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Ethiopia faces series of challenges on international and domestic fronts
September 7, 2020
Ethiopia faces series of challenges on international and domestic fronts
Ethiopia’s government, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, has found itself in a quagmire of rising domestic and international tensions,…
Highways raise alarm in Cairo’s historic City of the Dead
August 1, 2020
Highways raise alarm in Cairo’s historic City of the Dead
CAIRO (AP) — For centuries, sultans and princes, saints and scholars, elites and commoners have been buried in two sprawling…
Emigrants send dollars home to Mexico – and virus warnings
July 23, 2020
Emigrants send dollars home to Mexico – and virus warnings
NEW YORK (AP) — In the weeks he spent flat on his back in his Brooklyn bunk, wracked with pain…
Photos: Why Egypt’s Dahab is the perfect Red Sea resort town
July 19, 2020
Photos: Why Egypt’s Dahab is the perfect Red Sea resort town
Set in the shadow of Egypt’s Sinai mountains, Dahab is a destination so alluring that some have opted to make…
Award-winning Yemeni author has one hope: an end to the war
June 22, 2020
Award-winning Yemeni author has one hope: an end to the war
Bushra al-Maqtari has faced heady challenges on the front line of Yemen’s war and as a woman in a patriarchal…
Women’s rights in Islam: Fighting for equality before the law
May 23, 2020
Women’s rights in Islam: Fighting for equality before the law
In countries that practice Islamic law, legal reforms to advance the status of women tend to fail due to hard-liners…
Doctors and nurses suffered as Iran ignored virus concerns
May 12, 2020
Doctors and nurses suffered as Iran ignored virus concerns
CAIRO (AP) — They are regarded as heroes, their fallen colleagues as martyrs. But for doctors and nurses still dealing…
Life stands still in Egypt’s City of the Dead as coronavirus fear spreads
May 8, 2020
Life stands still in Egypt’s City of the Dead as coronavirus fear spreads
CAIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — It is a Friday morning in Egypt’s City of the Dead, the day of the…
Special Report: How Turkey’s courts turned on Erdogan’s foes
May 4, 2020
Special Report: How Turkey’s courts turned on Erdogan’s foes
ISTANBUL (Reuters) — It took 16 judges to convict Kurdish politicians Gultan Kisanak and Sebahat Tuncel of belonging to a…
Women who dare dissent targeted for abuse by Yemen’s rebels
April 29, 2020
Women who dare dissent targeted for abuse by Yemen’s rebels
CAIRO (AP) — Samera al-Huri’s fellow activists were disappearing, one by one. When she asked their families, each gave the…