The United Nations has recognized the need to scale up assistance in Sudan, according to the United Nations Integrated Transition Support Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS). The UN agencies in Sudan held a meeting Wednesday in Port Sudan, announcing they are jointly mounting efforts to scale up humanitarian assistance for over three million displaced by the conflict, the majority being women and children.
Lebanese officials were in a last-minute scramble on Wednesday to avoid leaving the crisis-hit country's central bank without a leader when governor Riad Salameh's 30-year tenure ends next week. The prospect of a vacuum at the top of the central bank has added to concerns about the further fragmentation of the state as it barrels towards a fifth year of financial turmoil.
A recent research paper released by the Jeddah-based Gulf Research Center has outlined two scenarios for the future of Egyptian-Iranian relations: the reestablishment and strengthening of diplomatic ties, or the continuation of the current state of estrangement while maintaining a policy of de-escalation.
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager when clashes erupted during an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The Israeli military said it was checking the report. The ministry, which identified the person killed as a 14-year-old, said clashes broke out overnight after Israeli troops entered the Palestinian city of Qalqiliya. Residents said a group of Palestinian youth threw stones at the soldiers operating in the area, Reuters reported.
When President Elias Hrawi assumed office, Lebanon was facing severe challenges, with a fragmented state and crumbling institutions. Despite the circumstances, then Foreign Minister Fares Boueiz rejected the approach to deal with Lebanon as a weak country and a quasi-state. He restored the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the glow it had when it was in the custody of a brilliant minister, Fouad Boutros, who is highly admired by Boueiz.