South Yemen Lands Committee Warns against Sales
SANA’A—The presidential committee assigned to return stolen lands in the South following Yemen’s civil war in 1994 on Wednesday warned against the selling of land slated to be redistributed. In mid-November President Abd Rabu Mansūr
Published : 16 December 2013
Somalia: Thousands of Displaced at Great Risk
Thousands of people are being forcibly evicted from makeshift camps in Mogadishu as the government presses ahead with plans to clean up the capital, Amnesty said in a briefing released today. Forced evictions have continued
Published : 13 December 2013
Israel/Palestine: The Pits for Prawer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu`s government has decided to drop the current draft of a controversial bill to resettle nearly 30,000 Bedouin living in the Negev [Naqab] into already recognized villages, the former minister overseeing the
Published : 12 December 2013
Egypt: From Slum to Residential Area - The Cairo Example
About half of the Egyptian capital is covered by what are known as `informal neighbourhoods`, in other words: slums. Western development aid organisations apply this term because poor newcomers have built houses there without the
Published : 12 December 2013
Israel-Romania Row over oPt Colonies
A diplomatic spat has erupted between Israel and Romania after Bucharest reportedly refused to allow Romanian construction workers to be employed in settlements being built in the occupied West Bank. The row, reported by Israel`s military
Published : 11 December 2013
3 States Sign Red-Dead Deal
Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority have signed a water sharing pact aimed at one day replenishing the rapidly drying Dead Sea. The agreement will build a pipeline to carry brine from a desalination plant at
Published : 10 December 2013
EU Parliament Approves Morocco Fisheries Deal
European lawmakers approved on Tuesday a controversial fisheries accord with Morocco, allowing EU boats to return to the North African country`s waters after being kicked out in 2011. About 120 boats, mostly Spanish, from 11 European
Published : 10 December 2013
Yemen: Fresh Land Mines
Geneva—Yemen should investigate the allegations that its Republican Guard forces laid thousands of antipersonnel landmines in 2011, Human Rights Watch said today at the opening of an annual meeting of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.
Published : 06 December 2013
WTO Conceding to Vital Food Subsidies?
BALI, Indonesia—A possible World Trade Organization deal is moving closer to approval after one of the biggest holdups on food subsidies was set aside following hours of global negotiations that went late into the night. Trade
Published : 06 December 2013
