump announced on November 26 that South Africa will not be invited to next year’s G20 summit, which is due to be hosted in Miami. The Associated...
Martin Jay: Western media see the writing on the wall in Ukraine
It’s hardly news these days that the western press are no longer serving both the U.S. and Ukrainian leader’s interests by lapping up the propaganda tomes that were previously dutifully...
Israel deepens apartheid with new laws, says legal centre
Adalah, a Palestinian-run legal centre, has accused the country of deepening apartheid through its enactment of over 30 laws since October 2023, according to the Middle East Eye via Adalah...
Parents of abducted children in Nigeria are left with no updates
In the small Nigerian community of Papiri, the worried and terrified parents of 300 children who were abducted from a local Catholic school say they have received no updates on...
Former MP on Britain’s past, present and future in Libya
Daniel Kawczynski is the only British MP to have been born in a communist country. It is this fact that first connected him to Libya, as first written in The...
Geopolitics
Graft
Ukraine: Zelensky faces crises amid corruption scandal
After being drawn into a multi-million corruption scandal, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy might now be facing a widening crises in his government, reports The Independent on...
Ukraine: Zelensky’s inner circle drawn into corruption scandal
A sweeping corruption investigation in Ukraine is exposing President Volodymyr Zelensky’s proximity to key figures implicated in the scandal, reported the The New York Times...
Libya: state-run fuel smuggling costs $20 billion
Between 2022 and 2024, an escalation in state-sanctioned fuel smuggling out of Libya has cost the North African nation roughly $20 billion, according to The...
Sudan paramilitary group receives fuel from pro-Haftar forces
Military forces serving under Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan commander, were reported to have been giving smuggled fuel to Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on...
Former French president Sarkozy released from jail
Former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, 70, has been sensationally released from jail pending his appeal next year, reports Reuters on 10th November. He will...
Politics
Algeria announces a wide array of reforms
Algeria has announced a number of ambitious reforms to improve living standards, enhance administrative systems and develop iron mining, according to Maghrebi Week on 24th...
Algeria to host conference on colonial crimes in Africa
An international conference revisiting colonial crimes in Africa will be hosted by Algeria this week, reports state-owned AL24 News on 26th November. The summit will...
Sudan’s military chief urges US to push for end to civil war
Sudan’s military chief, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, called on US President Donald Trump to put an end to Sudan’s civil war, according to The New Arab...
Hamas debates transitioning to a Palestinian political party
Several Hamas leaders inside and outside Gaza have suggested forming a political party aligned with a national Islamic political approach, which participates in political, economic,...
Niger sends 82 fuel tankers to Mali to ease ongoing fuel crisis
Niger sent a convoy of 82 fuel tankers to Bamako on 22nd November, with the intention of easing Mali’s ongoing fuel crisis, RFI reported on...
Cameroon: Opposition leader flees to Gambia
Cameroon's opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who is contesting Paul Biya's victory in the October presidential elections, has sought refuge in Gambia, according to the...
Tabloid
Algerian sex offender released by mistake is caught in London
An Algerian-born sex offender who was mistakenly released from Wandsworth Prison in South London has been caught by police after over a week on the...
Algerian man hailed as hero after saving lives in UK attack
On November 4th, Samir Zitouni, an Algerian railway worker, was hailed as a hero for stepping in to defend people during the mass stabbing train...
Dick Cheney, former US vice president, passes away at 84
The American politician, Dick Cheney, passed away at 84 years old and was known as the Vice President under US President George W Bush, leaving...
UK: Debate grows after Israeli fans banned from football match
The UK government has intervened after Birmingham authorities decided to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from attending their club’s Europa League match against Aston Villa,...
US ambassador to Israel featured in “Greater Israel” song
The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, was featured in a music video singing “Sweet Home Yerushalayim,” a pro-Israeli rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s "Sweet Home...
World
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