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In late April, the US envoy to the UN urged the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and others to stop interfering in Sudan’s war, warning that a "crisis of epic proportions is brewing." That comes as Washington has faced mounting pressure from senators, human rights groups, and the UN to address Sudan’s crisis, which is causing a dire humanitarian catastrophe. With over a year since the Rapid Special Forces (RSF) split from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), the violence has killed over 15,000 and internally displaced over 6.7 million, while forcing 1.8 million to flee to neighbouring countries. However...
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Israeli forces are currently carrying out limited ground assaults and waging an aerial bombardment against Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians, half of whom are children, are sheltering. Despite the Biden administration warning Israeli officials against conducting a full-scale ground offensive, it seems that Israel will probably go ahead with one. Such a massive Israeli military operation in southern Gaza is set to be a major turning point in this war. On 11 May, Israel’s military sent out an “urgent warning” that Palestinians in parts of Rafah must evacuate. “Everyone in these are...
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In the past week, Israel began a long-threatened invasion of Rafah despite warnings from the US and major allies. Israeli forces seized control of the Rafah Crossing, previously controlled by Egypt, and are threatening a full ground invasion even though at least a million Palestinians are sheltering in Rafah. The inescapable choice to prioritise domestic security, humanitarian assistance or diplomatic relationships is an agonising one which Egypt’s leadership must make. “The Israeli ground invasion of Rafah is a breaking point where Egypt can and maybe has to change its historical non-interven...
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Last month, China hosted closed-door meetings in Beijing between representatives of the Palestinian political parties Fatah and Hamas to push towards intra-Palestinian reconciliation and a united Palestinian leadership. While details of the meetings have been kept under wraps, leaks indicate that Azzam al-Ahmad headed Fatah's delegation and Mousa Abu Marzook the Hamas delegation. "Based on an invitation from China, Representatives of the Palestine National Liberation Movement (Fatah) and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) recently came to Beijing to hold in-depth and candid talks on promo...
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In a recent interview, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan dismissed the idea of the Biden administration moving ahead with a defence agreement with Saudi Arabia without Riyadh normalising diplomatic relations with Israel. “The integrated vision is a bilateral understanding between the US and Saudi Arabia combined with normalisation between Israel and Saudi Arabia, combined with meaningful steps on behalf of the Palestinian people,” asserted Sullivan. “All of that has to come together...you can’t disentangle one piece from the others.” Sullivan’s remarks seem to lay to rest the idea of ...
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As New York police prepared to storm a Columbia University building last month, the Biden administration condemned the student protesters holed up inside. “Forcibly taking over buildings is not peaceful - it is wrong,” the White House said in a statement that accused students of “hate speech” for using an Arabic term that means revolution. “Hate speech and hate symbols have no place in America.” The comment, which came after two weeks of increasing tensions between students and the school, put Joe Biden firmly on the side of the ensuing crackdown, in which 48 students were arrested and at leas...
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Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is cracking down on protestors showing solidarity with Palestine at a time when he is courting the international community for multi-billion funds and attempting to position himself as a peace broker in the Gaza-Israel crisis. The arrests expose a contradiction between Sisi’s domestic messaging of support for Gaza versus his objectives on the international stage of keeping Israel as an ally to maintain control of the border and play mediator. They also illustrate that, even after a decade of unrivalled power, his regime is too fragile to allow any meaning...
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) is considering issuing arrest warrants for senior Israeli political and military officials, according to Israeli media reports, including top government figures such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Galant, and Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi. The charges are anticipated to be related to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, namely Israel’s “excessively harsh” military assault on the Palestinian population and its impediments to the delivery of aid to Gaza, which has led to starvation and the onset of famine. The court is also bel...
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With Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 past the halfway mark, the ambitious plan to redefine the nation and move away from its traditional oil dependency faces financial obstacles, prompting a scaling back of its most audacious projects. Echoing these challenges, Finance Minister Mohammed Al Jadaan remarked at the World Economic Forum on 28 April that the kingdom would adapt to current economic and geopolitical pressures by either "downscaling" or "accelerating" certain projects under the Vision 2030 programme. That followed comments by Al Jadaan in December 2023 that some projects would be delayed. ...
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Turkey and Iraq signed more than 20 agreements during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's first visit to the neighbouring country in more than a decade. In statements after the visit, attention focused on the ambitious Development Road project, a highway and railway corridor stretching 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) from the Persian Gulf city of Basra to the Turkish port of Mersin. Dubbed the 'new Silk Road', this $17 billion project is poised to rival both China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor – neither of which traverses through Iraq. By subst...
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