Tag: Al Jazeera

World powers press for Libya elections but disputes remain (Al Jazeera)

World powers have urged Libya to stick to a plan for holding presidential elections on December 24, adding that foreign mercenaries should also leave...

Qatar has no plan to normalise ties with Syria: Foreign minister (Al Jazeera)

Qatar is not considering normalising ties with Syria and hopes other countries will be discouraged from taking further steps with President Bashar al-Assad’s government,...

Western countries slam new Sudan army-led council (Al Jazeera)

Several Western countries have expressed grave concern over the decision by Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to appoint a new ruling body weeks...

UN rep slams Lebanon central bank chief over economic crisis (Kareem Chehayeb, Al Jazeera)

United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter on Friday blasted Lebanese Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh for not...

US journalist Danny Fenster jailed for 11 years in Myanmar (Al Jazeera)

Danny Fenster, a journalist at Myanmar’s Frontier magazine, has been jailed for 11 years by a court in the military-controlled country. The 37-year-old was detained...

Is nuclear power the way forward to combat the climate crisis? (Patricia Sabga, Al Jazeera)

As the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) wraps up and countries prepare to throw a lot more money towards decarbonising their economies, the...

Afghanistan: Mosque in Nangarhar province hit by blast (Al Jazeera)

An explosion has hit a mosque in the Spin Ghar area of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, killing at least three...

Rwandan YouTube star jailed for ‘humiliating’ state officials (Al Jazeera)

A Rwandan who used his YouTube channel to criticise the government has been sentenced to seven years in prison by a court in Kigali,...

How to address the sexual violence epidemic in Ethiopia? (Ndeye Sow, Al Jazeera)

Earlier this month, a joint report by the United Nations and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) exposed how Ethiopia’s brutal and rapidly expanding war...

US: Blinken to make first official visit to sub-Saharan Africa (Al Jazeera)

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa in an official capacity next week, visiting Kenya, Nigeria...

Turkmenistan’s dissidents fear crackdown in Turkish exile (Umar Farooq, Al Jazeera)

On a chilly afternoon in Istanbul’s Kadikoy neighbourhood, Nurmukhammed Annaev poked his head out of the window looking for fellow dissidents from Turkmenistan who...

Belarusian airline stops flying Middle East citizens from Turkey (Al Jazeera)

Belarusian state-owned airline Belavia has said it will stop allowing citizens of Iraq, Syria and Yemen to board flights from Turkey to Belarus at...

France hosts Libya conference ahead of polls in war-torn nation (Al Jazeera)

French President Emmanuel Macron hosts leaders and diplomats in Paris for an international conference on Friday aimed at ensuring Libya sticks to a plan...

Water scarcity reaches crisis point in northern Syria (Melissa Pawson, Al Jazeera)

For 71 of his 81 years, Abu Mohammad Sheikh Hussein has been farming the land in northeast Syria. These last two years have seen...

Suit accusing Hindu group of forced labour widens to 5 US states (Al Jazeera)

A federal lawsuit accusing a prominent Hindu organisation in the United States of trafficking workers from India and forcing them into labour at Hindu...

Pakistan hosts US, China, Russia to discuss Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

Pakistan has hosted senior diplomats from the United States, China and Russia in Islamabad to discuss the situation in neighbouring Afghanistan, where a deepening...