Political pacts shield absent Iraqi MPs from fines

2025-10-04T10:35:22+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Rules meant to punish absent Iraqi lawmakers are largely ignored, as political deals shield MPs from salary cuts and potential expulsion, the Parliamentary Legal...

Doha Institute, SAEA host food security forum on Sudan

Doha: The School of Economics, Administration, and Public Policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, in collaboration with the Sudanese Agricultural Engineers Association (SAEA) in Qatar, held Saturday a forum on the effective partnership...

Iranian political activist held in Texas faces risk of deportation, lawyer says

Masoud Peyma, who has represented Qaneifard since 2017, said his client was arrested on March 28 after reporting to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Dallas to register a new address. Qaneifard had recently moved from...

Ambientalistas, políticos y celebridades recuerdan la vida e influencia de Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall fue una pionera, una defensora incansable y una conservacionista profundamente compasiva que inspiró a otros a preocuparse por los primates —y todos los animales— durante una larga vida bien vivida, según los homenajes de todo el...

Sudan faces rebuilding challenges as citizens return to Khartoum

Khartoum begins reconstruction amid a deadly conflict as SAF retake control, but devastation, famine, and insecurity challenge Sudan’s recovery. After two years under rebel control, Khartoum has turned into a wasteland, with important...

Meet the mothers fighting malnutrition in Sudan

Since April 2023, conflict in Sudan has torn apart lives and livelihoods—devastating agriculture, disrupting trade, and forcing over 12 million people from their homes. As fighting continues, food prices have soared beyond reach, making it even...

Civilians Under Siege in Sudan’s El Fasher Town, Catholic Entities among Over 100 Calling for Their Protection

The letter calls for decisive intervention by the international community in light of evidence published by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab that the RSF has built walls at the edges of the city to control the movement of persons, and that an...

Sudanese Alliance seeks probe into deadly Darfur drone strike

SCREENGRAB The United Civil Forces Alliance (Qimam) has accused Sudan’s army and its Islamist allies of committing war crimes following a drone strike on Al-Zurq market in North Darfur. The group demanded urgent investigations and accountability...

Syrian Finance Minister Controls Tax Rates with Presidential Approval

In recent days, Bernieh has intensified meetings, workshops, and consultations with industrialists, merchants, and their representative bodies such as the boards of chambers of commerce and industry across Syrian provinces, at the Finance Ministry...

Research shows Sudan Ebola's lasting impact and potential for mother-to-child transmission

More than half of survivors of the Sudan Ebola virus still suffer serious health problems two years post-infection and the virus can persist in semen and breast milk for months after recovery, according to the first study examining the virus's...

UN Experts Demand Urgent Action To Protect Civilians In Sudan As Conflict Intensifies

OHCHR GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed grave concern at reports of indiscriminate killings, mass displacement, sexual violence, enforced disappearance and obstruction of humanitarian assistance in Sudan, warning that the scale and severity of...

Freed researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov breaks silence

2025-10-03T15:36:49+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Middle East Elizabeth Tsurkov, the Israeli-Russian researcher freed in Iraq last month, published her first posts on X on Friday, thanking those who helped secure her release...

Kabila’s Death Sentence: Justice Served or Political Vendetta?

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has once again offered the world a spectacle where the thin line between justice and politics is blurred. On Friday, a military court sentenced former president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia for war...

Against History: Art, Culture, and Business-as-Usual under the Gazan Genocide

The Israeli mass killing in Gaza has been unrelenting. More than 70,000 tons of bombs dropped. At the time of writing, the death count is 46,584; an underestimate given that in June 2024 it was estimated that 200,000 Palestinians had been murdered...

Sudan Gurung vows plan to distinguish ‘Hami Nepal’ from Gen-Z

KATHMANDU, Oct 3: Sudan Gurung, founder of Hami Nepal, has declared that the initiative will now be set apart from the Gen-Z movement. In a Facebook video statement on Thursday, Gurung said steps are being taken to clearly separate the two...

How growth markets are redefining the global economy

For decades, development has been measured almost exclusively through gross domestic product and other macroeconomic indicators. Using these metrics, the world economy delivered rising growth rates, expanding infrastructure and global integration....

Humanitarian crisis deepens as Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam triggers deadly floods in Sudan

Sudan faces catastrophic floods after Ethiopia released water from the Grand Renaissance Dam, submerging homes, farmland, and displacing thousands In Silanih, north of Omdurman, farmers lost entire winter crops, with saturated land expected to...

Community aid in Sudan wins world recognition

Volunteers at El-Geraif Emergency Response Room (Ayin) SUDAN – Sudan’s grassroots “Emergency Rooms” have been honored with their second major international prize in just two weeks, underscoring global recognition of the volunteers who have kept...

AU Paralysis Fuelling Sudan's Humanitarian Catastrophe

Kim Heller|Published 2 hours ago 5min Kim Heller 'All Eyes on Gaza' has become a vociferous rallying call, as it should, for Gaza is a site of horrific inhumanity. At the same time, more eyes are needed on Sudan. The conflict-ravaged nation is a...

Why GDP should not be the only measure for economic prosperity

For decades, development has been measured almost exclusively through gross domestic product and other macroeconomic indicators. Using these metrics, the world economy delivered rising growth rates, expanding infrastructure and global integration....