Human rights organizations claim that Sikhala and other opposition activists are the focus of Zimbabwean authorities that “weaponize the law.” Zimbabwe’s Harare – The previous 17 months that Job “Wiwa” Sikhala has been detained in pre-trial custody at Zimbabwe’s Chikurubi maximum-security prison represent the longest period of time an opposition politician has been detained in…
Families in Gaza struggle to locate water and food for their children while Israeli airstrikes land on the area. Amal al-Robayaa sets out every morning at 8 a.m. to find food from the United Nations school, where she has sought safety with her extended family since the start of the Gaza War. “I always consider…
The 2,000 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip have terrible health conditions as they receive no appropriate care or therapy. Gaza Region: Saida Barbakh sits in her wheelchair and surveys the packed classroom of the United Nations-run school she currently resides in in Khan Younis. She lets out a long sigh. The prescription for the…
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calls the move the ‘right humanitarian solution’. Critics call it ‘ethnic cleansing’. The “right humanitarian solution” for the beleaguered enclave and the region is the “voluntary migration” of Palestinians in Gaza, according to Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. Palestinian authorities compared this to advocating “ethnic cleansing.” Smotrich’s remarks follow…
Al Jazeera has discovered that Malta has distributed a fresh draft resolution that centers on the children of Gaza. Will there be a US veto? As death and despair descend on Gaza, tense and challenging deliberations in the UN Security Council continue in an attempt to break the impasse that is crippling the world’s most…
Chinese companies are allegedly providing Russia with weaponry for the conflict in Ukraine, according to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged Beijing to take tough measures against Chinese companies supporting Russia’s conflict in Ukraine, while also highlighting the need of “healthy economic relations” between the US and China. Yellen…
Afghanistan confirms a spot in the Champions Trophy, while South Africa secures second place and a quarterfinal matchup with Australia. In their last Cricket World Cup group match, South Africa overcame a valiant comeback from Afghanistan to win by five wickets with fifteen balls remaining and secure second place in the rankings. With nine games…
Due to his placement on a watch list, Moataz Matar will not be allowed to go back to the United Kingdom. A British official reportedly cancelled the visa of an exiled Egyptian television personality because of his purported sympathy for Hamas, a Palestinian armed organization that the government views as a “terrorist” organization. According to…
Sanjay Singh was arrested last month by the ED after questioning in connection with the money laundering probe into the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy case.A Delhi court on Friday extended the judicial custody of Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh till November 24 in the excise policy case, ANI reported. Singh was arrested on October 4…
Israeli leader says ‘civilian government’ should rule enclave after Hamas is defeated. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country does not intend to “occupy” or govern Gaza after the end of its war with Hamas, but the enclave must be “demilitarised, deradicalised and rebuilt”. In an interview with Fox News aired on Thursday,…
